based on data from APA members - projected to cover the entire U.S. market; 26 publishers provided data for 2020 sales figures
Supplementary notes
*The source noted that over 71 thousand audiobook titles were published in 2020, and close to 74 thousand were published in 20201, but did not provide a specific figure for either year.
Figures prior to 2021 come from previous releases.
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Number of audiobooks published in the U.S. 2007-2021
In 2021, almost ** thousand audiobook titles were published in the United States, up from ** thousand in 2020. The source did not provide a precise figure for the number of titles published in 2021 but did report that the number had grown by six percent year over year. The data came from ** publishers in 2020, including Hachette Audio, Audible Inc. and HarperCollins to name but a few.
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