Audio

Apple has updated its iOS GarageBand app to add support for the iPhone and iPod touch. Originally launched alongside the iPad 2, the app allows users to create and record their own songs using a selection of virtual instruments. Less experienced musicians can take advantage of ‘smart instruments’ which allow them to create songs from…

BBC comedy favourites are coming to CD this winter courtesy of audiobook publishers AudioGO. The company is releasing a selection of radio comedy next month including I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, Humphrey Lyttelton Concert. The one-off special features an all-star cast of friends and admirers from the world of music, including Elkie Brooks, Stacey…

AudioGO – the company which acquired BBC Audiobooks – is publishing two ‘lost’ Hercule Poirot stories which were discovered in 2004 within a ‘treasure trove’ of notebooks unearthed at Agatha Christie’s family home, Greenway.

Library users in the UK will soon be able to enjoy digital versions of their favourite magazines thanks to a partnership between audiobook distributer Recorded Books and digital mag retailer Zinio. The two companies will make available a ‘Zinio for Libraries’ service which gives patrons access to magazines via their library card. The service will…

News of rising ebook sales continues with the revelation that the format now accounts for 5% of Hachette UK’s trade sales and has quadrupled in the first quarter of 2011. Hachette’s figures follow news that Penguin’s digital sales doubled in 2011 and data from the Publishers Association which suggests the value of ebook and audiobook…