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Learn about Audiobook Month
Who doesn’t love cozying down with a good book now and then? It’s a great way to pass the time and can take you on wonderful adventures in other worlds, or recount amazing lives of people in this one. Even better, there’s little that helps one drift off to sleep as easy as a good book, though the peril exists of being caught up in ‘just one more chapter’ mode. The problem is, you can’t read while you’re driving, or when it’s completely dark, can you? What if you could? Audiobook Month celebrates the invention that made this all possible! The audiobook!
History of Audiobook Month
Almost from the moment that a method of recording the human voice became available, audiobooks have been in existence. When Thomas Edison first invented the phonograph, Phonographic Books were one of the ideas that he had in mind for those who were sight-impaired. Even his first words spoke of this vision, with “Mary had a little lamb” being the first words he spoke into a phonograph. A year later he demonstrated the capacity of the phonograph at the Royal Institution in Britain, where a recorded verse of Tennyson’s poetry was played back for the attendees.
Unfortunately, his original vision wasn’t to be, as the original cylinders used with the phonograph only held about 4 minutes of audio, and even when they switched to the flat platters the duration was only 12 minutes, hardly sufficient for the recording of long chapter books. While the 60-minute cassette developed in the 70’s helped the situation, it wasn’t until the invention of the CD that Audiobooks really came into their own. Audiobook Month celebrates these wonderful tales on tape and the millions of people they aid every year.
11 ways to celebrate Audio book month
- Follow @BOTLibrary on Facebook and Twitter for breaking audio news.
- Fill your patrons’ beach bags with hot new audiobooks.
- Purchase audio tie-ins for schools’ reading lists.
- Speed up any road trip with family listening.
- Plan book clubs.
- Include audio in your LibraryReads displays.
- Turn up the heat on your displays with FREE materials.
- Audiobooks are more accessible than ever!
- Score free audiobook downloads
- Share our podcast
- Follow the Audio Publishers Association on Facebookand Twitter for more celebration ideas and breaking audio news.
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