A rapidly growing electronic publishing trend: Audiobooks for leisure and education

Open Scholarship: Authority, Community, and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, ELPUB 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 217-222

  Engelen, Jan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Audiobooks; Commercialization; Spoken information; Talking books

Indexed keywords

AUDIOBOOKS; COMMERCIAL AVAILABILITY; COMMERCIALIZATION; LOW VISION; SPOKEN INFORMATION; TALKING BOOKS;

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84869146852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

1. Andras Arato, Laszlo Buday, Teresa Vaspori, "Hybrid Books for Blind - a New Form of Talking Books", lecture at ICCHP'96 (Linz, July 1996), in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference "Interdisciplinary Aspects on Computers Helping People with Special Needs", Schriftenreihe der Oesterreichischen Computer Ges., Band 87 (part 1), ISBN 3-85403-087-8, (Linz, July 1996)
2. Daisy consortium: http://www.daisy.org
3. The medium to use is not part of the Daisy standard. The CD-ROM format is described in the "Yellow Book": (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow- Book-%28CD-ROM-standards%29)
4. Audible.com: http://www.audible.com After having been a minority shareholder for some years, Amazon.com fully acquired Audible.com on January 31, 2008.
5. Post, Hans-Maarten, "Luisterboeken winnen terrein", p.32 in "De Standaard", 5 May 2008 (Corelio newspaper publishers, Belgium)
6. The Audio CD format ("Red Book") was developed in 1980 by Philips & Sony for high quality music recordings and specifies a maximum playing time of 78 minutes. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-Book-%28audio-CD- standard%29)
7. Paepen, Bert, "AudioKrant, the daily spoken newspaper", Proceedings of the 12th Electronic Publishing Conference (ELPUB, Toronto, July 2008). Available from: http://elpub.scix.net (Open Access)
8. Lecticus audiobook shop: http://www.lecticus.nl
9. Brazier, Helen, "The Role and Activities of the IFLA Libraries for the Blind Section", Library Trends - Volume 55, Number 4, Spring 2007, pp. 864-878