But that’s just general fiction in some genres, it’s projected that audiobooks sold through Audible account for much more than that. Audiobooks are the fastest growing form of book consumption: in 2021 alone, fiction audiobooks accounted for around 65% of book sales. Just as Amazon cornered the ebook market with its Kindle devices long before any competitors caught on to the coming digital book revolution, they’ve staked a huge claim on audiobooks with Audible. While those who backed the Kickstarter will receive the books straight from Dragonsteel, Sanderson will publish them for the masses at a later date.īut one place you won’t see any of Sanderson’s Secret Projects for now is Audible, the audiobook giant run by Amazon due to their “unconscionable” pay rates, which he calls out as “shameful behavior” that is “squeezing indie authors to death.”īrandon Sanderson calls out Audible: “It’s a good company doing bad things” Sanderson hit on a lot of this year’s highlights during his yearly State of the Sanderson blog post, focusing on the Kickstarter and the Secret Project book releases. In short, robots designed for optimum productivity have nightmares about this guy. He also published the final novel of Mistborn Era Two, The Lost Metal, and has been hard at work on the highly-anticipated fifth book of The Stormlight Archive. Sanderson made headlines earlier in the year when he revealed that he’d written five extra books in secret during the pandemic, and launched what would go on to become the most successful Kickstarter campaign in the platform’s history to publish four of those so-called Secret Projects through his own company, Dragonsteel Books.
It’s been a pretty big year for Brandon Sanderson, the bestselling author of the Cosmere novel universe as well as a slew of other fantasy and science fiction books.
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