Statistics: Publishers Release 9,000 New Audiobooks in 2006
From the summary:

According to Bowker, 8,970 new spoken word audio titles were published in 2006, down from the most recent five-year average of 10,900. Since the introduction of the spoken word audio format, a grand total of 202,111 audiobook titles have been released and 40% of those titles (79,038) have been published since 2000. There are over 3,000 audiobook publishers in the U.S., with Brilliance, Random House, Blackstone, Recorded Books, BBC America, and Simon & Schuster accounting for most of the new releases.

More stats in the summary.

Source: Bowker

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