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In the store, audiobook tablets called \u201cstory tiles\u201d line the shelves, ready to be inserted into a player for listening through headphones.<\/p>\n
Each tile plays a short excerpt and the full title can be accessed on the Audible app.<\/p>\n
The platform, which dominates the audiobook market, offers paid subscriptions, individual purchases and free access to some titles for Amazon account holders.<\/p>\n
A customer shops at the Audible Story House in New York on April 30. Photo \/ AFP<\/p>\n
The venue also has a room lined with speakers for headphone-free listening, as well as a \u201cListening Bar\u201d where \u201cStory Tenders\u201d will \u201cguide attendees in finding the perfect audiobook for their tastes and interest\u201d, according to the press release.<\/p>\n
The space aims to reflect the fast-growing popularity of the format as well as the \u201cshift toward offline experiences and real-world connection\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAudible Story House taps into the nostalgia and community feel of book culture while bringing it fully into the present,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the store, audiobook tablets called \u201cstory tiles\u201d line the shelves, ready to be inserted into a player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8239,194377,59460,210084,21715,2108,210083,14664,23852,22189,156,1888,158511,4999,13313,78,2454,130,117,111,139,69,1864,2680,1326,1305,29756,6923,2173],"class_list":["post-408344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-american","tag-audible","tag-audiobook","tag-audioonly","tag-billed","tag-book","tag-bookless","tag-bookstore","tag-consumers","tag-embracing","tag-entertainment","tag-first","tag-format","tag-friday","tag-giant","tag-in","tag-industry","tag-more","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opened","tag-opens","tag-shop","tag-show","tag-statistics","tag-what","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}