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DA3 Interview & Giveaway: Audiobook Narrator Karen White’s Romance Picks
Samuel Johnson observed, “A writer only begins a book. The reader finishes it.” With an audiobook, a voice is added to that mix, one that can profoundly affect the reader’s experience of the story....
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Monday News: Amazon is the ruler of audibooks; iOS7 will likely see an influx...
Would you pay again for iOS 7 versions of your favorite apps? – iMore suggests that because iOS7 is such a big infrastructure change, we should expect apps to start charging for a new version. So if...
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Tuesday News: Audio books are booming; 50 Shades as Intimate Partner...
Can You Hear Me Now? The New Explosion in Audio Books – WSJ.com – “The digital revolution may have dealt a heavy blow to print, but it is boosting literacy in other unexpected ways by fueling the...
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Thursday News: Penguin’s new 13-year old author, NYT lament on YA,...
Penguin Signs 13-Year-Old Author – Jake Marcionette is writing a series featuring sixth grader Jake Ali Mathews, who moves with his family from Florida to Maryland and has to settle into his new school...
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Friday News: Google takes over Mountain View, the real size of the online...
Welcome to Googletown – This is a pretty eye-opening piece about the relationship between Google and the city-like compound (in Mountain View, California) Google has created and continues to grow,...
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Thursday News: B&N defers digital audio plans, George RR Martin plans rest of...
B&N Plans Return to Digital Audiobooks – Publishers Weekly is reporting that Barnes and Noble, which recent announced that it was closing its downloadable audio book business, is still interested...
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Friday News: Wireless ISP allegedly blocks email encryption; Whisper v....
Revealed: ISPs Already Violating Net Neutrality To Block Encryption And Make Everyone Less Safe Online – So if you haven’t yet been engaged in the net neutrality debate, this might motivate your...
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Monday News: Facebook and Google’s massive traffic drive, Facebook tries to...
How Facebook and Google Now Dominate Media Distribution – A very interesting article from Frédéric Filloux and Jean-Louis Gassée arguing that Facebook and Google are the two major players in terms of...
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Thursday News: AAP numbers released, Hungary wants to tax the internet, NY...
Children’s fuels 2014 growth in US – The Association of American Publishers have released their numbers regarding what is and isn’t selling in US publishing. In addition to the boom represented by kid...
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Thursday News: B&N’s new digital audiobook app, Lemony Snicket comes to...
I’m sorry the news is late this morning. In addition to a work deadline last night, I decided to update my operating system and it screwed up my computer for a few hours. B&N ReLaunches Their...
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Friday News: Pew’s Web IQ quiz and report, Barnes & Noble divorces Microsoft,...
What Internet Users Know about Technology and the Web – A very interesting Web IQ of Americans report from Pew Internet, which includes a quiz to test your own Web IQ. The results from the report...
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Friday News: Worst obituary ever?, FCC boosts broadband, new Chrome app for...
Twitter reacts to The Australian’s sexist Colleen McCullough obituary – So, The Australian has apparently managed to write one of the worst obituaries ever, on Thorn Birds author Colleen McCullough,...
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Wednesday News: Blurred Lines verdict, original audiobooks, Australian...
The ‘Blurred Lines’ Verdict Could Be Bad for Music – So a Los Angeles jury ruled that Robin Thick and Pharrell Williams engaged in unintentional copyright infringement of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Got to Give it...
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What Willaful’s Been Reading and Listening To, Winter 2015
This is a selected list rather than my entire reading; if I included every Harlequin Presents I read over the last few months, it’d look like I’m on the take. A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong by...
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Thursday News: Scribd adds 9,000 audiobooks, is Facebook manipulating its...
SCRIBD ADDS PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUDIO TITLES TO ITS LIBRARY – In the current battle between digital book subscription services, the reader definitely seems to be gaining. Now Scribd is adding 9,000...
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What Kati Has Been Listening To
I have a new job that requires a commute that is about an hour each direction. I find that audiobooks pass the time perfectly for me in the car. Here’s a list of what I’ve been listening to in the last...
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Wednesday News: Audiobook evolution; the Met Gala and damaging stereotypes;...
Audiobooks: Where They’ve Been & Where They’re Headed – A pretty interesting interview with Michele Cobb, executive director of the Audio Publishers Association. While some may think of audiobooks...
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Tuesday News: Wearable technologies, Readgeek book recommender, audiobook...
The revolution will be digitized – A really interesting piece on the proliferation of “wearable” technologies (and we’re definitely closer to the beginning of this trend than the end), and the diverse...
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Monday News: Conan Doyle estate is at it again; HC debuts Harlequin Audio;...
Sherlock Holmes Creator’s Estate Sues Miramax Over Ian McKellen’s ‘Mr. Holmes’ – The Conan Doyle estate is definitely gaining a reputation for its aggressive pursuit of alleged intellectual property...
View ArticleAudiobooks and the difference between books and stories
Audiobooks are my new object of affection. Now that I have a commute, I can make the ride feel more productive when I listen to a book on the way to my office. And I already have my favorite narrators....
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