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Audiobooks is biggest growth. NOT a replacement for ebooks and really nothing to do with them. They have existed since 1899 (records) and in Hungary or Austria (I think) from before 1914 as "streaming" (really like broadcast radio but on wires) over the phone as audio.
Drivers, cyclists, joggers, gym sessions etc fuels the demand for Audio books. Originally it was mostly blind or poor sight or illiterate users.
My only interest is making audio books because I only go out shopping or visiting nearby and I don't drive long distances, cycle, jog or gym. I prefer reading to audio books.
eBooks are not going to either dominate or go away.
We still have Radio (nearly 100 years of Public Broadcast), physical copies of recorded sound (over 120 years), TV (since 1936), retail physical copies of recorded video (nearly 50 years, earlier domestic versions of movie film was retailed to rich people).
Internet, Streaming etc hasn't and won't kill them.
Note almost every mainstream streaming video service except YouTube is running at a real loss to try and get customers from Disc, Satellite Pay TV and Cable Pay TV. It costs 1,000 times to a 100,000 less to run a Satellite TV channel than stream. YouTube makes a profit because much content is smaller, poorer quality and funding from stealing personal data and selling adverts (It's Google).
Amazon's Video is sofa change compare to their Data Hosting (AWS profits). Even Amazon's entire retail dwarfs their video which is dwarfed now by AWS.
Netflix, like Uber (loses money per ride, makes money from data captured) is based on fantasy economics and collecting personal data. Both hope to put up the price when the opposition is gone, except now Netflix has streaming competitors.
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