Online audio book rental services are not an insignificant temporary episode as many used to think. Online audio book rental services are becoming a widespread phenomenon – more and more people get to know the numerous benefits of using online audio book rentals. So what exactly are these online audio book rental services and will you get benefit from them?. Read on and find out the answers for your questions. full story »
Are audio books expensive? Well, it’s a tough question. What kind of audio books – downloaded audio books, audio books on CD or books on tape, which titles? And compared to what – the old fashioned book or to other audio titles? Let us examine the prices and then take a look at the factors that affect the price of audio books. Then, we will try to answer the question again: Are audio books expensive? full story »
Audio books have all the right terms to become a popular trend in the near future. Going a bit more far, there is even a reasonable chance that audio books will make the concept of books as we know it today disappear. full story »
Most of the Mp3 players’ manufacturers plan their product for the purpose of listening to music. However, in the past couple of years more and more MP3 players are used for listening to audio books. There is a difference between the needs using the MP3 players for audio books and for music. If you consider using your new MP3 player for listening to audio books take into account the following considerations: full story »
The modern technology gives us the opportunity to ‘open’ the existing concept of a book. Nowadays, in addition to reading a book in the old fashioned way, one can listen to audio book in one of at least 3 methods: An audio book on a cassette, an audio book on a CD or an audio book in the format of a MP3 or other audio file. In this article we will examine the different parameters that one should consider when buying a new ‘book’: full story »
When I was young I read all the books written by Douglas Adams. I liked it so much that I have managed to persuade my parents to buy the audio books of the same titles I have read. I remember getting larges boxes with up to twenty audio cassettes for each book and listening to one cassette each night. full story »
In the recorded history of humanity, probably no invention has had a greater influence than the introduction of printing in the fifteenth century by Johannes Gutenberg. Nowadays, with the latest development in audio books, some believe that the printing era is coming to its’ end. full story »
Audio books are becoming more and more popular. Yet, there are a lot of individual people that are afraid of trying audio books – they are the ‘audio book phobic’ people.
I have interviewed some of them recently and collected the so called reasons that separate them from the audio book world. I have proven to each one of them that those reasons are only myths and even succeeded in persuading some of them to try those threatening audio books. Here are the main myths I have encountered: full story »
Did you know that A trucker working to the legal limit in the U.S. can rack up to 3,432 driving hours a year—nearly 10 times that of the average New York commuter or enough to listen to the unabridged audio book version of Bill Clinton’s My Life 77 times? (Publishing Trends, Market Partners International, September 2005). full story »
Hi, my name is Carol and I am addicted to audio books.
My story: I am 32 and addicted to audio books. I have been trying to cut back but I can’t.
I was first introduced to audio books 12 years ago. My parents bought me a Stephen King audio book as a birthday present. It included 10 books on cassettes each 25 minutes. I finished listening to it the first night. Then, I started buying audio books for me and for each of my friend’s birthdays (whether they liked audio books or not). full story »