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This story in today’s New York Times reminds us of the importance of reading in a child’s life – and to men behind bars who do not want to be forgotten by their children. Kudos to the NY Public Library for developing the Daddy & Me literacy outreach program where fathers read and record children’s [...]

Early presents! Booklist’s complete list of 2010′s top titles & five chances to win. Thirteen is your lucky number – you’ll find 13 audiobook titles for adults, and 13 for children & teens on the list below, linked to the Booklist reviews for more information, plus 13 days to win. Ever wonder just HOW many [...]

The British Museum wants you to narrate a book! Think you’ve got what it takes? Join the worldwide project to collect as many English-speaking voices as possible reading Mr. Tickle by Roger Hargreaves. Yup, from the good old Mr. Men books my kids read when they were small (and who knew? They are still on [...]

List of 2010′s top titles abound, so let’s take a look at the audiobook best-of-the-year buzz. Last week, Booklist named The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest as the year’s top audiobook title, however the rest of the Booklist Editor’s Choice list won’t be released until January. But never fear – there are still plenty [...]

Congratulations to the top 2010 audiobook: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson, read by Simon Vance and produced by Books on Tape. One of only eight titles on Booklist Magazine’s best-of-the-best Top of the List awards list – selected from the year’s Editor’s Choice titles, which will be announced in the [...]

Settle in with a cup of hot cocoa and  listen to master narrator Scott Brick explain the power of the recorded word to evoke emotion, in the story of a perfect Christmas gift in Brick’s misty-eyed blog post you can read here. Here’s how it starts… Despite the fact that I’m writing this on July [...]

Here’s a great holiday gift from Tales2Go to cash-strapped schools & other educational programs. I suspect there are more than a few schools using iPod Touchs as hand-held computing devices, plus a few iPhone-toting teachers who will be convinced to put their phones to use in the classroom. Do you have any of the devices [...]

Here’s another example of sound integrated into electronic print: Naxos’ Tchaikovsky – His Life and Music by Jeremy Siepmann. Back in August of 2009, I interviewed Naxos’ co-founder & publisher Nicolas Soames. Here’s a quote from that interview: What future trends or changing perceptions or technologies do you think will have the greatest/worst/revolutionary impact on [...]

Watch this video – and marvel at the genius of Monochonic’s mashup of Roxanne + Rudolph! Thanks, Neatorama!

Public domain titles such as Oprah’s A Tale of Two Cities & Great Expectations make for perfect do-it-yourself enhanced ebooks – as detailed in this post on combining free audiobooks from LibriVox & free ebooks – whether from OverDrive’s no-cost additions to your library download center, or from the treasure trove released by Google Books [...]