Authors - Audio Books

Penguin Ends E-Book Library Lending And Relationship With OverDrive
paidContent.org
Starting tomorrow, it will stop offering e-books and digital audiobooks to libraries—at least until it finds a new partner. With this move, Random House becomes the only big-six publisher to allow unrestricted access to its e-books in libraries ...
Penguin Severs Ties with OverDrivePublishers Weekly
Penguin US 'terminates contract' with OverDriveThe Bookseller
Penguin pulls out of OverDrive, stops ebook sales to librariesQuill & Quire (blog)
Good E-Reader (blog) -Publishers Lunch Deluxe (subscription)
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Library System offers audiobooks, eBook, music, and video downloads
Brunswick Times Gazette
Meherrin Regional Library System home of the Brunswick County Library in Lawrenceville and the William E. Richardson, Jr. Memorial Library in Emporia has expanded its services with audiobooks, eBooks, music, and video, available to download from the ...

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Five ways to save money on audiobooks
CNET
by Rick Broida February 4, 2012 9:57 AM PST Follow @cheapskateblog Audiobooks are a great way to pass the time on long drives. Audiobook prices, on the other hand, are a great way to drain your wallet. For example, want to listen to the Steve Jobs bio?

A Salute to Black History: Celebrate with Audiobooks
School Library Journal
The observance of Black History Month presents an opportunity to highlight some recent audiobooks, both fiction and non-fiction, that focus on the African American experience seen from African American perspectives. From sports to the arts to social ...

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Digital Audiobooks Bring New Media to Library Collection
Patch.com
By Eileen Oldfield Donna DeStefano shows off the new Playaway Digital Audio Books and Playaway View, a digital video player, recently at the Hillsborough Library. Somerset County Library System The traditional audio have reached the digital age at the ...
Library introduces new generation of audiobookEdmond Sun

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Four free audiobook downloads to inspire you
The Guardian
Don't miss a selection of self-help books that will make you think, not groan - free each day with the Guardian. Oliver Berkanmen, writer of This column will change your life, and author of HELP!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done, ...

Toronto's Audiobooks.com launches all-you-can-hear cloud streaming
Financial Post
Canadian fans of Stephen King and Mary Higgins Clark who prefer to do their reading aurally will soon have access to an all-you-can-eat audio books service courtesy of Toronto's Audiobooks.com. On Tuesday, Audiobooks.com — a subsidiary of privately ...
Audiobooks.com Launches a Spotify for BooksMashable
Audiobooks.com Launches the First Unlimited Cloud-Based Service for Audio BooksMarketWatch (press release)
Podiobooks, Audible, Audiobooks: we look at 3 audio book business modelsITworld.com
TechRadar UK -mediabistro.com
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Audiobooks.com offers you unlimited books in the cloud for .95 a month.
CNET
PC and mobile users who listen to a lot of audiobooks each month may appreciate a new service from the folks at Audiobooks.com. The site is kicking off its own cloud-based service that lets you listen to as many audiobooks as you want to the tune of ...
Audiobooks.com creates unlimited Netflix-like streamingVatorNews
Audiobooks.com launches North America's first cloud-based streaming serviceQuill & Quire
Audiobooks.com Launches Audiobook Flatrate ServiceGhacks Technology News
VentureBeat -The Verge -WebProNews
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To get some audiobooks, you've got to be blind
Tucson Citizen
By his estimate, Hagen has recorded over 500 audiobooks in 39 years. If you or someone you know is blind or physically handicapped and borrows those boxy little recordings of books, newspapers and magazines, you've heard Hagen's voice.

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To get some audiobooks, you've got to be blind
USA TODAY
But if you want to hear an authorized audiobook of JD Salinger's seminal 1951 novel, you'll need what amounts to a doctor's prescription. By Jack Gruber, USA TODAY By Jack Gruber, USA TODAY Salinger died in 2010, without relinquishing the rights for an ...

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