I'm talking audiobooks, of course. There's a nebulous point somewhere sleeping and wakefulness, a state where insomnia still reigns but you're too tired actually to turn the light on and read. The solution? An audiobook. You get the hypnotic effect of ... Thu, 17 May 2012 11:12:09 GMT
By Matt Rocheleau, Town Correspondent When Yolanda Stratter opened shop in Boston three decades ago, sales of physical copies of books, movies and music thrived. But, outdone by digitalization, the products she offers at her store, Diskovery, ... Fri, 11 May 2012 13:33:34 GMT
THE TITANIC Disaster of a Century By Wyn Craig Wade Unabridged, Tantor, 12½ hours, 12 CDs, $39.99; downloads: audible.com, $27.99; iTunes, $23.95 The number of books about the Titanic is legion, but of those I've read (plenty), this one, ... Tue, 08 May 2012 22:40:01 GMT
It -- as well as cyberstores selling Kindle Singles, Nook Snaps and Apple Quick Reads -- offers readers the chance to collect smaller works of fiction at bargain prices, much in the same way iTunes offers music, videos, audiobooks and yes, e-books.
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One of the MAXD Store genres of focus will be the audio book market in which MAXD plans to create the best possible scenario for Authors and Publishers. In a strategic alliance with Lissy Peace & Associates, a long time publishing and entertainment ... Tue, 15 May 2012 13:16:18 GMT
The Holland company, which does more than $100 million in business a year, repackages and sells DVDs, CDs, and audio books to about 4000 libraries across the country. It got its start about 20 years ago and profits by staying ahead of the ever-changing ... Fri, 11 May 2012 04:12:52 GMT
Somewhat further down the evolutionary path, our family does its campfire storytelling by way of audiobooks in the car. This is not quite as silly as it sounds. My husband and children and I live the temporally discombobulated life of so many New York ... Fri, 18 May 2012 14:01:01 GMT
A SERVICE providing audio books for blind and visually impaired people is being handed over to a charity by Herts County Council in a move which will triple the number of titles on offer. It was agreed by cabinet on Monday that County Hall's Cassettes ... Sat, 19 May 2012 18:11:49 GMT
Titles will be selected from across Faber's fiction, non-fiction and children's lists, with Faber to continue to handle publication of audiobooks of its poetry titles itself. The publishers said they are planning on "no more than a dozen" titles each ... Fri, 18 May 2012 07:37:50 GMT
Since then, I've become a habitué of the audiobook section of my local library, renting and illegally ripping “books” to my iPod. I've discovered that audiobooks are (among other things) an ideal way to get to know a work that you can't, for whatever ... Wed, 16 May 2012 18:34:13 GMT
