Tag: free audiobooks

News & Notes — 6/22/13

News & Notes — 6/22/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Judge Hears Closing Arguments in Apple Trial” and Publishers Weekly‘s Andrew Albanese summarizes both… Read more »

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News & Notes — 6/15/13

News & Notes — 6/15/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Illustrated manuscript from Timbuktu Donate to help save priceless Timbuktu library collections.  You may… Read more »

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News & Notes — 6/08/13

News & Notes — 6/08/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Amazon Executives Testify in eBook Price Fixing Case”, and their testimony upholds the DoJ’s… Read more »

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News & Notes — 6/01/13

News & Notes — 6/01/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Publishers Weekly reports on a BEA discussion between Macmillan CEO John Sargent and outgoing… Read more »

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News & Notes — 5/25/13

News & Notes — 5/25/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Amazon plans to publish fanfic — and pay royalties to both the original rights… Read more »

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Audiobooks, Free and Otherwise

Audiobooks, Free and Otherwise

Years ago, the only “books on tape” were produced for the visually-impaired.  Then someone got figured out that there might be a market for audio recordings of books, and the audiobook was born.  Audiobooks have been gaining in popularity over the last decade or so, in part because of the… Read more »

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