The phenomenon of audiobooks is growing in all parts of the world since it has always been an alternative to the traditional book. However, in certain countries it is not sold as it should.
This is the case of the United Kingdom, a country where the ebook market is very high, the second country according to the consumption of ebooks but the same is not the case with the audiobook market where it has grown but not so much.
Several publisher associations and even the director of Audible in the United Kingdom have announced that they will do their best to make this market grow more among the British, reaching the quotas that it is reaching. in the United States, where the last year has grown by 170%.
Despite the fact that many warn that sales and consumption is low, the truth is that Audible in the UK has a catalog of 250.000 titles, a wide catalog but that is not enough if we compare it with the catalog of ebooks that is consumed.
There is more demand from the British than supply from the publishers that work with the audiobook
On the other hand, demand is greater than this supply, so that users end up being stopped and forced to take other formats to enjoy the title. This is something that is intended to be corrected in the short term, but the growth of this market is still not assured. The Spanish case is very different from the British audiobook market where the result is the same but with different figures.
The problem is that many consider the audiobook as something below the book or ebook, a lesser way of reading, something that is wrong and that at the time happened with some people with the ebook.
Many claim that 2016 is the year of the audiobook, but personally I think It will be the next 2017 when it is truly the year of the audiobook where eReaders in addition to tablets and mobiles will be able to reproduce this content, now well Will it be just as popular with the Spanish and the British?