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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I personally wouldn't call listening to a book the same as reading a book, and most certainly not the "new reading", but it depends a bit on your definition of "reading" (saying that you can only read a book with your eyes isn't correct!).
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Of course anyone is free to give words whatever meaning they wish. As Lewis Carroll put it in "Alice Through the Looking-Glass":
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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
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It aids the process of communication, however, when we agree on a common meaning, and my preference is to stick with how the dictionary defines "read":
1. to look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.):
to read a book; to read music.
2. to utter aloud or render in speech (something written, printed, etc.):
reading a story to his children; The actor read his lines in a booming voice.
The narrator is
reading the book. I am
listening to the narrator read the book.
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And I can see where Audible comes from: somehow listening to an audiobook has a stigma (you don't count if you "only" listen to books), and it's one way to try to break it.
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As I said, it's a marketing slogan. I see no stigma - I enjoy
listening to audiobooks.