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Originally Posted by BenG
Think of it as a performance like different singers doing the same song. You may have someone doing a straight reading, then with someone “acting” with different voices and maybe they decide to get a celebrity to do a version.
I think some of the earliest recording were done for the blind.
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Yeah, but usually it's public domain recordings that are done by different voice artists. For more modern works, don't the authors/publishers negotiate rights with one audio company and narrator, and that's it? Before noticing the Bradbury multiple versions, the only other modern one for which I'd ever seen a multiple was Shirley Jackson's
Haunting of Hill House--the second version coincided with the movie remake, so there seemed to be some logic behind it, if not much sense.