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One other item to note is the AU store shows Transworld as the publisher while the CA store shows Random House Publishing as the publishers. On price, $12.99 AU$ compared to $2.99 CA$ makes the purchase from Canada quite a bit more attractive. |
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04-09-2022, 07:47 AM | #18 |
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And it looks like all the books are now back again. Strange ... but good to see it wasn't permanent.
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Audiobooks (as we know them) did not exist in 1950. That contract came later and I suspect had a longer rights time set due to the effort to produce that product. |
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04-17-2022, 12:14 PM | #21 |
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Audiobooks pre-date ebooks.
They certainly existed in 1950, but few contracts would have included them. Mostly produced for blind people. 78s (Since late 1900s, abridged, usually 12" rather than 10". 33 rpm 12" & 14" existed from 1932 for cinema but I don't know if used for talking books) LPs (1948 for microgroove: 33rpm, 16 rpm later 1950s), special format tape cartridges for blind, cassettes (maybe since 1962), CDs (1982). Only started to be marketed to regular sighted people from 1980s. MP3s invented about 1991/1992, public 1995, Winamp 1997. Portable players later. Audible's portable player ONLY for audio books (too poor for music) was early 1998. True portable players for MP3 / AAC etc started mid 1998 for Flash and HDD. By 1999 iRiver, Rio and Creative had players. Sony 1999, but they had portable CD in 1984 and minidisk in 1992. Audio books were on CD, but not on MiniDisk, though it did have pressed commercial music (dual format player). Creative had a 6 GB player over a year before Apple's 5GB first iPod released Oct 2001 in USA. At that time Cassette and CD were still the only format used by the main publishers. MP3 based "talking books" were first widely available in libraries as dedicated physical players that could be borrowed. Eventually Amazon bought Audible and now streaming/Audible is the main source of audio books and marketing now aimed at everyone rather than the blind. The cassette is still the best format for totally blind as it's much fewer cassettes than CDs, the tape remembers the place and the player can be easily operated by feel. Audio on a phone or Kindle is appalling for a blind person. |
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04-20-2022, 10:29 AM | #23 |
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Three. One is now dead.
Yes, blind people can use modern touch screen phones. Ergonomics is terrible compared to keyboard models. I tested the DXG and the KK3. Far superior to a Paperwhite 3 (needs USB) or Paperwhite 4 (BT), because the older ones had buttons. I'm not against it, but having used BETTER implemented technologies, it's poor. Anyway, my main point is that talking books / audio books were once rare and solely for the blind. Now because they are aimed at commuters, joggers, gyms etc far more titles are available. But the ergonomics are terrible. The point is they are not new and predate ebooks. Last edited by Quoth; 04-20-2022 at 10:32 AM. |
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Apparently in Canada ebooks.com is calling it the Talents Saga, not series. Otherwise it seems to be the same, except for pricing. https://www.ebooks.com/en-ca/series/the-talents-saga/
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04-26-2022, 04:49 PM | #29 |
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A bit relevant: a few years back I grabbed one of the Baen freebies, but now the only sign I can find of it on the site is this.
Since Baen uses a consistent url scheme, I was able to dig up the original page on the Wayback Machine. It seems to have disappeared sometime in 2020. Considering that the other example, the Heinlein novel, was simply marked as "not available" and the page left up, I find this curious. |
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