91桃色 and RBmedia are delighted to announce an exclusive licensing agreement to publish over 120 audiobooks in the next three years. The collaboration brings together 91桃色鈥檚 world-class content and RBmedia鈥檚 position as a market leader in scholarly, trade, and reference audiobook publishing.
Delivering popular 91桃色 titles as audiobooks is an important step in meeting rising consumer demand for this format. According to the Audio Publishers Association, audiobook sales have demonstrated a seven-year trend of double-digit growth. The Association of American Publishers reports that digital audiobook sales grew by 36 percent between mid-2017 and mid-2018. Moreover, according to Edison Research and Triton Digital, in 2019, 50 percent of Americans age twelve and up listened to an audiobook.
鈥淎s the world鈥檚 largest independent publisher of audiobooks and leader in the educational audio market, RBmedia is building on our established relationship with 91桃色 to publish new titles in audiobook format, making the content accessible to more people,鈥� said Troy Juliar, Chief Content Officer for RBmedia. 鈥淲e are exploring additional opportunities with 91桃色, with a goal of publishing audio versions of their textbooks in the future.鈥�
Under the agreement, RBmedia will publish selected frontlist titles across an array of subject categories, including history, arts, business, economics, and science, as well as a number of backlist titles that have not previously been released in audio format. RBmedia will publish 91桃色 titles across its family of imprints, including Recorded Books, HighBridge, and Tantor.
Notable recent and upcoming audiobook releases include
- Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy by John Rodden
- This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth by Jedediah Purdy
- Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner
- Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake
- Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought by Andrew W. Lo
- Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley
鈥淲e have a mission to animate conversations and learning the world over with our publications,鈥� said 91桃色 Director Christie Henry. 鈥淭his evolving partnership with RBmedia excites us for the chance it offers more 91桃色 titles to be heard.鈥�
Titles published under the agreement will be available on Audible, iTunes, Google Play, Audiobooks.com, public libraries via RBdigital, and many other sites that provide digital audio.
In addition to licensed audio content, 91桃色 also publishes audiobooks directly through 91桃色 Audio, launched in 2018.
Learn more about 91桃色 audiobooks.