From Cookie Monster to Colleen Hoover and Coca-Cola to Comic Strips: Pop Culture in Audiobooks
Pop culture. It influences what we do, eat, wear, buy, read, watch, think, dream, and value. Some of the “noise”…
Jason Matos
Jason Matos is the Manager of NOOK Merchandising Strategy—which means he works on all things NOOK, eBook and B&N Audiobooks for BN.com and the B&N NOOK App. He studied Video Production at Ithaca College (with a minor in writing). Instead of a career as a Radio DJ he worked at a record store for a number of years (where at times it did feel like the movie Empire Records). A couple years after he started working at Barnes & Noble, just before NOOK Color was released (2010) and he helped produce many of the first kids digital picture books. A lover of cookies (without raisins), craft beer, and vinyl records he can often be found reading (or listening to) memoirs, books about music, and LGBTQIA+ stories.
The Best of the Best: 2024 Audie Award Winners
Who needs the Oscars when we have the Audies? For the past 29 years, the Audio Publishers Association has presented…
35 Celebrity Memoirs Narrated by the Stars Themselves
Going behind the scenes of any life to understand it better is the lure of any memoir, but it is…
10 of the Best Audiobooks of 2023
It was a year of exceptionally strong performances by narrators in the world of audiobooks. Some of those, like the…
Press Play on this Mixtape of Music Audiobooks
I’ve been a lifelong reader, but my other love has always been music (don’t tell books or my boss that…
When More Voices Are Better than One: Best Full Cast Audiobooks to Listen to for an Immersive Reading Experience
A popular subset of audiobooks is full cast editions, which are productions that involve multiple narrators. Just like in a…
12 Funny Audiobooks to Make You Laugh Out Loud
Make ‘em laugh! That’s the straightforward goal of all the authors whose audiobooks we chose for this list. Novelists, humorists,…
Love At First Listen: Romance Audiobooks to Fall in Love With
I like to think of myself a bit as a hopeless romantic. I love a good rom-com and a happily…
Best Audiobooks of 2022
Memoirs whose author-narrators will make you laugh, cry, and marvel at the power of hard-fought resilience. Music that will encourage…
Best Audiobooks to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
We’re in the midst of Hispanic Heritage Month, so we’re celebrating Latinx authors whose audiobooks have captured our hearts. For…
Top 10 Favorite eBooks This Year (So Far)
It’s important that I let you know I’m an equal opportunity book reader. Sometimes you’ll find me clutching a hardcover…