What's Audiobook?
Audiobooks are readings of books, usually narrated by one reader, but also can be dramatised with multiple actors reading different characters. And there are two kinds of audiobooks, abridged and unabridged. The abridged audio book is reading off the abridged book which has unimportant things taken out. The unabridged one contains every word from the original book.
Why Listen To Audiobooks?
There are many reasons to listen to audiobooks. For example, can you learn a language while walking the dog with a printed book? Of course you cann't.
Audiobooks are portable. If you have an iPod and buy audiobooks from iTunes Store, then you're able to enjoy those books wherever, just as the way of your digital music files. It's the same issue if you buy audio books from audible.com and put it in your Audible Ready devices. This makes you able to do other things while "reading" a book, such as when you do the gradening, cleaning the house, taking a walk...
Audiobooks save time. Many people nowadays just don't want to sit down and spend luxury time to read printed books. And when they taking a bus or waiting friends or before falling sleep at night or other alike occasions, they would just let time pass if there's no amusement possibility at that time. However, audiobooks enable them to fully use such kind of time. As time accumulates, they will find they have already read so many books(audio form) rather than wasting their time.
Low cost. The average price of an audiobook is much cheaper then a printed one. Audiobook doesn't need people to cut down trees to produce papers; it has no expensive distribution cost; it has low possibility to be damaged by the baby who is always a book destroyer; it won't fall to pieces as time goes by or because of the publishers' production quality.
Technology. With audiobooks, you're able to get them automatically bookmarked. If you stop an audiobook in the middle and play something else, then go back to the audiobook, it will start playing where you left off. And you're able to play audiobooks faster or slower than normal speed, suitable for diffrent readers even with the same book.
Audiobook Formats
Audiobooks on tapes. This kind of audio books has the longest history compared to below types. Many school teachers use such kind of tapes to teach students various knowledges, especially for foreign languages. And libraries lend out audio books in tape format as well. However, technological advancement makes such medium vanish from the market gradually.
Audiobooks on CDs. Maybe the most popular audio book format available nowadays. CD's physical characteristics save medium materials without cutting book length, so buyers can get unabridged version of their favourite books from these disks. For example, the entire Harry Potter audiobooks always with between 10 and 20 CDs.
Audiobooks in downloadable digital formats. This kind comes with newest technology. It gives you the greatest flexibility of how you play your audiobook files. You can play this kind of audiobooks in many popular portable digital devices on the go.
Buy Audiobooks Online
There are many well-stocked libraries of the world’s best-selling audiobooks online, such as iTunes Store, Amazon, Audible.com, Booksfree.com, Jiggerbug.com, etc. They have tens of thousands of titles and growing. Through online audiobook purchase website, various readers can obtain their favorite books; from awe-inspiring biographies to gripping mysteries, from side-splitting comedies and timeless classics, from self-help books to heart-stirring biography, and more.
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