The Audiobook Market Place

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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Seven Things to Consider When Buying an MP3 Player

MP3 player manufacturers didn't plan their products solely for audio books, but for music. But these days many people have started to use MP3 players for listening to audio books.

The fact that you can carry around your MP3 player, instead of listening to audio books on the PC make the players very popular.

But if you don't know what you are looking for, you might end up buying the wrong MP3 player for listening to your audio books.

Below are some of the factors to consider that will help you get the right MP3 for listening to your audio book:

1. The most important factor to consider when buying an MP3 player for your audio book is the way it handles interruption. Unlike music that you can start afresh when interrupted, it isn't so much fun to have to start an audio book from the beginning after listening to it for up to 2 hours.

So, take your time to search for MP3 players that allow users to continue from the exact spot they stopped.

You can test the MP3 player before paying for it. If it works fine, then go ahead. If it doesn't, search for another that does.

2. Ensure that the MP3 player's volume is loud enough. In as much as you can use an earphone to listen to the MP3 player, it is ideal if the volume is loud enough to be listened to in a noisy surrounding.

3. Ensure that the MP3 has a large memory. Since you would be storing your audio book in the MP3 player, you should purchase the one that has enough memory for audio books of up to 5 hours or more. Good battery life is also a must. You'd like uninterrupted playback of your audio book for maximum enjoyment.

4. The smaller an MP3 player is, the more attractive it looks. But don't sacrifice size for quality or durability.

5. Ensure that the MP3 player is manufactured by a popular brand. It wouldn't be wise to buy just any MP3 player because of low cost. There are many low quality MP3 players that are made from Asian countries. Many of these are not worth buying.

6. Get a shortlist of MP3 players that you like and look for reviews online and in magazines. See how users of the MP3 players like/dislike them. Were they value for money? Any common faults?

7. And lastly, ensure that the MP3 player that you purchase can play encrypted files. Many publishers prefer their audiobook content to be protected, so your MP3 player needs to be able to play files that are using Digital Rights Management (DRM). This is often referred to as WMA DRM.

If you are interested in listening to audio books in your car, simply get a CDMP3 player or get any AUX socket with which you can connect to an MP3 player. This makes listening to audio books ideal for on the move on long journeys.

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