More than 45 percent of American adults responding to recent annual surveys now claim to have listened to an audiobook at some point in their lives, a figure which can be expected to grow as new titles become available and more consumers experiment with alternatives to physical books. Data on audiobook usage by gender reveals that women are more likely to engage with the format than men, and listeners tend to hail from urban areas rather than suburban and rural communities. dollars or more, and breakdowns by age show that 50 percent of listeners are under 50 years old.
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The portable nature of audiobooks is indeed one of the format’s main selling points and appeals in particular to users who are frequently on the move and have less time for conventional book reading.Īudiobook listeners tend to be high earners – the audiobook listening population in the United States is comprised mainly of those with an annual salary of 75 thousand U.S. The pandemic also impacted where and how consumers listen, with the home clearly the preferred location for listening to audiobooks in 2020, though this is liable to change as commuting via public transport or car once again becomes the norm. However, as the pandemic stretched into 2021, there is a chance that the surge in listenership could become more sustained. This has partially been attributed to the effect of stay-at-home orders on media consumption during the COVID-19 outbreak.
The average number of audiobooks listened to over a 12-month period is also on the up and grew sharply between 20. adults who reported listening to an audiobook in the last year is now close to double the percentage recorded in 2011.
At the same time, audiobook consumption is rising, with the latest figures showing that the share of U.S. The growing demand for audiobooks is evidenced by the number of audiobook titles published each year, which has increased tenfold over the last decade.
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