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Michael J Fox & Buck Howdy took home the audiobook gold at the 2010 Grammy Awards last night. Here’s the complete list of winners and nominees, noting the title, narrator, and publisher.
And don’t forget to take the survey Audiobooks as a Physical Format: Dead or Alive?
Spoken Word for Adults:
WINNER:
Always Looking Up
Michael J. Fox
[Hyperion Audio]
NOMINEES:
Jonathan Winters [...]

Audiobooks as a physical format: dead or alive? BookScan reports a 19% drop in the purchase of audiobooks in 2009. A recent Publishers Weekly article by Jim Milliot showed that physical sales of audiobooks took a hard hit, while print format sales had only a mild drop in the poor economic climate. Was this a [...]

Advocate for audiobooks! Writers who love the spoken word are invited to lead their support of the audiobook publishing community. Here’s the details from the Audio Publishers Association:
June is Audiobook Month: Author Advocate Initiative
Tapping into the already broad pool of authors who love audiobooks, the APA Communications Committee is launching a widespread media initiative leading [...]

Thanks, OverDrive, for posting the answer on your blog to my request for youth stats on my post highlighting the top 2009 audiobook & eBook downloads for adults!
Here are the top 2009 audiobooks & eBooks for children & teens, downloaded from public library websites:
Most Downloaded Juvenile Fiction Audiobooks from the Library (2009)
(Title, Author, [...]

Fantastic resources & materials for teachers, librarians, and parents are yours at the click of the mouse on Listening Library / Books on Tape’s website: http://library.booksontape.com/audiobooksandliteracy.cfm. You’ll find
a wide selection of articles ranging from grant writing, to using audiobooks with English Language Learners, to increasing teen listening. Plus, the toolbox provides practical tips for using [...]

Audiobook & eBook use via library download during the past year, for your consideration. And thanks, OverDrive, for answering my request for stats so quickly Now if you could just let me know the Young Adult & Youth titles!
There are some pretty interesting (and mind boggling) numbers in the complete press release, but [...]

How the blind view the Braille / listening dilemma adds an interesting dimension to the audiobook reading / cheating debate. In The New York Times article Listening to Braille, Rachel Aviv offers a fascinating look at the evolving – and some say regressing – literacy of blind students who listen rather than read using the [...]

Enter to win the audiobook here: bit.ly/4rdpwa. Booklist’s Top Video of 2009, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women , will be shown on December 28th on PBS’s American Masters. Learn more about this film and Harriet Reisen’s companion biography in my Inside the Audiobook Studio interview with Reisen. Once you’ve decided on the [...]

New MP3 player + current movie = perfect listening choice! If you are looking for a great freebie, there’s only two days left for the downloads offered on AudioFile magazine’s Listeners’ Guide to Sherlock Holmes web page. I highlighted Naxos AudioBooks marvelous recordings of  The Complete Sherlock Holmes in this Inside the Audiobook Studio interview [...]

Neil Gaiman kicked it off, Katherine Kellgren voices the result, BBC Audiobooks America gives it to you free! Stop by BBCAA’s blog to download your MP3 of Hearts. Keys, and Puppetry and see what the Twitterverse created 140-character tweet by tweet. Wish you had taken part? Keep your fingers crossed! BBCAA’s marketing director Michele Cobb [...]