Barbara Knabe Reads the Audible Compass

The French like a good laugh; Italians love adventure; and Germans want to know whodunit.Those are key findings of the Audible Compass, an annual review of listening habits commissioned last July by the world’s largest audiobook retailer.Audible’s Barbara Knabe tells Christopher Kenneally that mysteries, thrillers, fantasy, and romance are all popular across the European Union.Market differences in individual countries, however, lend support to a basic rule that, “audiobook publishing is not a one size fits all.”