The audio book is the best-selling nonfiction audio in history, according to the website.
Davidson's novel was made into an audio book read by actress Joanna Lumley in 1998.
Squires, a serial entrepreneur based in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, previously cofounded Findaway, a company that made digital audio book players called the Playaway (see story about the Playaway here).
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The company is also redesigning its title detail pages so customers can quickly find a book and purchase it in traditional print format, eBook, audio book or in other available formats.
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In addition, they depend on an array of specialty devices, such as audio book-readers, color readers, navigation tools, raised Braille labels, special bar-code scanners, and large-buttoned, voice-enabled MP3 players which are prohibitively expensive.
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If you're a marketer looking to convince customers that the simple audiobook is a quagmire of convoluted and confusing technology, you get the Playaway, an audio player and audio book all in one.
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Nevertheless, he bellied up to the microphone by himself and treated us to a brief but well-rounded survey of his expansive catalog: a selection from the Eban and Charley soundtrack, one song apiece from the albums Get Lost and Distortion, and a number originally composed for the audio book of Lemony Snicket's The Hostile Hospital.
Or a signed signature card (if you have an e-book or audio-book)?
Sipping water, singing along to music or listening to an audio-book will do just fine.
The UI supports a rich set of services, including phone calls, text messaging with vocal read-out, navigation, object recognition, social network services, remote assistance, audio-book reading, and other leisure and entertainment offerings.
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The late actor Ossie Davis narrates 47's beginning in the audio version of the book.
The Right Fight, by Saj-Nicole Joni and Damon Beyer, is available in book, e-book and audio formats.
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The Right Fight, by Saj-Nicole Joni and Damon Beyer (HarperCollins, 2010), is available in book, e-book and audio formats.
You know, the type for whom a new work is as much as event as it is a book, where multiple permutations in the form of hardcover, audio rights, the inevitable movie or TV show (and movie book editions), serialization and so on must be handled in parallel.
The access to JFK's audio and written speeches provided by this book will once again inspire those who heard and read them over forty years ago, but it will also win new converts to the Kennedy mystique among the millions of Americans who were born since 1963.
The idea's pretty novel: everyone who was involved with the magazine is invited to collaborate on both a book and a website (including audio and video) that will trace the history of the magazine.
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Even at the unit's lowest-quality audio level, listeners can't download an entire book or even most of one.
Build the same application with Apple's tools, Atkinson figures, and not only will his program run faster--it might be able to communicate with other parts of the phone, such as the address book, and, say, enable forwarding an audio clip to friends.
So rather than give on reading why not go the audio route so that you can get out and do stuff while enjoying listening to a book.
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