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sales in 2008, then began to decline in favor of digital downloads. The 2012 survey found CDs accounted for "nearly half" of all sales meaning it was no longer the dominant medium (APA did not report the digital download figures for 2012, but in 2011 CDs accounted for 53% and digital download was 41%). The APA estimates that audiobook sales in 2015 in digital format increased by 34% over 2014.
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The lifestyle of urban Indian population and one of the highest daily commute time in the world has also helped in making Audiobooks popular in the region. Business and Self Help books have widespread appeal and have been more popular than fiction/non-fiction. This is because Audiobooks are primarily
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Audiobooks in India started to appear somewhat later than in the rest of the world. Only by 2010 did Audiobooks gain mainstream popularity in the Indian market. This is primarily due to lack of previous organized efforts on the part of publishers and authors. The marketing efforts and availability of
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in annual surveys (the earlier transition from record to cassette is described in the section on the 1970s). The final year that cassettes represented greater than 50% of total market sales was 2002. Cassettes were replaced by CDs as the dominant medium during 2003–2004. CDs reached a peak of 78% of
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during the 1970s. Cassette tapes were invented in 1962 and a few libraries, such as the Library of Congress, began distributing books on cassette by 1969. However, during the 1970s, a number of technological innovations allowed the cassette tape wider usage in libraries and also spawned the creation
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was a pioneer in the audiobook business. It was the first company dedicated to selling spoken work recordings to the public and has been called the "seed" of the audiobook industry. Caedmon was formed in New York in 1952 by college graduates Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Roney. Their first release
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About 40 percent of all audiobook consumption occurs through public libraries, with the remainder served primarily through retail book stores. Library download programs are currently experiencing rapid growth (more than 5,000 public libraries offer free downloadable audiobooks). Libraries are also
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400 (as of 2011). Many narrators also work as producers and deliver fully produced audiobooks, which have been edited, mastered, and proofed. They may charge an extra $ 75–$ 125 per finished hour in addition to their narration fee to coordinate and pay for the post-production services. The overall
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founded in 1956 by Arthur Luce Klein and his wife, they produced over 700 recordings and were best known for poetry and drama recordings used in schools and libraries. Like Caedemon, Listening Library and Spoken Arts benefited from the new technology of LPs, but also increased governmental funding
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and had little access to live readers. Macdonald mobilized the women of the Auxiliary under the motto "Education is a right, not a privilege". Members of the Auxiliary transformed the attic of the New York Public Library into a studio, recording textbooks using then state-of-the-art six-inch vinyl
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Listening Books is a UK audiobook charity providing an internet streaming, download and postal service to anyone who has a disability or illness which makes it difficult to hold a book, turn its pages, or read in the usual way, this includes people with visual, physical, learning or mental health
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Calibre Audio Library is a UK charity providing a subscription-free service of unabridged audiobooks for people with sight problems, dyslexia or other disabilities, who cannot read print. They have a library of over 8,550 fiction and non-fiction titles which can be borrowed by post on MP3 CDs and
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serves more than 300,000 K–12, college and graduate students, veterans and lifelong learners—all of whom cannot read standard print due to blindness, visual impairment, dyslexia, or other learning disabilities. Learning Ally's collection of more than 80,000 human-narrated textbooks and literature
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found that the overwhelming majority of audiobook users listen in the car, and more than two-thirds of audiobook buyers described audiobooks as relaxing and a good way to multitask. Another stated reason for choosing audiobooks over other formats is that an audio performance makes some books more
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recorded the first audiobooks for the visually impaired in an improvised studio lined with egg cartons. Because trams rattled past, these first productions took place at night. Later, texts were recorded by trained speakers in professional studios and distributed to users by mail. Until the 1970s
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as a direct to consumer mail order rental service for unabridged audiobooks and expanded their services selling their products to libraries and audiobooks gaining popularity with commuters and travelers. In 1978, Henry Trentman, a traveling salesman who listened to sales tapes while driving long
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reading the text, while a studio engineer and a director record and direct the performance. If a mistake is made the recording is stopped and the narrator reads it again. With recent advancements in recording technology, many audiobooks are also now recorded in home studios by narrators working
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In 2018, approximately 50,000 audiobooks were recorded in the United States with a sales growth of 20 percent year over year. U.S. audiobook sales in 2019 totaled 1.2 billion dollars, up 16% from the previous year. In addition to the sales increase, Edison Research's national survey of American
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Many short, spoken word recordings were sold on cylinder in the late 19th and early 20th century; however, the round cylinders were limited to about 4 minutes each making books impractical; flat platters increased to 12 minutes but this too was impractical for longer works. "One early listener
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First, Audiobook lacked a lot of policy support related to the industry, and secondly, Audiobook production environment infrastructure was insufficient. Third, research and technology development, such as academia, has not been active in order to continue to grow as an Audiobook industry.
