Authors - Audio Books

Students trial eBooks
Glen Innes Examiner
Software glitches have held up full access to the e-library until this week but students in years 9-12 can now access eBooks on their school-supplied laptops (although audio books and videos are unavailable). All students can also download free ...

The Pleasures of Being Read To
New Yorker (blog)
Since then, I've become a habitué of the audiobook section of my local library, renting and illegally ripping “books” to my iPod. I've discovered that audiobooks are (among other things) an ideal way to get to know a work that you can't, for whatever ...

Librarians to educate people on eBook and audiobook downloading
Ithaca Journal
Coffee will partner for a demonstration by the "Freeloading Librarians," a group of library staff members offering instruction, advice and support for downloading free eBooks and audiobooks to mobile devices. The demonstration, beginning at 10:30 am ...

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Pay us for library ebook loans, say authors
The Guardian
But ebooks and audiobooks, a growing sector for library users, are not currently included in the scheme, even though the Digital Economy Act of 2010 paved the way for this to be done. Nicola Solomon of the Society of Authors called it "terribly unfair" ...
UK Authors want to be Paid by Libraries when their eBook is Loaned OutGood E-Reader (blog)

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Audio Reviews | May 15, 2012
Library Journal
Joyce Kessel, Villa Maria Coll., Buffalo NoveList, the popular print readers' advisory tool from EBSCO, is adding audiobooks to its repertoire. “We're in the initial stages of data identification, compilation, and product design, so we don't have many ...

Long Island Events
Newsday
Explore LI > Events Print Aa Sat12 Ebooks and Audiobooks Brightwaters , NY 631-665-4350 Event overview More events at this venue When: Sat. 5/12 9:30-11:30 am. Where: Bay Shore-Brightwaters Library 1 South Country Rd. Brightwaters, NY 11718-1513 Price: ...

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In the stacks: new nonfiction audiobooks
Juneau Empire
By Kathy Ward New nonfiction audiobooks include biographies of Steve Jobs, Langston Hughes, Rin Tin Tin, and King Abdullah II of Jordan. Look for bestsellers like Amy Sedaris' Simple Times, Suze Orman's The Money Class, and classics like Chaucer's The ...

GI library to expand access to e-books, audiobooks
Grand Island Independent
The Grand Island Public Library is turning a new leaf with a service that will expand access to e-books and audiobooks. Previously, library patrons checked out e-books and audiobooks through the Nebraska collection of the OverDrive program, ...

New audiobooks for great listening
Washington Post
THE TITANIC Disaster of a Century By Wyn Craig Wade Unabridged, Tantor, 12½ hours, 12 CDs, .99; downloads: audible.com, .99; iTunes, .95 The number of books about the Titanic is legion, but of those I've read (plenty), this one, ...

Audiobooks: SJ Watson, Ali Smith
Telegraph.co.uk
The audiobook bodes well. It is read by Susannah Harker, whose luscious voice makes a day in her company a pleasant prospect. The start grabs the attention. A woman wakes to find herself in bed with a naked man she doesn't recognise.