{
  "id": 3793514,
  "title": "What Audible Learned About 7,000 Listeners From Its NYC Bookless Bookstore: ‘How Do We Take Something Invisible and Make It Tangible?’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/what-audible-learned-about-7-000-listeners-from-its-nyc-bookless",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-27T18:32:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/audible-book-store-story-house-popup-nyc-1236845338/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "More than half of Americans aged 18 and older, an estimated 157 million people, have listened to an audiobook, according to the Audio Publishers Association. Back in May, Audible likely added a few more to the fold with its Story House experience, which the Amazon-owned audiobook company proclaimed to be the first ever “bookless bookstore.” […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}