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Their audience is limited enough that an audiobook with a human narrator might not be feasible, and their simple goal of delivering information wouldn’t necessarily require a producer and editor. narrator recites them with a solemnity better suited to The 9/11 Commission Report.īut books like When Your Baby Won’t Stop Crying by Tonja Krautter are ideal candidates for A.I. Similarly, even when the anecdotes in 101 Fascinating Hockey Facts are meant to be amusing, the A.I. Like fiction, narrative nonfiction that relies on scenes with dialog, such as a biography of the founder of the National Film Board of Canada, runs into the problem of A.I. There are a handful of nonfiction books (many of them Canadian, for some reason) in Apple’s A.I.-narrated stable. We’ll keep you posted if we hear any more about the potential service.However, nonfiction is another story.

An Audible Premium Plus is priced at $14.95 for Plus access as well as a credit for a new book each month. Potential competitor Amazon’s Audible offers credits for audiobooks for a monthly fee along with a selection of “Audible Plus” titles that do not require credits.Īudible Plus subscriptions start at $7.95 for a small selection of audiobooks sans new titles. However, Apple already offers an ebooks service that sells audiobook versions, so an audiobooks subscription service would be a logical next offering from the Cupertino firm. The article makes no mention of an audiobooks service other than the one line, so it’s not clear where The Economist got its information nor what such a service from Apple may look like. There is talk of an audiobooks service later this year. In the past couple of years Apple has made smaller media bets including Arcade, a subscription gaming package, News+, a publishing bundle, and Fitness+, which offers video aerobics classes.

While The Economist article covers all of Apple’s existing services, such as Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Fitness, Apple Arcade, and others, the article also makes a one-line mention of a possible audiobooks service. A new report from The Economist (via 9to5Mac) indicates Apple could expand its services offerings during 2022 to include an audiobook subscription service.