Audien Reveals Top 10 Audiobook Rankings for July 'Audien Library'

[Audien Library July Usage Metrics]

Audion Sound Co., Ltd.'s audiobook service 'Audion Library' revealed the TOP 10 popular audiobooks in July.

The top 10 most popular audiobooks on the 'Audion Library' app throughout July were ▲The Nature of Money ▲12 Medicines That Saved Humanity ▲Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People ▲A Useful Human ▲Complete Happiness ▲The Dignity of Words ▲The Night the World Stopped 2 ▲To Kill a Mockingbird ▲Became Happy After Meeting Psychology ▲The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck. This shows that audiobook users are interested in various fields including interpersonal relationships, economics & management, and psychology, in addition to novels.

Since the spread of COVID-19, audiobook usage has surged rapidly, and libraries, public offices, and companies are continuously expanding audiobook services. Looking at the user statistics of the 'Audion Library' app, the number of users has increased sixfold compared to the previous year, which is also notable.

Considering this gradually expanding demand, the service plans to provide content reflecting the usage status of newly released and popular books with high usage rates. Starting from the second half of this year, Audion plans to increase the number of self-produced and distributed titles to more than 200 per month.

Audion Sound Co., Ltd. (CEO Kim Yong-ho) has been providing audiobooks to about 760 B2B institutions (public libraries, universities, companies, government agencies, special institutions, etc.) for 15 years. Recently, through agreements with more than 10 new libraries including Daegu Dong-gu Sincheon Library and Beomeo Library, the company is expanding services that allow library users to access audiobooks for free.

Additionally, opportunities to experience audiobooks are being expanded through projects such as 'Jeju Healing Forest' for meditation and healing, the 'Subtle Book Sound' project for the silver generation, and 'Audiobook Kiosks and Experience Spaces' available in library lobbies.

In fact, when searching for nearby libraries through the ‘Audion Library’ app, anyone with an ID from the affiliated library can enjoy various audiobooks from Audion for free.

Kwon Oh-jun, director in charge of audio content and audiobook distribution, stated, "Recently, the influx of audiobook users through Audion Library has increased sharply, and usage across various fields has been shown through Audion Library." He added, "We will continue to do our best to quickly supply and distribute a large quantity and quality of audiobooks in various fields such as novels, humanities and social sciences, economics and management, poetry, and essays to promote users' reading."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.