Around 27 million audiobooks were purchased in the UK last year – more than four times as many as were sold just a decade ago That demand is leading many of the world's tech giants to invest heavily in the industry 🖋️ Tom Knowles
, listeners will notice that the famous documentarian’s voice becomes noticeably raspier. This wasn’t from a cold, but an ill-advisedly heavy bout of karaoke one night during the week-long recording.
“People would dismiss them, saying, ‘Oh, audiobooks are for the blind,’” says Willow Nash, who has recordedin her career, including by authors such as Jill Mansell, M. C. Beaton and Eva Ibbotson. Smartphones and user-friendly digital platforms such as Audible changed all that. Audiobooks were suddenly both cheaper and freed from the restrictions of a long car journey or an afternoon at home. People could listen on a dog walk, while doing household chores, or commuting into work.
For the world’s biggest publishers, that appetite increasingly means no book is off limits, regardless of genre or complexity. Benedict Cumberbatch, for example, was hired by Penguin Random House in 2018 to narrate Carlo Rovelli’sBenedict Cumberbatch narrated“In terms of what the publishing industry is putting into audio now, it’s not just more content, but a much broader range,” says Lennon.
It was, of course, one particular children’s novel that led millions to experience their first taste of the pleasures of audiobooks. For many in the UK, Stephen Fry’s narration of the Harry Potter books was their go-to choice for a long car journey, day off sick from school, or as they fell asleep. Yet the demand for narrators is so high that some actors are being asked to start recording books before they have even finished reading them. Nash, who has been narrating audiobooks for 20 years, says she is normally given a maximum of a week to read the novel before heading into the recording studio.
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