New Books Published
Audio Books: A New Way To Look At Reading
Author: Bill Urell
What is an Audio Book?
Educators are constantly innovating and modifying the way lessons are taught to children. The challenges of physical handicap like blindness is now overcome with the emergence of new education strategies.
An audio book is an alternative form of books. From the word ‘audio’, you could almost instantly tell that audio books involve the task of listening. Indeed, it is true.
Audio books are actually books that are read aloud and recorded. Through audio book, a person who is not literate can also enjoy the content and the knowledge contained in a given book.
Authors and publishers now recognize the advantage of translating published books into audio books. Published works are intended to reach the audience and impart knowledge.
Audio books facilitate for the rolling out of such content and knowledge contained in a book to a wider scope of audience.
Unabridged and abridged
Audio books can be abridged or unabridged. In publishing, you know that unabridged books are published word for word, according to how the author exactly put words and sentences.
Same goes for unabridged audio books. Unabridged audio books are read word for word from a published book. No word or sentence has been omitted or altered.
Meanwhile, abridged audio books are the opposite. When an audio book does not contain the exact words used by the author in a book, or when some parts are omitted or revised, it is certainly an abridged audio book.
CDs, cassettes and downloadable audio books
Since audio books are recorded content, publishers and makers can make use of the compact discs, the cassette tapes, or the online portal for Web downloading.
Currently, CDs dominate the audio book format. It can be because CDs are now the ‘in thing’ when it comes to audio technology. Almost all music listeners now listen to CDs played through CD players.
Audio in CD format also can be easily stored or carried along everywhere the owner goes. CDs also have greater capacity and can be recorded with significantly longer duration, meaning more content can be contained in a single CD.
The cassette tape format for audio books currently take about 40% of the audio books sold and purchased through the market, according to estimates.
Some people still cannot let go of their old cassette tape players. For some people, cassette tapes are more convenient and are less stressful to play. That is because cassette tape players are far more simple in structure and function than CD players.
Cassette tapes are also more durable because they do not easily break even if dropped to the floor.
The fastest growing segment of format typse for audio books is the downloadable type. Downloadable audio books are the most convenient of them all, because the book is stored virtually or online. However, many people still find it hard to download contents from the Internet, because they are not familiar using the online media.
Downloadable audio books make up about 6% of the overall global audio market. But the popularity of the downloadable audio book is rapidly rising because people form around the world can easily download contents from a Web site. The modern age is also becoming more and more inclined to the use if computers.
Dramatization and know hows
Since audio books are heard, several producers have been employing voice talents to give life to the reading of book contents. Thus, a novel can now be listened to, and can somehow be a form of entertainment with the dramatic effect of the recording.
Sometimes, audio book producers also hire famous celebrities to read out the contents of the audio book. This is based on thinking that several people would appreciate it more and would be more interested if an audio book features the voice of their favorite celebrity.
Audio books, aside from being academically useful, can also be used to teach people with the procedures and processes recommended for the execution of a task.
Thus, simple know hows are better taught to the target audience if the contents are read aloud than read.
Audio books are certainly useful because they make learning easier and more fun. The eyes won’t be stressed and the listener can still perform other activities while learning and listening to the content of a book.
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In the provinces there is little chance of you finding a newly released book in English but in Paris there are over forty bookshops selling English books. Some are antiquarians and second hand, but there are several that sell new brand new books.
Here is a list of the bookshops that sell new or recently published English books, with addresses and telephone numbers:
http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/bookshop.html
http://paris.angloinfo.com/af/475/paris-and-ile-de-france-books-and-bookshops.html
Whether you can count on finding the book you are looking for on the very day it is released is not guaranteed, but you can phone them or call in personally if you are in the area.
Sometimes books are released by major booksellers ahead of the publishing date, so do not rule out finding the book you wish to buy on the shelves of major chain owned booksellers or at the airport before you leave. WH Smith number 248 on the rue de Rivoli is probably your best bet in Paris.
I can understand your eagerness to get hold of the volume that you want, but please do not let this spoil the enjoyment of visiting Paris. The book will be on the shelves when you get back home, but you may not be able to go back to Paris for a long time, so make the most of it.
Good luck!
In the US, that list is known as the Books In Print database (for books). It is run by RR Bowker, which operates the ISBN Agency in this country. All new, generally available, books should have an ISBN, and should therefore be included.
The equivalent registration for periodicals is the ISSN. I’m not sure if that agency issues a database, but I suspect that they do.
