Sentences with phrase «of other audiobook»

This particular post provides a roundup of other audiobook - appreciation posts from around the book blog community.

Not exact matches

If one child decides to talk in the middle of an audiobook recitation, the others will probably enforce the peace so that they can listen undisturbed.

(For a fuller picture of Bradlee, who died in 2014 at the age of 93, watch the HBO documentary about him, The Newspaperman, with much of the voice - over supplied by Bradlee's audiobook narration of his 1995 memoir, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures, which is itself a fun, bawdy read.)

Similar issues of remediation arise in most other art forms — think of audiobooks, live music vs. recorded music, an original painting vs. a reproduction, and so forth.

Not a particularly good audiobook either — some readers are more natural than others, and many of their readings seem to have been filmed in one take; Franco, for instance, noticeably flubs his lines at one point.

Certainly there are things to love; Bilbo's character progression and his untimely addiction to one precious ring is welcome (although not nearly as prominent as it ought to be), the set design and telescopic vistas are almost as epic as ever, seeing the majesty of gold - diggin» dragon Smaug realized in impressive CG tantalizes the little boy in me (the one who listened to The Hobbit audiobook until it wore out), and one particularly fun scene involving dwarves in a barrel is a blatant film highlight; but other elements that ought to stand out fall flat on their face and never recover.

I voice E-learning work along with audiobooks, commercials, and other types of projects.

If that's not enough, the base system also features standard Android Auto and Apple CarPlay connectivity, so you can bring your Google or Apple Maps on the road along with dozens of audio streaming apps for music, news, podcasts, audiobooks and other digital options.

Millions of customers download hundreds of millions of audiobooks and other spoken - word programming from Audible.

As a lifelong SF fan I have a large collection of SF audiobooks, most by «name» authors like Niven, Reynolds, Asher, McDevitt, Robinson and countless others.

When you read a book, listen to a audiobook or watch a movie, you are mainly doing it with the official Overdrive app for Android, iOS or a number of other platforms.

This year, we can all have the pleasure of hearing celebrities, actors and literary greats — Josh Radnor, Willem Defoe, Aimee Bender, George Saunders and many others — make these stories come to life in the new audiobook.

Audiobooks are now well over a billion - dollar business, and the available figures suggest that Amazon retains a far larger piece of that revenue than any other retailer.

Recorded Books LLC have changed hands with Wasserstein & Co. being the new owners of the premier company that has been providing unabridged audiobooks and other digital content or related services to schools, libraries and the open market.

The Overdrive Media console app for Android, Blackberry, iOS and a myriad of other platforms is the tool patrons use to read eBooks, listen to audiobooks or watch videos.

Adia Colar of Scribd said, «We hope that our podcast will interest current Scribd subscribers and believe it'll be a gateway for others who enjoy or are considering listening to audiobooks.»

Most libraries participating in digital lending of books via Overdrive normally have audiobooks and other content, too.

Wil Snape of Audible says, «Audible strives to bring the largest selection of audiobooks and other spoken - word content to our customers.

NEWARK, N.J. — May 11, 2016 — Audible Inc., the world's largest seller and producer of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken - word entertainment, today announced the release of a new feature that allows listeners to give any audiobook they own in their «My Library» to others instantly via e-mail, text, Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp, using their iOS, Android and Windows 10 devices.

It was a week long workshop that covered dealing with Hollywood offers, handling foreign rights offers without an agent, increasing writing productivity, estate planning and tax stuff for authors (including when it makes sense to incorporate and which type of corporation in the US), and updates from Kobo on their plans to add audiobooks to their catalogue, among many other topics.

We are dedicated to a «world enlightened by reading» by delivering the industry's largest catalog of eBooks, audiobooks and other digital media to a growing network of 38,000 libraries and schools in 70 countries.

The nook does actually have other functionality — it's got rudimentary web access and a couple of games on it, for example, and you're supposed to be able to listen to music and audiobooks as well.

