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From 2023 it has been awarded as Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording. [2] Poetry reading now has its own Grammy category, Best Spoken Word Poetry Album. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for a recording released in the previous year.
On ACX, a producer is anyone who can deliver or help deliver a retail ready audiobook. This group includes recording studios, narrators, audio engineers and audiobook editors. Rights holders include anyone who owns the audio rights to a book: authors, narrators, literary agents, publishers, etc. [6] [7] [8]
Recorded Books was acquired by Haights Cross Communications in December 1999, where Recorded Books operated as a division of that company. [10] In 2002, Haights Cross acquired Audio Adventures, a brand established in the truck stop market to tie in with 650 rental kiosks in truck stop centers Recorded Books previously had. [10]
Simply Audiobooks is a privately held e-commerce company that offers audiobooks for rental, downloading, and sale. Their primary product line is a subscription-based rent-by-mail model for books on CD, similar to Netflix's DVD-by-mail model.
An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud. A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements. Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops since the 1930s.
When it was organized in April 2017 [7] and became known as RBMedia, its imprints included Recorded Books, HighBridge Audio, Tantor Media, ChristianAudio, Gildan Media, W.F. Howes (UK), and Wavesound (Australia). [8] It would sell or distribute titles directly to customers through Audiobooks.com, libraries, and resellers such as Audible. [9]
Chirp was launched in 2019, and is owned and operated by the founders of BookBub, an online book discovery service. [5] [6] Although Chirp was launched more recently, BookBub and its parent company Pubmark Inc. have been around since 2012, when it was founded by Josh Schanker and Nicholas Ciarelli.