February 2010

Audiobook News | 100 Stories for Haiti, Lady Gaga, RapidShare, Nintendo eBooks

by DorothyD on February 26, 2010

Overdrive adding new features, audio books selling well, and Lady Gaga narrating a children’s book… Read on…. 100 Stories for Haiti. The 100 Stories for Haiti book project is going strong! Pre-orders for the paperback edition are now being accepted at 100 Stories for Haiti . The cost is £11.99 plus shipping. Remember that all proceeds go [...]

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New Audio Book Releases | UR by Stephen King, Big Girl by Danielle Steel.

by DorothyD on February 25, 2010

There are so many wonderful audio books out there. How do you decide what to read next? There’s something for everyone this week: horror, mystery, literary fiction… So, what will you read next? UR by Stephen King, narrated by Holter Graham. Just when I was warming up to the idea of a Kindle or nook, [...]

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Pop Culture Watch: Read an Audiobook from the Popular TV Show LOST (Part 2)

by DorothyD on February 24, 2010

Yesterday, I admitted my addiction to the television show, LOST. I have managed to refrain from postulating about the Island or going on about my theories of good and evil and symbolism and… Oh, sorry. I really am an addict. Anyway, in my last blog, I shared the audio book details of just a few [...]

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Pop Culture Watch: Read an Audiobook from the Popular TV Show LOST

by DorothyD on February 23, 2010

I am a complete LOST addict. I started watching the summer after the first season aired when I became hooked on the repeats. Since then, I can’t get enough. I watch and re-watch. I have written about the show, theorized about it, and generally read everything I can find about it, in audio book, eBook, or a hardcover [...]

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Audio Book News | Vook is Expanding

by DorothyD on February 22, 2010

I’ve mentioned Vooks here before, but I think it’s time for an update. About a year ago, Brad Inman started Vook, a creation that combines videos and photos with text. Vooks basically strive to make reading a multimedia experience. They are currently available online and as downloads for iPods, iPhones, and soon, the iPad. Vook [...]

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Audio Book News | Featuring Google Buzz, Amazon and the Twitter Project

by DorothyD on February 20, 2010

G oogle launched its idea of a social media outlet with Buzz last week. It quickly turned into a fiasco as the program immediately took users’ most frequent email contacts and automatically added them to the person’s stream and publicized lists of followers. Apparently, they thought this would streamline the process used by facebook, where [...]

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New Audio Book Releases | Big Novels from Big Authors

by DorothyD on February 18, 2010

A quick note: To those of you who were intrigued by the BBCAA/Neil Gaiman/Twitterverse collaboration a few months ago… a new audiobook is in the works. Yesterday, bestselling author Meg Cabot tweeted the first line: “Every girl at Guru Fashion Agency had an eye on the hot new guy, Jake. So Carly was shocked when [...]

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