Hachette Livre has appointed Myriam Gilles as head of audio production for the group, effective October 1, 2026, under the direction of Laure Saget, director general of Audiolib. Gilles will oversee the development of audiobook production for Audiolib, as well as for Hachette Livre's publishing houses and third-party publishers distributed by the group. Gilles joined Audible France in 2010 as head of content acquisition and later created Audible Studios France in 2014 to structure the French production activity. She led the production for 11 years, overseeing up to 600 content titles annually and coordinating ten partner studios. Before joining Audible, Gilles began her career in London in 1998 in the media and market intelligence sectors, before working in Argentina and Mexico. Hachette Livre is expanding its audio business, with Audiolib, established in 2008 and owned 60% by Hachette Livre and 40% by Albin Michel, already having a catalog exceeding 1,000 titles, with more than a dozen new titles published each month. Audiolib's catalog includes authors such as Joël Dicker, Ken Follett, Pierre Lemaitre, Guillaume Musso, Amélie Nothomb, Maxime Chattam, Stephen King, and Fred Vargas. The catalog also includes youth audiobooks, with more than 50 titles, and audio comics, including adaptations of the first Asterix albums. According to the 2026 barometer by the National Syndicate of Publishing, Sofia, and SGDL, 10 million French people listened to at least one digital audiobook in 2025. Nearly half of the audiobook listeners, 48%, were also subscribed to at least one platform allowing the listening or reading of books. Hachette expanded its distribution in 2024 by concluding a partnership with Spotify, giving access to the audiobook catalogs of publishers distributed by the group, including Audiolib. De Marque and ElevenLabs have announced a partnership allowing publishers using Cantook Édition to select titles from their catalog to make them available in audio on the ElevenReader app. The initiative concerns content in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and many other languages. A study shows that AI is already entering the production of audiobooks, but the sector is much less automated than imagined. Savings are real but limited, issues of rights are central, and the human voice retains strong editorial value. Climate crises are intensifying, with new observations from the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership showing that deep Antarctic waters are decreasing four times faster since 2015. This phenomenon, which affects a key but less visible element of the global climate, echoes Charlotte McConaghy's The Ghosts of Shearwater (Actes Sud Audio, translated by Marie Chabin): on an island in the Southern Ocean struck by storms, a family tries to preserve a seed bank while water rises and secrets resurface. A T-Rex named Gus, 67 million years old, was auctioned for $50.1 million to an anonymous buyer. According to the Associated Press, paleontologists fear that this specimen may be removed from research and the public. Between scientific heritage, private property, and spectacle, this sale recalls Dostoevsky's The Crocodile (Actes Sud Audio, translated by André Markowicz), where saving a man swallowed by a crocodile threatens the financial interests of the animal's owner.