Thursday, November 30, 2017

You Know How People Start Reading Books And Don't Finish? They're No Better About Audiobooks

"New stats revealed this week by audiobooks.com showed how many (or few) of us get to the end of a range of audiobooks. They make tough reading for Craig Oliver, whose No 10 [Downing St] Brexit memoirs, Unleashing Demons, kept only 20% of readers rapt until the end. The oft-unfinished War and Peace retained about the same proportion through its 60-plus hours of narration (stats were not available for Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time)."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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