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The 2011 Audies Awards featured on Talk of the Nation today, with Arnie Cardillo (Live Oak Media), narrator George Guidall, and Janet Benson, president Audio Publishers Association, the guests. Cardillo spoke about about his production Here in Harlem, by Walter Dean Myers, the winner of this year’s Distinguished Achievement in Production award, and mentioned ALA’s [...]

Keith Richard’s Life (Hachette Audio) is Audiobook of the Year & Here in Harlem (Live Oak Media) Distinguished Achievement in Production – top honors among 28 other winners, as named by the Audio Publishers Association during the gala Audies Award ceremony held on May 24th at the The TimesCenter in New York City. From an [...]

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Debut novelist Clark’s legal expertise forms the foundation of her thriller (you remember her as the lead prosecutor in the OJ Simpson murder trial), but it’s the fresh wit that has earned her hot new mystery Guilt by Association multiple starred reviews. I’ve got an exclusive  video below of Clark chatting with narrator January LaVoy [...]

Tantor Audio is giving away H.G. Wells’ classic until May 31st. Just visit the website here to download an MP3 of this 4-hour Steampunk original, first published in 1895 – narrated by one of the audiobook community’s best talents.  You’ll need to create a Tantor account, but no other personal info is needed. Grab this [...]

Musician Jack White puts the spotlight Amy Winter’s video that’s had over 5 million YouTube views in an NPR story The Flipside With Jack White: Why He Loves Accents, But Hates His Own by Bill Boilen. Winter recently released a vinyl 45 with White, Discourse on Accents, that starts with the classic readalong audiobook phrase [...]

The comments reflect what librarians know: times, they are a-changin’. I love the Awful Library Books blog – submissions have caused me to snort coffee out my nose more than once. The April 29 post “Books on Tape” asked readers to chime in and discuss audiobooks and formats, and specifically books on cassette.  Who still [...]