[qortra]

I have an audiobook collection attached to my XBMC deployment. Having a separate "Audiobook" section would be nice, but I am fairly satisfied with the way it works right now when used as part of the "Music" section. If anything, a content-type specification would be appropriate rather than an entire section.

They would be in an audio format (mp3, flac, ...etc) and probably split up into different parts or chapters.

Unfortunately, DRM-free audiobooks (such as those sold by EMusic or SimplyAudiobooks) are not always indexed by chapters. However, most of them are separated into parts using the "Track" tag which functions perfectly in XBMC Music.

They could have a bookcover as the folder.jpg

This works properly in the Music section.

and the possibility of a writeup of the author for information

One could probably add this using the tag system. However, to really do this correctly, a scraper would have to be developed and a source of Audiobook information amenable to scraping would have to be found.

with the ability to resume like we can with videos now

Now this is definitely interesting. Frankly, this is a feature we could using in the Music section as a whole. Resume should happen at the album level, thereby remembering what song or audiobook track was last played as well as the time index at which it was stopped.