Amazon is also enhancing its Audible platform . This not only means new products and pricing, but also new avenues for the service. Audible will not only offer audiobooks from other companies but will also create its own.
That's why Audible and Amazon have joined forces with Bloomsbury and the UK's National Archives to create audio archives of important documents and letters from the past two centuries.
Audible will create a series of audio recordings that will be available through this popular service. These recordings will contain letters that Churchill himself wrote requesting aid from the United States, documents written by the British police about the Jack the Ripper case, and contemporary accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. These historical moments will be narrated and recounted by some of the most famous figures of the time, lending their voices to these recordings.
Audiobooks created by Audible will recreate real events that were fictitious as Jack the Ripper
They aren't exactly high-quality audiobooks, nor will they be a variation of best-selling publishing formats, but they are a big step towards the creation of a new publishing imprint by Amazon and Audible that focuses on audiobooks.
It seems audiobooks are all the rage, a format not unlike ebooks, though it offers the advantage of being playable anywhere without needing a device, unlike ebooks. In any case, it seems Amazon doesn't want to miss out on this trend, and Audible and these audiobooks won't be the only products Bezos's company offers in this format, which is currently generating more revenue than the ebook market . But will this trend become the norm? What new features will Audible bring?