Amazon digital audiobook site Audible has relaunched its iOS app with full support for the iPad. The relaunch reflects the service’s popularity on the Apple tablet, with more than 20% of Audible customers using the existing iOS app on their iPad. Version 2.0 of the app also includes a new design and the ability for users to sign in with their Amazon accounts (rather than having to create a new Audible account).

Audiobooks.com is shelving its unlimited streaming offer in favour of a cheaper, almost a-la-carte, subscription model. The audio books service will now charge $14.95 for one audiobook a month or $22.95 for two, rather than its previous unlimited offer for $24.95 a month. The move will put it in direct competition with the Amazon-owned Audible, which has long sold audio books on an a-la-carte basis.

Audible has created a Windows Phone app, allowing users to download audiobooks on a subscription or a-la-carte basis. The app itself is free from the Windows Phone Marketplace and, once installed, users can listen to eight book extracts. They can then decide whether to download books individually or subscribe for a monthly fee of £3.99, which gives them one download a month from a range of 100,000 titles. The app also includes social media links, an Audible newsfeed and a stats screen where users can monitor their listening and collect badges.

The final speech at today’s London Book Fair Digital Minds Conference came from Don Katz, founder and CEO of Audible, which nowadays is an Amazon subsidiary. His topic: ‘The future …