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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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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
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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
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and had little access to live readers. Macdonald mobilized the women of the
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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1932:, McClatchy Newspapers, 29 June 2011.
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1691:"Podcasts are back—and making money"
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1307:"The Olivier Of Books On Audio Tape"
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219:, read by Anthony McDonald in 1934.
1979:from the original on 3 January 2015
1689:Kang, Cecilia (25 September 2014).
1428:. 15 September 1997. Archived from
1038:Rubery, Matthew (5 November 2018).
596:25,000 in the late 1990s to around
47:Spoken audio has been available in
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2317:Olshan, Jeremy (8 December 2015).
2297:"The New Explosion in Audio Books"
2295:Alter, Alexandra (1 August 2013).
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1884:from the original on 17 April 2018
1788:"Portrait of the Voice in My Head"
1786:Fitzpatrick, Molly (30 May 2018).
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1722:Purcell, Julius (27 March 2015).
1703:from the original on 23 July 2015
1670:from the original on 15 July 2015
1481:MaryAnnSpiegel (1 January 2022).
1085:from the original on 7 March 2014
544:Listen Stories By Sahitya Chintan
163:American Foundation for the Blind
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2184:"What Kind of Listener Are You?"
1636:from the original on 9 June 2016
1364:Hendren, John (29 August 1995).
1339:"A Brief History of Audio Books"
1279:. G. K. Hall & Co. pp.
1165:Shannon Maughan (7 March 2005).
873:memory sticks or via streaming.
792:A recent survey released by the
482:In 2014, Bob and Debra Deyan of
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27:Talking Book (disambiguation)
2853:Conservation and restoration
2268:. Rnib.org.uk. 8 June 2012.
2266:"RNIB Talking Books Service"
1598:Audio Publishers Association
1532:Audio Publishers Association
794:Audio Publishers Association
662:recorded for radio broadcast
660:A small number of books are
461:Audio Publishers Association
385:Audio Publishers Association
267:A Child's Christmas in Wales
97:Audio Publishers Association
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260:as read by the author. The
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587:150 per finished hour to
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2435:Illuminated manuscripts
2324:The Wall Street Journal
2302:The Wall Street Journal
1856:27 January 2011 at the
1509:26 October 2010 at the
228:New York Public Library
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2186:. Random House Audio.
1458:. 1997. Archived from
991:. Routledge. pp.
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130:Mary Had a Little Lamb
116:
59:since the 1930s. Many
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1863:retrieved 26 May 2012
1017:"Cylinder Recordings"
908:(1978, first release)
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640:Advanced Audio Coding
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2010:, July 1955, p. 141.
2003:7 April 2015 at the
1943:"Narrator Resources"
1878:newindianexpress.com
1452:"The Audible Player"
749:in the U.S. and the
435:digital media player
292:Red Bank, New Jersey
264:'s B-side contained
187:Gladys Hasty Carroll
2991:Blindness equipment
2119:on 15 February 2012
1827:on 30 December 2020
1696:The Washington Post
1541:on 21 February 2015
1081:. 5 December 2002.
842:panels to mitigate
773:Listening practices
747:Library of Congress
636:Windows Media Audio
479:over the internet.
361:Chivers Audio Books
234:. The newly passed
167:Books for the Blind
2917:World Book Capital
2240:"Calibre services"
2164:on 28 October 2014
1949:on 28 October 2014
1462:on 18 January 1998
1432:on 18 January 1998
1398:. Booksalley.com.
1204:The New York Times
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153:Beginnings to 1970
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73:downloadable audio
61:spoken word albums
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1793:The Village Voice
1370:Los Angeles Times
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1172:Publishers Weekly
1044:Audiobook History
1002:978-0-415-88352-8
865:Founded in 2005,
858:Founded in 2002,
850:Founded in 1948,
779:Spoken word album
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