Archive for the 'audiobooks' Category
The perils of audiobooks
September 22nd, 2008Jacket Copy - “Maybe it’s because I like reading printed words so much, but I find myself persnickety about audiobooks. Even those that are free — some LibriVox recordings of works in the public domain are marvelous (I’m a big fan of one reader from Florida), but others are severely lacking.”
How many pages is your commute?
September 12th, 2008Jacket Copy - “The good news is that the only American city with a long enough annual commute to hear the complete unabridged audiobook of “War and Peace” is Los Angeles.
County orders library audio books English-only
August 24th, 2008WTOP: “The Frederick County Commissioners will not pay for audio library books in a language other than English, unless the book is teaching that language.”
Wow.
Library-worthy MP3 players and review dates
August 19th, 2008CNET Reviews - “Many city libraries are now offering audiobooks as free downloads…but there’s a catch. Find out what it is below.”
Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection on Audio Books
March 5th, 2008New York Times - “Some of the largest book publishers in the world are stripping away the anticopying software on digital downloads of audio books.”
Download This
October 4th, 2007Motoko Rich - ““Hi, I’m Stephen Colbert, and I am no fan of books.” So opens the audiobook version of that late-night-cable comedian’s “I Am America (And So Can You!),” which Mr. Colbert and his publisher definitely want fans to buy — in several versions.”
Audiobook News
September 16th, 2007Andrew Adam Newman - “The company that has given Apple’s iTunes the most competition in the song-download arena will now compete with it in selling audiobooks, too. Beginning tomorrow, eMusic, which is second to iTunes in music download sales, will offer more than a thousand books for download, with many of them costing far less [...]
Is Listening Cheating?
August 2nd, 2007NYT - “Janice Raspen, a librarian at an elementary school in Fredericksburg, Va., came clean with her book club a couple years ago. They were discussing “A Fine Balance,” a novel set in India in the 1970s by Rohinton Mistry and an Oprah’s Book Club pick, when she told the group — all fellow teachers [...]