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Audible Pitches Publishers and Authors on a New Royalties Model

The Amazon subsidiary wants the industry to make more audiobooks available for bottomless consumption

In 2020, Audible introduced a new, lower-priced plan called Audible Plus.

Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg

Hello, and welcome back to Soundbite. This week we’re back as usual with the scoop on the latest pitch to publishers from Amazon.com Inc.’s Audible. As always, reach me through email, and if you haven’t yet subscribed to this newsletter, please do so here. Tell a friend to sign up, too.

But first, here are a couple stories I’m reading: