Penguin Random House to release audiobooks to send listeners to sleep

Sleep Tales collections aimed at listeners with chronic insomnia, thought to affect 10-15% of adults

Reader, I downloaded him: boom times for the literary long listen

Whether on Radio 4 or Amazon Audible, the appetite for classic works in audio form has never been greater

Listen up: why we can’t get enough of audiobooks

In this time-poor, podcast-friendly world, more of us are buying audiobooks. So how does this change our relationship with the written word?

Hear this! The best audiobooks of 2019 – so far

From Elisabeth Moss revisiting The Handmaid’s Tale to banter from Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer, here are this year’s must-listens

Mark Haddon on the magic of audiobooks: ‘I haven’t read a book properly until I’ve had it read to me’

Forget the snobs who treat the written word as superior. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime author explains why he’s a huge fan

Death of the novel is greatly exaggerated, say UK booksellers

Books industry shrugs off a 3% decline in fiction sales, with strong stories driving recent growth in non-fiction

New chapter? UK print book sales fall while audiobooks surge 43%

Publishers hit by surprise 5.4% fall in 2018 – but warn against proclaiming terminal decline

Stan Lee’s ‘first novel for adults’ to be published this autumn

Spider-Man and X-Men creator’s teenaged-superhero story A Trick of the Light also to be released this week as audiobook

Which devices play Audible audiobooks but can’t surf the web?

Amber wants her son to be able play Audible stories but does not want him to have internet access

Narrator of 133-hour audiobook proclaims boom in ‘evolving art’

Edoardo Ballerini – who has recorded more than 250 titles – says audiobooks are an art form in their own right

Dream job: the writer paid to send millions to sleep

With sleep problems on the rise, Phoebe Smith was tasked with writing stories deliberately designed to help people nod off – with the help of Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 2018 review: the new standard

Refined design, water resistance and good screen makes latest e-reader about as good as a single-use device gets

Easy listening: the rise of the audiobook

We’re downloading more audiobooks than ever. What do they bring to our relationship with stories, and can they really replace the pleasure of reading?

Listen and weep: ‘Audiobooks outdo films in emotional engagement’

UCL study backed by Audible finds unconscious responses to the same book scenes, witnessed in adaptations across different media, are strongest in the auditory format

Audio is publishing’s new star as sales soar across genres

Top thriller writer opts to publish solely in spoken-word format as demand rises