What attracts you to audiobooks, both as a listener and a writer?Īs a listener, there are many things I appreciate about audiobooks especially since I’ve been having difficulty concentrating on print books. Chu chatted with Friday Things about how you even write an audiobook, escapism under late-stage capitalism and K-pop fandom. Just ask Toronto author Lily Chu, whose new Audible Original Audiobook, The Comeback, dropped last week. And of course, the industry has taken notice of this trend, with both traditional publishing houses and independent audiobook publishers commissioning audio-first titles. Instead, the opposite happened-readers turned to audiobooks to reduce their screentime, and as a source of immersive escapism, which helps explain why romance was one of the most popular and fastest-growing genres alongside self-help and science fiction. Audiobooks are becoming more and more popular last year saw the 10th straight year of double-digit growth in audiobook revenue (in the U.S., the format generated $1.6 billion in revenue), despite fears that the pandemic would lead to a decline, since fewer people were commuting.
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