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By 1984, there were eleven audiobook publishing companies, they included Caedmon, Metacom, Newman Communications, Recorded Books, Brilliance and Books on Tape. The companies were small, the largest had a catalog of 200 titles. Some abridged titles were being sold in bookstores, such as
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invented a technique for recording twice as much on the same cassette thus allowing for affordable unabridged editions. The technique involved recording on each of the two channels of each stereo track. This opened the market to new opportunities and by September 1985,
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and similar activities. The most popular general use of audiobooks by adults is when commuting with an automobile or while traveling with public transport, as an alternative to radio or music. Many people listen as well just to relax or as they drift off to sleep.
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is an Android audiobook library allowing listing 1000+ Hindi Audio Books. They are offering ample audiobooks freely. To access the entire catalog they are charging nominal membership of Rs. 199/ Year for Indian audiobook listener and $ 5.99/Year for Rest of World.
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With the spread of the Internet to consumers in the 1990s, faster download speeds with broadband technologies, new compressed audio formats and portable media players, the popularity of audiobooks increased significantly during the late 1990s and 2000s. In 1997,
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records, invented in 1948, which made longer recordings more affordable and practical, however most of their works were poems, plays and other short works, not unabridged books due to the LP's limitation of about a 45-minute playing time (combined sides).
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format and delivered to the reader's house by post as a CD or USB memory stick. There are over 30,000 audiobooks available to borrow, which are free to print disabled library members. RNIB subsidises the Talking Books service by around £4 million a year.
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cost to produce an audiobook can vary significantly, as longer books require more studio time and more well known narrators come at a premium. According to a representative at Audible, the cost of recording an audiobook has fallen from around
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Narrators are usually paid on a finished recorded hour basis, meaning if it took 20 hours to produce a 5-hour book, the narrator is paid for 5 hours, thus providing an incentive not to make mistakes. Depending on the narrator they are paid
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initiated a regular column to cover the industry. By the end of 1987, the audiobook market was estimated to be a $ 200 million market, and audiobooks on cassette were being sold in 75% of regional and independent bookstores surveyed by
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was also a pioneering company, it was one of the first to distribute children's audiobooks to schools, libraries and other special markets, including VA hospitals. It was founded by Anthony Ditlow and his wife in 1955 in their
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in 1877. "Phonographic books" were one of the original applications envisioned by Edison which would "speak to blind people without effort on their part." The initial words spoken into the phonograph were Edison's recital of
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complained that he would need a wheelbarrow to carry around talking books recorded on discs with such limited storage capacity." By the 1930s close-grooved records increased to 20 minutes making possible longer narrative.
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on a series of 60-minute cassettes. In libraries, most books on cassette were still made for blind and disabled people, however some new companies saw the opportunity for making audiobooks for a wider audience, such as
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Audiobooks are considered a valuable tool because of their format. Unlike traditional books or a video program, one can listen to an audiobook while doing other tasks. Such tasks include doing the laundry, exercising,
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for audiobooks, which is equivalent to the Oscar for the audiobook industry. The nominees are announced each year by February. The winners are announced at a gala banquet in May, usually in conjunction with
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The term "talking book" came into being in the 1930s with government programs designed for blind readers, while the term "audiobook" came into use during the 1970s when audiocassettes began to replace
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rather than books. It was not until the 1980s that the medium began to attract book retailers, and then book retailers started displaying audiobooks on bookshelves rather than in separate displays.
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of Ann Arbor, Michigan was the first organization to produce and deliver spoken-word recordings of written journalistic and literary works via the Internet to serve people with visual impairments.
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in 2005 by Montreal-based writer Hugh McGuire who posed the question on his blog: "Can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through
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In the early 1970s, instructional recordings were among the first commercial products sold on cassette. There were 8 companies distributing materials on cassette with titles such as
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phonograph discs that played approximately 12 minutes of material per side. In 1952, Macdonald established recording studios in seven additional cities across the United States.