Similar things should be available in other countries. You should be able to get access to these databases through any large reference library. I wouldn’t try to do it on my own, as they tend to be pricey.
I don’t believe I know of a database that would do that. There are so many publishers and such a variety of bookwholesalers, I don’t know that this is possible.
It would be interesting to contemplate. I am a HUGE fan of To Kill a Mockingbird and I have read that Harper Lee didn’t like the publicity that came with publishing it. But there really is no way to know. They could be still writing, but they may never want it published. If their wills state what is done with their work we may or may not ever know.
I agree with some of what”Fire of Hezekiah ” said except: No has said one thing to prove camping wrong about the Biblical timeline and that has been around for 40 years now . Second : most people never really read 1994? I say this because get the book and read it. No dates from the calendar changed and again read it, camping wrote in the book 1994? that 2011 was the last year. What was wrong and he admits it : is the days were shortened.And with so much truth about 1994 It looked like they were shortened.
With that said and with many not believing camping ,there is no denying that we can know about the time.The churches ignor it because they really want this world still or they would look at these verses along with the others that they quote
Amo 9:10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
Amo 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Mat 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
1Th 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1Pe 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1Jn 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Rev 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Mic 3:4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
Hab 2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Mat 2:7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
Mat 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
Rev 10:6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
Gen 7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Gen 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Gen 7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
Mat 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Mat 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
One of my favourite authors is John Saul (its old – 10+ years) – one of his best works is “Comes the Blind Fury”
V.C. Andrews is another really good author (another old one – “Flowers in the Attic” series)
And of course the old standbys – John Grisham and Stephen King
Just started one that’s fairly new (despite the controversy its really good) “A Million Little Pieces”
I’m dying to read teh DaVinci Code – one day, one day
Journals such as Publishers Weekly update subscribers on what’s been sold and what’s on the bestsellers lists. You might consider a subscription, or you can read them at your local library.
Adds in the back of other books. Write a good enough book and word of mouth works best. Just get it on the shelves at the big places like Borders and Barnes and Nobles, and if it sells there people will see it.
My friend, check it Google search or leading book-stall.
Companies such as Princeton Review, Barron’s, Peterson’s, etc. publish new editions of their AP review books every year. This is so that they can make more money! Of course, the new editions aren’t vastly different from the previous years’, so if you want to save money, you can buy used books from years past. They are just as helpful, unless College Board has changed the format of the test in recent years (check on collegeboard’s website). Also, the best way to study for the free response part of the AP is to go to AP Central on collegeboard’s website and take free responses from previous years. They have all solutions and student samples as well.
New books??
Have u read any new books lately? Who’s ur fav. writer? (I’m asking this coz i wanna read books of some new writers, or new books of old writers). Any E.M.Foster’s new books published this year?
How can I be alerted when new books are published on a given topic?
For example, what should I do if I want to be told when new books are published about Hawaii?
How do I find a list of brand new published books ?
I would like to find a source or sources of brand new published books in the U.S.A and overseas of any subject and genre. Periodicals as well.
Past and present years will be appreciated as well.
Thank you!
How can I know which new books get published everyday in any particular subject?
How do readers want to be notified about new books just being published?
In a world where readers are inundated with choices, how can a new author reach readers in a positive manner?
Have you heard about Harold Camping’s/Family Radio’s new published books?
Have you heard about Harold Camping’s/Family Radio’s new published books? Have you read any of them? What did you think? Are there are spiritual truths that you would like to share? Did you hear about these new books: “We Are Almost There!”, “I Hope GOD will save me”, and the newest book that will hopefully come out may be called “To God Be The Glory!” What do you think?
what are the recent new books published in gujarati poems and novels….?
now a days what are the famous books in gujarati poems and novels…
What are the chances of new books being published by Salinger and Harper Lee when they die?
I think both are still writing they just don’t want the publicity that a new book would bring so they will wait till after they die.
How often are new editions of AP Books published?
I’m taking AP Microeconomics, AP Biology, and AP English next year, and I was wondering when I should by those study guides. Like when do the new ones come out, and which brands are the most helpful? Thanks, and 10 points to the best answer!
Like are there new editions yearly, or are the books just the same for a while?
Are new books published in the UK generally available in France?
A book I’ve been looking forward to has been scheduled for release on the same day that I’ll be arriving in France for a holiday with my family. The publisher is Headline in the UK (Random House in the US). Can I count on being able to find newly-published books in English in France? We’ll be staying in Paris for two weeks.