Best audiobook apps in 2024: Audible isn’t your only choice

Audiobooks are the fastest-growing area in book publishing, worth $5.3 billion in 2023, and growth over the next seven years is expected to reach $35 billion by 2030. The audiobook market has steadily risen as the next frontier for writers and publishing houses. What once was thought to have diminished, after “books on tape” seemed obsolete, has actually seen a year-over-year increase over the past 11 years, with a compounded resurgence during the COVID-19 pandemic.