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Rtturvwsxmavpduc · 09-09-2011, 07:42 AM

Tis a market for this sort of thing, of course. How big is the question. Or perhaps Booktrack isn't for adults. Maybe how big can be interpreted another way as well.

There are still people who believe audiobooks are only for illiterates and the blind so it's not a stretch to imagine investors convinced more deprived folks would listen if the experience was augmented. And we should never forget the passionate group who love to fondle leather or sniff fresh ink and refuse to buy e or audiobooks because they lack those two titillations. Could Booktrack be a nascent appeal to a variation on that fetish? Personally I prefer focus on the contents rather than the container.

Amazon, et al need to clean up their act and get rid of the typos in ebooks -and I'd really love links to extended information online- but I hardly need help imagining an audiobook scene when narrated by someone like Frank Muller or Dion Graham. For those who really crave mental assistance with colors and sounds while experiencing an audiobook, drop acid. Your local lysergic source won't even ask for your e-mail address.

Did anyone else initially interpret "booktrack" as a terrifying marriage of "1984", "Fahrenheit 451" and a librarian with a fanatic attention to late fees?

09-09-2011, 07:42 AM	#9
Rtturvwsxmavpduc Member Posts: 20 Karma: 400000 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kindle	Tis a market for this sort of thing, of course. How big is the question. Or perhaps Booktrack isn't for adults. Maybe how big can be interpreted another way as well. There are still people who believe audiobooks are only for illiterates and the blind so it's not a stretch to imagine investors convinced more deprived folks would listen if the experience was augmented. And we should never forget the passionate group who love to fondle leather or sniff fresh ink and refuse to buy e or audiobooks because they lack those two titillations. Could Booktrack be a nascent appeal to a variation on that fetish? Personally I prefer focus on the contents rather than the container. Amazon, et al need to clean up their act and get rid of the typos in ebooks -and I'd really love links to extended information online- but I hardly need help imagining an audiobook scene when narrated by someone like Frank Muller or Dion Graham. For those who really crave mental assistance with colors and sounds while experiencing an audiobook, drop acid. Your local lysergic source won't even ask for your e-mail address. Did anyone else initially interpret "booktrack" as a terrifying marriage of "1984", "Fahrenheit 451" and a librarian with a fanatic attention to late fees? Last edited by Rtturvwsxmavpduc; 09-09-2011 at 08:05 AM.