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Audiobooks

@audiobooks · New York, New York · joined 27 May 2010

A community for listeners, narrators, publishers, and more - all about audiobooks!

16 983Followers
9 042Following
12 840Posts total
1.6KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Audiobook professionals came together coast to coast for recent APA Socials in Los Angeles and New York City. It was great to see members connecting and spending time together outside the booth. Become an APA member, and we’ll see you at the next one! https://t.co/SOclVYJmvz
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Did you know there was a time when sighted readers couldn’t buy audiobooks? When the early Talking Book program began in the 1930s, publishers worried that recorded books would compete with print, so they made agreements requiring them to be available only to blind readers. 🧵 ht
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The general public will never know what we're going through over here. And that's probably for the best. Raise your hand if you play it cool while listening to an audiobook 🙋‍♀️ https://t.co/oa3eIQvpyM
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Do you know of other ways audiobooks are being used in the classroom? Let us know in the replies! https://t.co/UR95aZMJS6
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It's back-to-school season, and audiobooks are becoming one of the most versatile classroom tools. Teachers are using them to model fluent reading, open up books above grade level, support students with dyslexia and IEPs, and to get reluctant readers hooked. 🧵 https://t.co/wKUAPK
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@audiobooks He imagined audiobooks before most people even had electricity. That is incredible foresight! 3 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
More than 50 years before the Talking Book Program began bringing recorded books to blind readers, Edison was already imagining recorded sound as a way to make books more accessible. It's pretty incredible to think about how far that idea has come, and where we're headed next! 76 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Audiobook fun fact: Thomas Edison was imagining “talking books” almost as soon as he invented the phonograph. In an 1878 article about the future of his invention, Edison listed “phonographic books, which will speak to blind people” as one of its potential uses. 🧵 https://t.co/T
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Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views222this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %1.31%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.38%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post2229240.24×
Reach (views ÷ followers)1.31%3.62%0.36×
Engagement rate1.38%1.52%0.91×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

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21418 Sep
24921 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.57%11 Sep
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0.40%14 Sep
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1.73%16 Sep
2.80%18 Sep
0.40%21 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes74.1%20 in total
Reposts7.4%2 in total
Replies14.8%4 in total
Quotes3.7%1 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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