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Originally Posted by SpiderMatt
Thank you for the information. I'm interested in what the NGLP has to say about the issue. It's odd that there's a much larger selection of audio books than there is ebooks. This seems to be true of many Overdrive libraries. I wonder what it is about audio books that makes them more readily available.
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Supply and demand? I'm guessing more people are aware of and requesting for audio books rather than ebooks. When you stop and think about it, how many people have portable audio players as opposed to people with dedicated readers? I have a co-worker who bought an e-ink reader a year ago (Jetbook, I think) and when he first brought it to work, he kept getting asked what it was. Myself, I've never owned an e-ink reader. Before, I just used my PSP to read, and now, I use my iPhone so I never get asked what device I'm using. When they ask me what I'm doing, though, people seem surprised you can
read books on the PSP and iPhone.
Never been much of a fan of audio books, though. The one time I tried listening to an audio book, I fell asleep within a few minutes. I like reading better. When I read, I tend to get engrossed in the book (assuming it's a decent one) and I don't see paper and ink (or in this case, pixels on backlit LCD screens). I see a video of how I imagine the scene would look like.