Samantha Levine is a longtime resident of Brooklyn who has emerged as a dynamic entrepreneur in the New York business scene. She holds a BS in elementary education and an MS in reading from Brooklyn College. To keep abreast of entrepreneurship in the city, Samantha Levine enjoys reading business and entrepreneurship news for the latest updates and insights.

Entrepreneurs have been critical in establishing various industries over the past decades. One of those industries is the audiobook industry.

The fabled entrepreneur and pioneer of audiobooks, Marianne Mantell, who died at her home in Princeton, New Jersey, at age 93 on January 22, 2023, launched the audiobook industry in 1952. She founded Caedmon Records with her former classmate, a groundbreaking label that focuses on spoken-word recordings of exceptional literary works.

Caedmon's first release was Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales, which sold over 400,000 copies in the 1950s. The label also releases recordings by renowned playwrights. William Shakespeare and Anton Chekhov are two examples.

The company's success as a business stems largely from its pioneering idea of transforming short stories, poetry, and novels into audio recordings. According to The New York Times newspaper, when the late Ms. Mantell founded the company, she was a struggling 22-year-old freelance writer. She turned the presence of a literate audience into a profitable venture.