From 3% to 100% — A Conversation With Ese Bobori

🎙From 3% to 100% — A Conversation With Ese Bobori Ese Bobori From 3% to 100%: Ese Bobori on Using AI to Open the Audiobook Industry to Every Author In his Legacy Bench conversation, Ese Bobori shares the vision behind a business that is challenging one of publishing’s biggest accessibility gaps. As the founder of Audibound, an AI-powered audiobook production platform, he is working to solve a problem that has existed for decades: why only around 3% of books ever become audiobooks. But his story is about more than artificial intelligence. It is about questioning an industry where thousands of authors invest years writing books, only to discover that the vast majority will never be available in audio, limiting their reach, their income, and their audience. For Ese, this isn’t simply a technology problem. It is an opportunity to rethink how creative industries can become more inclusive without sacrificing quality. Traditional audiobook production is expensive, time-consuming, and often commercially viable only for bestselling titles. As a result, independent authors, niche publishers, and emerging writers are frequently excluded from a rapidly growing market, despite increasing dema