Audiobook Sales Rose 13% in 2024, to $2.2 Billion

Publisher's Weekly ^ | Jun 02, 2025 | Jim Milliot

[ProgressingAmerica]

Audiobook sales returned to a double-digit growth rate in 2024, increasing 13% over 2023, according to the just-released Audio Publishers Association Sales Survey. After a number of years of sales growing at a rate of at least 10% annually, sales rose 9% in 2023. Last year, total sales from the APA members who supply data increased to $2.22 billion; the bump was driven, unsurprisingly, by digital audio, which had a 14% sales increase and accounted for 99% of revenue. The

[Dr. Sivana]

Mark Steyn has dozens of well selected audiobooks available with Steyn Club membership. He is an exceptional reader.

[SunkenCiv]

• New audiobook release: The Pioneer Mothers of America, Volume 1 [09/24/2025]
• New audiobook release: Economic Sophisms, by Frederic Bastiat [09/21/2025]
• New audiobook release: An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Noah Webster) [09/01/2025]
• New audiobook release: The autobiography of Calvin Coolidge [07/30/2025]
• The Internet Archive just became an official U.S. federal library [07/26/2025]
• The Life of Washington, by John Marshall (free audio book) [05/31/2025]
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, free open source audiobook [05/20/2025]
• The Journal of Lewis and Clarke, free open source audiobook [05/19/2025]
• Making an audio book from a published book [05/16/2025]
• New audiobook release: Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet, by Roberts Vaux [05/10/2025]
• New audiobook release: Propaganda, by Edward Bernays [04/24/2025]
• New audiobook release: Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence [01/29/2025]
• New audiobook release: John Hancock: The Picturesque Patriot [01/12/2025]
• Robert's Rules of Order (free audio book) [01/11/2025]
• New audiobook release: Patrick Henry; life, correspondence and speeches, by W.W. Henry [08/22/2024]
• New audiobook release: Elementary catechism on the Constitution of the United States: for the use of schools [08/20/2024]
• New audiobook release: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, by Ludwig von Mises [08/10/2024]
• New audiobook release: Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Vol 1, by William Cabell Bruce [07/25/2024]
• New audiobook release: The Use of Knowledge in Society, by Friedrich Hayek [06/25/2024]
• New audiobook release: The Capture of Fort William and Mary [06/04/2024]
• New audiobook release: A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity [05/26/2024]
• New audiobook release: The Life of Frederick William von Steuben [04/10/2024]
• New audiobook release: America's Retreat from Victory; The Story of George Catlett Marshall, by Sen. Joe McCarthy [02/13/2024]
• If there was a free, public domain audio book written by Joseph McCarthy, would you listen to it? [12/30/2023]
• New audiobook release: The American Newspaper [11/29/2023]
• New audiobook release: Reflections on the rise, progress, and probable consequences of the present contentions with the colonies [10/26/2023]
• New audiobook release: Benjamin Franklin (biography) [10/22/2023]
• New audiobook release: The Life and Times of Joseph Warren [10/13/2023]
• New audiobook release: An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes [08/04/2023]
• The Life of Columbus [05/27/2023]
• The American Crisis aka "The Crisis" (audio) [04/04/2023]
• Audiobook Sales Up for 10th Straight Year [03/04/2023]
• New audiobook release: Children's book of patriotic stories: The spirit of '76 by Dickinson and Dickinson [03/03/2023]
• Audio Apps for iPhone [01/29/2023]
• New audiobook release: Anti-slavery in America from the Introduction of African Slaves to the Prohibition of the Slave Trade (1619-1808) [01/02/2023]
• New audiobook release: What is Industrial Democracy? [11/27/2022]
• Woodward releasing audiobook with hours of Trump interviews [10/18/2022]
• The damage we did, and how we fixed it, and a bright conclusion [10/05/2022]
• New audiobook release: The History of the Fabian Society (FReeper audiobook) [09/28/2022]
• Which Founding Father is the most popular who isn't George Washington, isn't Benamin Franklin, isn't Thomas Jefferson, and isn't George Washington? [08/22/2022]
• Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, Volume I, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson [07/13/2022]
• Bob Woodward says he plans to release a new audiobook with '9 hours of Trump interviews' that 'we have never heard before' [06/08/2022]
• The Federalist Papers (version 2) free open source audiobook [04/21/2022]
• The Youth of Washington: Told in the Form of an Autobiography (new release) [02/17/2022]
• New audiobook: Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life [10/03/2021]
• New audiobook: Anti-slavery in America (1619-1808) [09/12/2021]
• The Law, by Frédéric Bastiat (Audio) [05/22/2021]
• Why not accept money for your audiobooks? Why give them away for free? [02/28/2021]
• Happy Birthday, General Washington [02/22/2021]
• Happy Birthday, Dr. Franklin [01/17/2021]
• So then don't produce audio that's commercially viable. Problem solved. [11/11/2019]
• Arguing with Liberals [06/22/2019]
• Nearly one-in-five Americans now listen to audiobooks [03/16/2018]
• The Columbian Orator, audiobook edition [08/26/2016]
• Audiobook: Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 [07/04/2014]
• Need Help Furthering My Education(Vanity) [12/11/2012]
• Going Rogue Audiobook narrated by Sarah Palin [11/30/2009]
• Need Help Choosing an Audiobook for Long Trip - Vanity [03/27/2009]
• Horror: Theodicy (2:16) [03/11/2009]
• Horror: Theodicy (2:15) [02/16/2009]

[ProgressingAmerica]

Jamestown1630, (and others in case there is interest)

For what it is worth, a group of us have been working for years now to transform old works into audio so that it may increase convenience and efficiency. If I have at some point mentioned this to you before I mean nothing by it but I do not remember seeing this username at many times. I do try to list the works we finish all under the key word freeperbookclub, as well as others I find of a similar nature.

https://freerepublic.com/tag/freeperbookclub/index?tab=articles

Our more popular works include a biography of John Hancock, a bio of Patrick Henry, and Mercy Otis Warren’s 3 volume set cataloging the history of the American Revolution.

Additionally there is two recorded audio versions of the Federalist Papers, and works by really amazing authors such as Bastiat, Hayek, Mises, President Calvin Coolidge, several works about Ben Franklin, the papers of Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams, the Journal of Lewis and Clarke, and Christopher Columbus.

All is in the public domain.(and all of the texts are also directly linked if needed)

[Owen]

It has been understood for some time now that audiobooks damage writer income.

The conversion to audio is paid for, by Audiobooks, to the writer, but the problem is that speech-to-text converters are so easy. The number of copies of the book splashed across the internet explodes, and they don’t get paid for.

[PeterPrinciple]

It has been understood for some time now that audiobooks damage writer income.

The conversion to audio is paid for, by Audiobooks, to the writer, but the problem is that speech-to-text converters are so easy. The number of copies of the book splashed across the internet explodes, and they don’t get paid for.

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There was a time when artists created and wrote for reasons other than money. Maybe we will go back to that time. It has it’s pros and cons.

[Dr. Sivana]

Major audiobook vendors (eg Recorded Books, Blackstone) hire professional readers. AI might eventually get a chunk of that, but those who listen to AI narrated videos, even with an impersonatioj voice employed, find it tiring.

[Owen]

Nod, I was referring mostly to lost text sales because unauthorized text copies proliferate from voice-to-text conversions.

[Jamestown1630]

Thanks for this. Please add me to your ping list if you have one.