The Christian Science Monitor

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Step into one-of-a-kind life journeys in Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ and ‘In the Land of Invisible Women’ by Qanta A. Ahmed.

APC

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You can’t argue with the value of free. That’s especially true if you need to take care of something as a one-off, and need a particular app to use for the task. It’s tough to justify spending money on anything in these circumstances, especially when

Poets & Writers

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MICHAEL BOURNE is a contributing editor of Poets & Writers Magazine. FOR nearly thirty years Chris Lynch, president and publisher of Simon & Schuster Audio, has had a front-row seat for the audiobook revolution. In 1989, when Lynch first joined Simon

TechLife News

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Melanie Musson in Belgrade, Montana, does a lot of driving with her four girls. Juggling a broad age range, 1 to 9, she’s forever searching for ways to keep them all entertained without relying entirely on video. While she still adores paper and tabl

Writer's Digest

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Self-published authors seeking to publish audiobooks have several options that vary in terms of the amount of work done and profit earned by the author and reader. Readers can join and add their profiles to services such as Findaway Voices, Spoken Re

Apple Magazine

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Melanie Musson in Belgrade, Montana, does a lot of driving with her four girls. Juggling a broad age range, 1 to 9, she’s forever searching for ways to keep them all entertained without relying entirely on video. While she still adores paper and tabl

The Caravan

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1 "It is not for me as I am too busy and don't get time to read" False We lead a busy life where reading habits are taking a back seat. The most commonly stated reason is 'I no longer have that kind of time'. Audiobooks are a companion to your active

Linux Format

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Because audiobooks use the same tags as your music files, you need to ‘translate’ audiobook information to music-based tags. There’s no common standard for which tags to use, so much will depend on how your audiobook player translates those tags. Try

Writing Magazine

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Audiobooks have been one of the recent successes of book production, in many ways due to the commercial determination of Amazon. But there are other reasons that make the new wave of audiobooks successful: • They have better reach for readers who pre

AdNews

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Writing is an exercise in maybe. Maybe someone will read it. Maybe they won’t. Maybe they will like it. Maybe they won’t. You won’t know until words appear on paper (or pixels). And that’s the thing — getting the words down, and in the right order. S

APC

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Having brought all your audiobooks together, now all you need to do is play them. If you only plan to listen to them on your PC, both iTunes and MusicBee (https://getmusicbee.com) offer dedicated audiobook views, enabling you to not just split your a

Your Family

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Rather than allowing endless hours of screen time, it seems a growing number of parents are encouraging their young kids to listen to audiobooks instead. Recent statistics by Pinterest, for example, indicate that ‘audio storytellers’ have increased b

The Christian Science Monitor

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Step into one-of-a-kind life journeys in Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ and ‘In the Land of Invisible Women’ by Qanta A. Ahmed.

Writer's Digest

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Defying a downward trend in book sales across much of the traditional publishing world, the audiobook market has seen a meteoric rise over the past few years. According to Publishers Weekly, audiobook sales rose nearly 25 percent in 2018, totaling al

Linux Format

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When it comes to assigning genres to your audiobooks, avoid the generic ‘Audiobook’ to come up with specific book genres like Mystery or Sci-Fi. Search www.goodreads. com to see how other readers have categorised a book, if necessary. Fancy turning

Radio Ink Magazine

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Many talent and producers who have found themselves out of a job recently are looking for new life in podcasting. Creating podcasts is fun and can be rewarding, but launching them and making them successful as moneymakers is very hard. You’ll have to

T3 India

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Q RAM SHARMA Which display should I add to my smart home? A This is a tough question, because there are so many potential uses for a smart home screen, and several platforms. If you’re tied to Google Home, you won’t want an Alexa device, and vice v

Literary Hub

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With the coronavirus pandemic keeping us indoors, early numbers suggest a surge in book sales. Audio and eBooks in particular have seen a sudden rise. It has also been a tough time for bookstores. Independent bookstores have had to move online, many

APC

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Want to listen to audiobooks on your Android phone? The obvious solution is to install the official Booksonic app ($4.99), which not only streams books from your server to save space on your phone, but enables you to mark individual titles for listen

APC

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We all love a good story – after all, telling stories around the fire is as old as human language itself. Audiobooks – and radio dramatisations – continue that tradition into the modern age, and thanks to your phone and PC, give you the opportunity t

Poets & Writers

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MICHAEL BOURNE is a contributing editor of Poets & Writers Magazine. FOR nearly thirty years Chris Lynch, president and publisher of Simon & Schuster Audio, has had a front-row seat for the audiobook revolution. In 1989, when Lynch first joined Simon

Literary Hub

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For book lovers, Small Business Saturday means a trip to the local independent bookstore, many of which invite local authors to hang out and make recommendations. If you’re an audiobook lover you can still support small businesses, and I don’t mean p

Radio Ink Magazine

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I’ll admit it. I’m a baby boomer. I grew up on radio, and I’m proud of it. Not the console set families gathered around before the television era. I’m not that old — but transistor radios, the predecessors to iPods. Only we didn’t program our own mus

NPR

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It's our third year, so we decided to go big or go home. This year we're opening up the contest to college students!

AdNews

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From elections, to Royal Commissions to global trade wars, 2019 has been challenging in economic terms. While the downturn of 2019 has been more prolonged than expected, we will see some marginal improvements into next year with some growth in busine

APC

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There’s no common standard for which tags to use, so much will depend on how your audiobook player translates those tags. Try the following tag scheme: Author (First name Last name) should be Artist, while Narrator (again First Name Last Name) should

NPR

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Everything you need to know to submit to the NPR Student Podcast Challenge: College Edition

MacLife

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IN LAST ISSUE’S tutorial, you got started with Anchor and learned the basics of recording and assembling audio clips into a podcast episode. But to be really professional about your show, it’s likely that you’ll need to do some tidying up, so that it

NPR

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Have you ever wanted to watch video of the people who make NPR acting out Planet Money stories? Well, who asked you anyway.

T3

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Q JACK GREEN, RUISLIP Which display should I add to my smart home? A This is a tough question, because there are so many potential uses for a smart home screen, and several platforms. If you’re tied to Google Home, you won’t want an Alexa device, and