For a long time, the phenomenon of audiobooks has been following in the footsteps of ebooks as an alternative to traditional books. However, sales in the countries where the ebook stood out were not very significant, until now.
Various economic reports indicate that in the United States, the audiobook market has grown by about 50% compared to last year. This is important because the United States always has a market that indicates what will happen in many countries such as the United Kingdom or Spain. So it looks like we'll be hearing more about audiobooks in the coming months.
Sales of audiobooks have skyrocketed and even Flat rates from audiobooks like Audible have not only taken off but they are also being maintained when the traditional flat rates of ebooks like Scribd or the Oyster itself that disappeared do not.
Rise of Audiobooks Causes Americans to Read More Titles Each Year
The future of audiobooks is pretty good, to the point that many devices they are incorporating the function of listening to audio files in eReaders, a function that was disappearing in the latest models of the most famous eReaders.
This market trend has not ended and will continue to grow, although not much more since the same study states that Americans have gone from reading 5 audiobooks a year to about 8 audiobooks a year, being able to increase but not much more despite the fact that the number of devices capable of playing audiobooks is not the same as years ago, it is greater. The increase in devices favors the use of these formats, but rather it is the publicity they are receiving that drives US users to use it. This makes me wonder if it will really work the same in Spain What do you think?