Audiobooks market and consumer's trends - (Marketing)
Audiobooks were created in 1932 as a way of addressing the vision impaired population in the United States. However, it has only been until recent years that this activity is becoming more widely adopted by the global population transitioning in the last decades from books-on-tapes and compact disks, to the current audiobooks platforms available online. These changes in the way consumers approach audiobooks are resulting in a new whole group of trends as the audiobooks market is estimated to grow from $2,7 USD billion in 2019 to $15 USD billion by 2027 (Grand view research, 2020). Therefore, companies have a growing interest to provide consumers with their ideal service which also impacts the trends that audiobook consumers adopt as a new way of learning and entertaining. Recent conditions due to the global pandemic and spread of the covid-19 virus have clearly impacted the consumption trends of all the population around the world. Being lockdowns one of the main measures taken by go