As digital experiences continue to take over professional and personal lives and multitasking becomes the new normal, people are embracing audiobooks to not lose a grip on their reading habit. Narrators tell us what goes into the making of a compelling audiobook and listeners share what persuades them to ‘read’ this way
The Indian trade book market, excluding educational titles, is estimated to be anywhere between $500 million to $1 billion. Image for representation: iStock
When Shilajit Mitra, an avid reader who is fond of his hardcovers and Kindle, first discovered audiobooks, he found the experience was “like listening to an audio play or to a sitcom.” The narrator’s voice was engaging, the background sound effects had dramatic impact, and the episodic transitions between different parts of the book and characters in the story were seamless. “It helped me finish heavy books, including some that I had procrastinated on reading since my college days,” he shares. Among them was Bertrand Russell’s 900-and-something-pages-long ‘A History of Western Philosophy’.
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