Thu, March 5th, 2009
Neil Gaiman reads Blueberry Girl
Posted by: Mary Burkey
Did you fall in love with the audiobook of this year’s Newbery Award-winning The Graveyard Book? Can’t get enough of author Neil Gaiman reading to you? Sit back and enjoy this… Still need more? Watch Gaiman read The Graveyard Book to you!
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Wed, March 4th, 2009
Audiobooks + public libraries = great no-cost listening
Posted by: Mary Burkey
Tennessee Woman Spends $50,000 on Audiobooks - the great title of a Huffington Post post by Tom Alderman that turns the spotlight on Marian Bryant, the librarian who orders $50,000 of audiobooks for a consortium of public libraries. This article has great information on the huge popularity of audiobooks, including these stats: All across the [...]
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Tue, March 3rd, 2009
Content in container – carry your story as you wish!
Posted by: Mary Burkey
Publishing company Thomas Nelson wins my Audiobooker “Publisher-with-the-Right-Idea” award. Today’s Publisher Weekly carried a story by Lynn Andriani on NelsonFree, where we learn: Once readers purchase a book with the NelsonFree logo, they are directed to a Web site where they register and answer a security question. They then can download an audio MP3 file and [...]
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Sun, March 1st, 2009
Today’s Video Break – Library vs. school
Posted by: Mary Burkey
Wow. Listen up to this young man. This is why I think the school library is so important – a place that can be the refuge for students like the one in this video! Thanks to Blue Skunk for the link!
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