Audible lets listeners talk to characters in original titles
The feature starts with Audible Original titles and rolls out first to US and UK readers
This one's a watch, not a worry — for now it's limited to Audible Originals, not your backlist or your frontlist. But "interactive experience with a character outside of a book's narrative" is a phrase worth sitting with. If this expands beyond Originals, the question becomes whose voice that character is using, and whether you had any say.
Why it matters to you: It's a narrow rollout right now, but it's worth watching whether Audible extends this kind of character interaction beyond Original titles to the wider catalog.
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- You can now “talk” to characters in Audiblejanefriedman.com
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