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Pirate versions of bestselling books are swamping YouTube. Barbara Cartland’s voice will be cloned for her audiobooks. And audiobook giants are embracing AI voices.
Look for an in-person or online book group or read-along, and make reading social.
New year’s reading resolutions are a fun way to take your reading seriously. Here are some ideas – from no phones before bed, to deep diving into one author’s work.
Print books embody culture. We see it in social media trends for annotating books, community publishing and wartime destruction of books spanning the Nazis to Gaza.
Whether reading a book or listening to a podcast, the goal is the same: understanding. But these activities support comprehension in different ways.
Lots of younger people play audiobooks and podcasts at faster speeds. The benefits are obvious, but researchers are uncovering downsides.
New, tech-driven developments, including new imprints by Microsoft and BookTok’s ByteDance, promise to make book publishing faster and more efficient. But what’s lost in the process?
Audiobooks can develop children’s listening skills, expand their vocabulary and encourage independent learning.
Over a third of Australians read audiobooks. Spotify’s audiobook offering means more choices for listeners – but those who make both music and books are concerned about the impact on incomes.
It turns out that identifying as a reader can be more about community, wealth and gender than how much someone actually reads.
What AI-narrated audiobooks tell us about reading and big tech.
Erotica and pornography are huge in the audio space, with stories about intimate, emotionally-charged sexual encounters designed to create a sense of closeness between speakers and listeners.
Listening-as-reading is a growing segment of the publishing market. Audiobooks revive ancient ways of storytelling and might get more people excited about books.
Whether you’re home sick or sick of being at home, our 13 experts have picked excellent things you can read, watch, look at or listen to.
They’re associated with fake news and celebrity porn videos but there are some unexpected upsides to these slippery clips.
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ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer in English, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Researcher, English and Writing, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer, Literary Studies and Creative Writing, Monash University
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, The University of Queensland
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Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Communications Studies, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University