RBmedia acquires Ukemi Audiobooks and Dharma Audiobooks

Global audiobook publisher RBmedia has announced the acquisition of Ukemi Audiobooks and Dharma Audiobooks, acquiring each business’ full catalogue of titles.

Ukemi Audiobooks will continue as an imprint under W F Howes, an RBmedia international publishing brand, and Dharma Audiobooks will be a sub-imprint under Ukemi Audiobooks.

Since being launched in 2015, Ukemi Audiobooks has produced previously unavailable fiction and nonfiction classics, ranging from ancient Greek, Roman and Latin texts to works by philosophers Nietzsche and Schopenhauer and psychologists Freud and Jung, as well as 20th-century classics including works by Thomas Mann and Samuel Beckett.

Dharma Audiobooks specialises in Buddhist work, from biographies, histories, talks, suttas and sutras, commentaries, and classic literature in the Theravada, Mahayana, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese and Western Buddhist traditions.

Nicolas Soames, founder and managing director of Ukemi Audiobooks and Dharma Audiobooks, said: “I started Ukemi Audiobooks and Dharma Audiobooks in 2015 to provide highly specialist titles, most of which were not otherwise available.

“Seven years later, it’s clear that both labels would really benefit from the much larger international distribution and marketing that W F Howes and RBmedia can provide. I was encouraged and pleased to find that such a large organisation was genuinely interested in these specialist corners of the audiobook community and know that these two labels are in capable hands.”

Miles Stevens-Hoare, managing director for RBmedia International, said: “Ukemi Audiobooks and Dharma Audiobooks titles have generated worldwide interest since their inception in 2015. We look forward to significantly expanding distribution of the existing catalogue through RBmedia’s powerful global distribution network, while also publishing new audiobook titles under our W F Howes brand.”