The songs were written for the audiobook version of the Lemony Snicket children's book series.
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The Tragic Treasury is a collection of songs included on the audiobook versions of the Lemony Snicket books.
K. Rowling's website started selling digital and audiobook editions of all seven Harry Potter novels to English-language readers.
It also means that she could join the Crime Writers Association because her audiobook contract made her eligible.
But an interesting aspect of e-book and audiobook technology is its potential to improve the accessibility of written content.
Little, Brown also acquired audiobook rights, and e-book rights, a coup in itself given the growth of the digital-book market.
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Pew found that nearly three-fourths of U.S. adults read a printed book in 2011, and 11% listened to an audiobook.
So it makes more sense for me to record an audiobook instead.
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The result: buy another Sonos ZonePlayer S5 and you can cue up music from Pandora in one room, and an audiobook from iTunes in another.
Judith McGuinn, the VP and director of Time Warner AudioBooks, says digital distribution can expand the audiobook market as both a marketing tool and supplemental revenue stream.
Audible content comprises over 135, 000 audio programs from more than 2, 700 content providers, including leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers and business information providers.
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We were also the first company to release our Audiobooks on both CD and cassette at a time when the Audiobook departments in bookshops were called Books on Tape.
He is a popular keynote speaker and author of several books, including the international bestsellers The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs which has just been released as an audiobook.
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Logan and team have written it up in a very elegant book, Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, which they are giving away here as a free audiobook.
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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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One very interesting new feature just for the Kindle Fire is Immersion Reading, which allows you to listen to the audiobook version of a title, while the corresponding words are highlighted in the Kindle version.
With Audible's innovative Whispersync for Voice technology, BMW owners can also switch seamlessly between reading a book on their Kindle at home and listening to the companion audiobook in the car via their iPhone app-without losing their place.
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He is a popular keynote speaker and author of several books, including the international bestsellers The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs which has just been released as an audiobook and The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs.
Now, Amazon is extending Whispersync to professionally narrated audiobooks - customers can start reading a book on their Kindle, and seamlessly switch to listening to their corresponding Whispersync for Voice-enabled audiobook from Audible on their phone or tablet, picking up exactly where they left off.
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The cameras roll and without missing a beat, he slips into his deranged millionaire persona, a character that has popped up a bit over the past few years, as Hodgman has wrapped up his trilogy of "complete world knowledge, " the last entry of which, "That is All, " was released in paperback and audiobook forms this week.
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