The craft of audiobook production is unlike any other form of acting or voice work.

The library delivers regular books, large print books, audiobooks, DVDs and other physical materials free of charge to qualifying King Township residents.

yeah, when Amazon introduced this feature, you can share audiobooks, eBooks and a ton of other content with each other.

You can quickly navigate to the store of your choice and access eBooks, music, videos, apps, audiobooks and other useful stuff like Cloud Photos.

Over 300,000 ebooks are available and 25 GB of cloud storage is given to each owner to store audiobooks and other media.

You can shop for audiobooks, eBooks, music, video, and a slew of other content.

If you purchased an audiobook on your iPhone, it would not sync automatically to any of your other Apple products.

It will be able to read e-books, listen to audiobooks and read digital magazines, without the need of other apps.

Matthew Thornton the VP of communications of Audible explained — «One of the ways we've worked to improve the overall customer experience of listening to audiobooks is in elevating the quality of audiobook performance — embracing A-List celebrities (among those who've recorded for Audible are Colin Firth, Dustin Hoffman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kate Winslet and Susan Sarandon) as well as up - and - coming young actors at Juilliard, Yale, Stella Adler and other acting schools where Audible offers narration workshops.

They power the collections of Barnes and Noble Audiobooks, TuneIn, Scribd and dozens of others.

Honda owners will have access to five free audiobooks per Honda VIN aimed at children 5 to 16 years old for one year, the first being J. M. Barrie's classic Peter Pan and followed by four other titles of their choice.

The CEO of Playster Phil Keezer told Good e-Reader why his company got involved in audiobooks in the first place «Audiobooks were always appealing to us, but we were further buoyed by the fact other subscription services had begun to introduce credit systems for aaudiobooks in the first place «Audiobooks were always appealing to us, but we were further buoyed by the fact other subscription services had begun to introduce credit systems for aAudiobooks were always appealing to us, but we were further buoyed by the fact other subscription services had begun to introduce credit systems for audiobooksaudiobooks.

You can find other reviewers and bloggers on Twitter by subscribing to my Twitter list of audiobook reviewers and bloggers.

I'm currently working on a free audiobook version of the story, with a new chapter being released every other week.

In fact, some audiobooks of the same title sell better than others simply because of the album cover.

In other possibilities: consider translations of your book, or making an audiobook version, to reach larger audiences.

In addition to courses on DAWs, Lynda offers loads of classes in marketing, social media, web site design, and other topics useful to your audiobook business.

In other words, book publishers have been able to discourage the expansion of the online distribution of audiobooks for years.)

His original belief was that he would make most of his money from the audiobook sales via Audible, the Amazon - owned largest retail site for audiobooks, but the reality was, the majority of his earnings came from several other sales channels.

I also set up a discount code which is in the back of all the ebooks and print books so those who have already bought the book in other formats can also get the audiobook version if they like for $ 5 reduction.

So, all other things aside, I'd say probably over the next 15 years you'll see a lot of audiobook usage move to Alexa - like devices, or move to interneted things.

Audiobooks have been known to perform better than other formats of the same title, however it's key to tie audio into the main book campaign as this will enable a far wider and more impactful reach.

Unfortunately the Kindle Audio Adapter does not work with other forms of audio content, so audiobooks and music files still can not be played.

You may also find other articles of interest in my audiobooks category.

You will get the critical elements on what steps you need to take; how to engage a narrator (and what to avoid); what costs to expect; how to produce your audiobook; a variety of resources; how to work with Amazon and ACX and other providers; and of course, plenty of tips and tricks of the trade.

He talked about his criteria for book selection and other topics of interest to audiobook narrators.

Besides, the growing trend (which means more fans) audiobooks give us a number of other advantages as well including, additional revenue streams, unique marketing opportunities, and interesting production techniques.

This page will give you lots of ideas about audiobook promotion, but you can use them to promote the other editions as well.