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difficulties. They have audiobooks for both leisure and learning and a library of over 7,500 titles which are recorded in their own digital studios or commercially sourced.
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is also an online library of downloadable audiobooks and a free non for profit organisation developed by Hugh McGuire. It has public domain audiobooks in several languages.
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By the middle of the 1990s, the audio publishing business grew to 1.5 billion dollars a year in retail value. In 1996, the Audio Publishers Association established the
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vinyl record format for schools and libraries into the early 1970s, the beginning of the modern retail market for audiobooks can be traced to the wide adoption of
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opened the Deyan Institute of Vocal Artistry and Technology, the world's first campus and school for teaching the art and technology of audiobook production.
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distances, had the idea to create quality unabridged recordings of classic literature read by professional actors. His company, the Maryland-based
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In the Korean publishing sector, since the audiobook business began in 2000, it has disappeared due to its failure to achieve meaningful results.
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identified twenty-one audiobook publishers. These included new major publishers such as Harper and Row, Random House, and Warner Communications.
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1986 has been identified as the turning point in the industry, when it matured from an experimental curiosity. A number of events happened: the
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provide fees for audiobook library services to the visually impaired; requested books are mailed out (at no cost) to clients. Founded in 1996,
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audiobook listeners ages 18 and up found that the average number of audiobooks listened to per year increased from 6.8 in 2019 to 8.1 in 2020.
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guaranteed a college education to all veterans, but texts were mostly inaccessible to the recently blinded veterans, who did not read
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independently. Audiobooks produced by major publishing houses undergo a proofing and editing process after narration is recorded.
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of new commercial audiobook market. These innovations included the introduction of small and cheap portable players such as the
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standard, which provides additional features for visually impaired users to both listen and navigate written material aurally.
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where instead of a magnetic tape the sound was recorded on a continuous loop of grooved vinylite ribbon similar to the old
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Audiobooks have been used to teach children to read and to increase reading comprehension. They are also useful for the
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in 2018. It came in a 2-LP vinyl set, or as a downloadable MP3, but with no published text. Another example includes
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Audiobooks are distributed on any audio format available, but primarily these are records, cassette tapes, CDs,
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titles can be downloaded on mainstream smartphones and tablets, and is the largest of its kind in the world.
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which produced abridged best-sellers with professional actors. Early pioneers included Olympic gold medalist
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is an online library of computer-read audiobooks in accessible formats for people with print disabilities.
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Nearly 20 years later, interest in mobile has increased in 2019, but there are still tasks to be solved.
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recordings were on tape reels, then later cassettes. Since 2004, the offerings have been recorded in the
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is a spoken word audio work that is an original production but not based on a book. Examples include
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The resurgence of audio storytelling is widely attributed to advances in mobile technologies such as
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The transition from vinyl, to cassette, to CD, to MP3CD, to digital download has been documented by
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were the first to develop integrated production teams and to work with professional actors.
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Virgil L. P. Blake (1990). "Something New Has Been Added: Aural Literacy and Libraries".
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Audiobooks has made India as one of the fastest growing Audiobooks markets in the world.
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Example of an audio studio for professional readings. The studio is surrounded in
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seen as an avenue for self-improvement and education, rather than entertainment.
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An audiobook collection in a library. A mix of cassette tape and CD-ROM formats.
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The Audible Gate to the World: The West German Audio Book Library for the Blind
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popular places to check out audiobooks in the CD format. According to the
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home; Ditlow was partially blind. Another early pioneering company was
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Spoken word recordings first became possible with the invention of the
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from the speaker, allowing the microphone to pick up clearer audio.
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Caption reads: "The phonograph at home reading out a novel." From
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National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress
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Audiobooks are being released in various Indian languages. In
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Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFBD, later renamed
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Audiobook used to disseminate information among farmers in
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established the term "audiobook" as the industry standard.
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club began offering audiobooks to its members, as did the
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for schools and libraries beginning in the 1950s and 60s.
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Talking Book
Talking Book (disambiguation)
abridgements
schools
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poetry
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Audio Publishers Association

phonograph
Thomas Edison
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Royal Institution
Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle
Tennyson
American Foundation for the Blind
Books for the Blind
Helen Keller
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Gladys Hasty Carroll
E. M. Delafield
Cora Jarrett
Rudyard Kipling

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