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Current conditions & future forecasts for digital downloads in libraries, both eBook & audiobook, hold interest for all who are trying to read the tea leaves in the bottom of the library budget cup. OverDrive posted some interesting numbers on their blog after surveying 5,000 users in June 2010: ~ 74% of users are female, [...]

Let the industry know the facts about public library use of audiobooks. Here’s a chance for public librarians to let the Audio Publishers Association know about your purchase and use of both physical and downloaded materials for your patrons. Follow this link  <http://www.readersurvey.com/surveys/10002-lib.htm >to a detailed survey that will allow the APA to compile your [...]

Is this the tipping point? With over 100 surveys tallied, there seems to be a pretty clear 50-50 split between those who are listening to audiobook downloads and those who want to hold on to the physical format. As the survey allowed multiple answers, the charts below don’t show that there were the exact same [...]

Audiobooks as a physical format: dead or alive? BookScan reports a 19% drop in the purchase of audiobooks in 2009. A recent Publishers Weekly article by Jim Milliot showed that physical sales of audiobooks took a hard hit, while print format sales had only a mild drop in the poor economic climate. Was this a [...]