With the popularity of audiobooks, there are now many places to buy the audiobook of your choice.
Prior to the Internet, we all had no option but to physically visit the bookstores or order via phone or mail. But now with the introduction of the Internet, you can search for the exact audiobook you want, check out the cost and order it... without leaving the comfort of your home or office.
It is now safe to say that the audiobook market place is now on the Internet. Physical bookstores can't match the incredibly abundant advantages that shopping for audiobooks on the Internet provides.
The audiobook market place on the Internet gives you the opportunity to instantly search for and find the particular audiobook you are looking for.
This can't be compared to the era of physically going through several bookstores and manually checking the thousands of books available before you find the audiobook of your choice.
For those of you who don't have an online audiobook store in mind, you can get started by using the search engines to search for the audiobook title of your choice.
Below are some of the most popular audiobook market places on the Internet:
- Amazon: It has become virtually impossible to talk about books, offline or online, without mentioning Amazon.com, whether the book is a hardcover, paperback or even audiobook.
Amazon is undeniably the biggest book market place in the world, online or offline. To locate the audiobook of your choice, visit Amazon.com and search for the title of the audiobook or author's name.
You will mostly likely find the exact audiobook of your choice or be provided with alternatives when you conduct a search on the website of Amazon.com
- audiobook-zone,com: Audiobook-zone.com is undeniably becoming one of the market leaders when it comes to audiobooks. This downloadable audiobook marketplace contains thousands of book titles in many varied categories.
You can visit the website – www.audiobook-zone.com - and easily locate the audiobook you desire. Their search features are very easy to use and save users an incredible amount of time.
- Barnes & Noble: This is another very popular and highly visited audiobook market place on the Internet. Like Amazon and audiobook-zone.com, you can visit the website and use the search feature to pinpoint the exact audiobook you desire.
There are several other audiobook market places on the Internet, but the 3 mentioned above are the most popular and most secure from which you can buy your audiobooks. Buying your audiobook from any of these audiobook stores gives you complete rest of mind, as you won't have any fear of being defrauded.
Apart from these audiobook stores, there are other audiobook stores in specific categories such as business, motivational, fiction, etc.
If you don't find the particular audiobook of your choice from these 3 major audiobook stores online, then use the search engines. It will be very helpful if you know either the exact name of the author or title. If you don't, it can end up being a case of "jargon in jargon out".
In other words, if you type in the wrong name of an author of an audiobook you desire, it will be extremely difficult for you to find the particular audiobook.
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007
What is the Deal with Audiobooks?
The audiobook industry isn't too new, but there are still lots of people that don't know certain things about it.
I was also someone that was unaware about certain aspects of audiobooks.
During my early days of audiobooks, I had to ask certain questions and today I hear a lot of people asking those same questions.
Who knows, you might also have such questions and you really want to find the answers to them.
If yes, then below are some of these questions and their answers:
Q) What is an audiobook?
A) An audiobook is simply a book in audio format. Instead of receiving a physical hardcover or paperback book that you have to read, you will receive a CD, cassette or an MP3 version of the book.
Q) What formats do audiobooks come in?
A) Audiobooks come in normal cassette formats, CD formats and MP3 formats which can be played on cassette players, cd players or MP3 players respectively.
Q) What is an MP3 audio book?
A) MP3 is simply a compression technique that makes it possible for reduction to be made to audiobooks so that they use less space (sometimes as little as 80%) compared to that of cassettes or CDs.
Q) How can MP3 audiobooks be played?
A) MP3 audiobooks can be played on any new version of CD players that support the MP3 technology - mostly those that can accept a 4.75 diameter disk.
They an also be played on any PC that has Microsoft's Windows Media Player or other related software.
Q) What is an unabridged audiobook?
A) An unabridged audiobook is one that was narrated word for word. Meaning nothing has been removed from the printed book. It has the exact content with that of the printed book, but in audio format.
Q) What is an abridged audiobook?
A) An abridged audiobook is one that is shortened and doesn't contain the exact word for word narration as the printed book.
Q) What is a dramatized audiobook?
A) A dramatized audiobook, as the name implies, is a dramatized "play-life" version of the printed book, with usual full cast, music and sound effects.
Q) Where can audiobooks be bought online?
A) There are many audiobook stores on the Internet. Some of them are audiobook-zone.com, Amazon.com, and BarnesAndNobles.com to mention a few.
Q) How can I find the audiobook I would like online?
A) You can visit any of the major audiobook stores and search for the particular title you need.
If you are unable to find what you need you can then use the any of the major search engines such as Google.com.
Hopefully the above questions and answers have enlightened you enough to delve into the audiobook world. There are fantastic titles ranging from education to recreations of popular books in a dramatized format.
To get you started, audiobook-zone.com are offering discounts to their range of over 5,000 titles. If you sign up to thier newsletter you also get access to over 20 free audiobooks! You can sign up here and download audiobooks
I was also someone that was unaware about certain aspects of audiobooks.
During my early days of audiobooks, I had to ask certain questions and today I hear a lot of people asking those same questions.
Who knows, you might also have such questions and you really want to find the answers to them.
If yes, then below are some of these questions and their answers:
Q) What is an audiobook?
A) An audiobook is simply a book in audio format. Instead of receiving a physical hardcover or paperback book that you have to read, you will receive a CD, cassette or an MP3 version of the book.
Q) What formats do audiobooks come in?
A) Audiobooks come in normal cassette formats, CD formats and MP3 formats which can be played on cassette players, cd players or MP3 players respectively.
Q) What is an MP3 audio book?
A) MP3 is simply a compression technique that makes it possible for reduction to be made to audiobooks so that they use less space (sometimes as little as 80%) compared to that of cassettes or CDs.
Q) How can MP3 audiobooks be played?
A) MP3 audiobooks can be played on any new version of CD players that support the MP3 technology - mostly those that can accept a 4.75 diameter disk.
They an also be played on any PC that has Microsoft's Windows Media Player or other related software.
Q) What is an unabridged audiobook?
A) An unabridged audiobook is one that was narrated word for word. Meaning nothing has been removed from the printed book. It has the exact content with that of the printed book, but in audio format.
Q) What is an abridged audiobook?
A) An abridged audiobook is one that is shortened and doesn't contain the exact word for word narration as the printed book.
Q) What is a dramatized audiobook?
A) A dramatized audiobook, as the name implies, is a dramatized "play-life" version of the printed book, with usual full cast, music and sound effects.
Q) Where can audiobooks be bought online?
A) There are many audiobook stores on the Internet. Some of them are audiobook-zone.com, Amazon.com, and BarnesAndNobles.com to mention a few.
Q) How can I find the audiobook I would like online?
A) You can visit any of the major audiobook stores and search for the particular title you need.
If you are unable to find what you need you can then use the any of the major search engines such as Google.com.
Hopefully the above questions and answers have enlightened you enough to delve into the audiobook world. There are fantastic titles ranging from education to recreations of popular books in a dramatized format.
To get you started, audiobook-zone.com are offering discounts to their range of over 5,000 titles. If you sign up to thier newsletter you also get access to over 20 free audiobooks! You can sign up here and download audiobooks
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