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  • Custom Skins for the Amazon Kindle: Protect and Personalize Electronic Reading Devices |

  • Date: Nov 16, 2009
    A custom skin is the ideal way to give light protection to an Amazon Kindle while also customizing its look. Buy a ready made skin for a Kindle or create a unique design. More

  • Listening To: Audiobooks

  • Source: www.jsonline.com Date: Nov 14, 2009
    Checker and the DerailleursBy Lionel ShriverBrilliance Audio. Nine CDs. $36.99One of the joys of audio is that it often breathes new life into older books. Though originally published in 1988, Lionel Shriver's second novel, Checker and the Derailleurs, is energetic, unexpectedly More

  • Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier

  • Source: booksforears.com Date: Oct 27, 2009
    Rag and Bone Shop Author: Robert Cormier Reader: Scott Shina Short Review: Cormier's final novel, published posthumously, read by the ... More

  • EcontentMag.com: OverDrive Releases Audiobook Application for Windows Mobile

  • Date: Sep 11, 2009
    Digital audiobook and ebook distributor OverDrive has announced the release of the first in a series of free digital book applications for mobile devices. More

  • OverDrive Releases Digital Audiobook Application for Windows Mobile(R) - Zibb.com

  • Source: Comtex Date: Sep 9, 2009
    OverDrive (www.overdrive.com), the leading global distributor of digital audiobooks and eBooks to libraries and retailers, announced the release of the first in a series of free digital book applications for mobile devices. OverDrive(R) Media Console(TM) for Windows Mobile(R) More

  • Audio Play Imelda Staunton &Tessa Peake-Jones: Review – Goose Downloadable Audio Drama Recording by

  • Date: Sep 9, 2009
    Helen Kluger's thrilling audio drama Goose has set the feathers flying in what is thought to be an Internet first, a play specifically to be downloaded. More

  • Canongate launches Cave audiobook | theBookseller.com

  • Date: Sep 3, 2009
    Canongate has launched an unabridged audiobook of Nick Cave's new novel The Death of Bunny Munro, featuring an original soundtrack by Cave and his long-time collaborator Warren Ellis. More

  • BBC Audiobooks on the block

  • Source: www.bookbrunch.co.uk Date: Aug 28, 2009
    BookBrunch - information, discussion, news and events for the publishing and book trade More

  • Pope's Encyclical Launches Publisher's Expansion in Electronic and Audio Books

  • Source: news.prnewswire.com Date: Jul 7, 2009
    ), is now publishing its titles in three formats - print, electronic, and audio - beginning with today's release of Pope Benedict's new encyclical, Charity in Truth, on the world economy. More

  • AudibleKids Enhanced Combines Pictures and Words

  • Source: childrensaudiobooks.suite101.com Date: Jun 29, 2009
    AudibleKids is making a series of picture books available as audiobooks. The images are synchronized to the text meaning that children can view the original images. More

  • Thanks To Downloads, Audiobooks On The Rise In Britain

  • Source: www.artsjournal.com Date: Apr 8, 2009
    "The digital generation has sparked a revivial in Britain's love of audiobooks as figures from the BBC show there have been one million downloads of spoken word titles. ... The US remains the biggest consumer of BBC audio books," but the trend is picking up here.... More

  • Simply Audiobooks Ditches DRM For Some Titles

  • Source: www.readersread.com Date: Jul 3, 2008
    Simply Audiobooks has announced a planto make many Random House audio titles available for sale by download in a DRM-free format. 5,000 titles will be available without the Digital Rights Management features that consumers hate so More

  • Renew That Library Card: DC Public Library Starts Lending DRM-Free Audiobooks

  • Source: www.paidcontent.org Date: Jun 25, 2008
    Offering something for free doesn't guarantee people will make the most of it. The latest example: eBooks distributor OverDrive says providing DRM-protected audiobooks to public libraries in the WMA format has discouraged iPod-centric More

  • Michael Phillips on Fiction and E-Books

  • Source: www.omnivoracious.com Date: Jun 25, 2008
    Last week, in one of those surprising coincidences that seem to happen more often than they should, Michael Phillips emailed me. Phillips had read and enjoyed my novel Veniss Underground and was looking for an e-version of City of Saints... More

  • New Online Publisher Offers Up DRM-free Audio books

  • Source: avidbookreader.com Date: May 23, 2008
    I ran across this site called, Sniplits, an online publisher (beta site) that offers DRM-free audio books. Like the title says, it is a snip of time, with story More

  • Today’s video break: Close encounters of the banjo kind

  • Source: audiobooker.booklistonline.com Date: Nov 21, 2009
    I can hear Truffaut laughing in his grave.Close Encounters of the Redneck Kind from Marc Bullard on Vimeo. Thanks to Neatorama for the link! More

  • AudioBookCase Audiobook Publishers Launches New Facebook Fan Page

  • Source: www.prlog.org Date: Nov 18, 2009
    AudioBookCase Audiobook Publishers Launches New Facebook Fan Page. SHELTON, CT--(AudioBookCase.com. – November 18, 2009) – AudioBookCase Audiobook Publishers is pleased to announce the launch of the publisher's official Facebook Fan Page. More

  • Intel Reader: Audio Assistive Technology

  • Source: audiobooker.booklistonline.com Date: Nov 18, 2009
    Point. Shoot. Capture text. Listen or read enlarged text on screen. Intel Reader assistive technology is amazing.  Watch the unit in action in this video and learn more:There has never been a mobile device quite like the Intel® Reader. Such convenient access to the printed word can be life changing More

  • Paging Through: Audiobooks

  • Source: www.jsonline.com Date: Oct 31, 2009
    The Strain. By Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. Harper Audio. Eleven CDs. $39.99.Pretty boy bloodsuckers and teenage vamps are all the rage this decade, but director Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) and thriller writer Chuck Hogan have devised a messy, unlovely, creepy vampire More

  • Audio Book Rentals - Rent Audiobooks

  • Source: audiobooks.suite101.com Date: Oct 13, 2009
    Audio book rentals can be a great alternative to buying audio books. Many plans work in a similar way to Netflix and there are a wide range of rental options available. More

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