Audiobook Reviews, September 1, 2010

FICTION Adams, Will. The Alexander Cipher. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2010. ISBN 9781400114694. $69.99; 11 CDs. retail ed.; 2 MP3-CDs. retail ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F Adams (The Lost More...

Prepub Exploded: November 2010, Pt. 2

Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesIn this expanded version of Prepub Alert, we're continuing our coverage of November titles while casting our eye back on some October titles that should not be missed. With Bush and More...

The Lowdown on Audio Downloads

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APA/AAP To Host AudiobookStage at BEA

Six live sessions divided evenly over two daysEachpresentation to last roughly 30 minutesParticipants include Jennifer Egan, Scott BrickThe Audio Publishers Association (APA) is bringing a fresh facet to its 'Get Caught Listening'; campaign bypartnering with More...

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FictionFerris, Joshua. The Unnamed. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 8¾ hrs. Hachette Audio from BBC Audiobooks America. 2010. ISBN 978-1-60788-336-4. $89.99; 7 CDs. retail ed. Hachette Audio; Playaway digital; digital download. FAttorney Tim Farnsworth has More...

Audio News Briefs

Ingram Content Group Inc. has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to offer its inventory of 3000 downloadable digital audiobooks to military service members, their dependents, and National Guard members More...

The Fela Kuti Revival

If you haven't yet heard of Nigerian musician, composer, and activist Fela Kuti, public enemy No. 1 of that country's repressive military dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s, expect to.The last few months in particular More...

Recorded Books: Standing the Test of Time

In the late Seventies, a Maryland-based traveling salesman named Henry Trentman posted an ad at a local theater seeking an actor to read him a book on tape he could play in his car. One More...

Prepub Exploded, Oct. 2010, Pt. 1

Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesThis expanded online edition of Prepub Alert features big October titles, with authors ranging from Lee Child and Jish Gen to Bill Bryson and Robert Kaplan.Fiction | Nonfiction | My Picks More...

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FictionAuster, Paul. Invisible. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 8½ hrs. Macmillan Audio from BBC Audiobooks America. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7927-6707-7. $74.95; 6 CDs. retail ed. Macmillan Audio; digital download. FAuster himself narrates his 15th novel-following Man More...

Don't Call It Krautrock

In the late 1960s, a new generation of postwar youth in a divided Germany began making music that reflected their own surroundings and lack of a voice in the popular culture.They were influenced by the More...

Major Audio Releases

Carey, Peter. Parrot and Olivier in America. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13½ hrs. Blackstone Audio. ISBN 978-1-4417-2975-0. $109; 11 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. FFrom the two-time Booker More...

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Three Cups of Tea. Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13½ hrs. ISBN 978-1-4001-3251-5. $79.99; 11 CDs. retail ed.; 2 MP3-CDs. retail ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. SOC SCI The More...

News Briefs

And the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album goes to...Always Looking Up (LJ 6/15/09), read by the author, Michael J. Fox, from Hyperion Audio. (The Hyperion print edition was an LJ Best Seller.) More...

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U Is for Undertow. Sue Grafton. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 14 hrs. ISBN 978-1-4159-6670-9. $100; digital download. F The New York Times best-selling Marian Wood: the Putnam hc was described as "fresh, complex, fast-paced, More...

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FictionBlack, Sonny F. Bulletproof Love. 4 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 4½ hrs. Blackstone Audio and Buck 50 Prods. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4417-2078-8. $49; 4 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. FIn More...

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FictionBaldacci, David. True Blue. 12 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 14 hrs. Hachette Audio from BBC Audiobooks America. 2009. ISBN 978-1-60024-973-0. $94.99; 2 MP3-CDs. library ed.; 12 CDs. retail ed. Hachette Audio; 7 CDs. retail ed. More...

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I, Alex Cross. James Patterson. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7 hrs. ISBN 978-1-60788-000-4. $79.99; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F See Major Audio Releases, LJ 10/15/09; Tim Cain and Michael Cerveris More...

Audio News Briefs

Digital media distributor OverDrive has launched a new in-school service, AudioBook Classroom (www.audiobookclassroom.com), that enables K-12 schools to offer 1,001 contemporary and classic works in 29 subjects. The titles are available for simultaneous use and More...

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FictionAtwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 14 hrs. Books on Tape. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4159-6547-4. $100; 11 CDs. retail ed. Random Audio; digital download. FIn this freestanding companion novel to More...

Top Audiobooks of 2009

The past year's best audiobooks, all recipients of starred LJ reviews, are more varied than ever-they include a posthumously published novel (The Girl Who Played with Fire), two debut works of hard-boiled fiction (The Manual More...

Anna Katterjohn Recommends HatHeads

Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesRecommendation: HatHeads:1 Man + 2 Knitting Needles = 50 Fun Hat Designsby Trond Anfinnsen, aka Knitkid, for its down-to-earth author and real-life models. Anfinnsen, a new, self-taught knitter, knit 200 hats More...

LJ Best Audiobooks of 2009: 40 Titles, Plus Honorable Mentions

Head back toBookSmack!for more storiesThe year's best audiobooks, nominated by our distinguished roster of 65 audio reviewers and all recipients of starred LJ reviews, are more varied than ever-they include a posthumously published novel (The More...

Music for the Masses: Romantic Classical

[web-exclusive content, continued from print (LJ 12/09)]PRINT RESOURCESAll Music Guide to Classical Music: The Definitive Guide to Classical Music. Hal Leonard Group. 2005. 1608p. ed. by Chris Woodstra & others. ISBN 978-0-87930-865-0. pap. $34.95. The More...

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FictionBrockmann, Suzanne. Otherwise Engaged. 5 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 6 hrs. BBC Audiobooks America. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7927-6356-9. $59.95; Playaway digital; digital download. ROMANCEAvailable for the first time on audio and following The Kissing Game (1996), More...

Tropicália: Alegria, Alegria!

Brazilian music evokes for many images of Carnival, samba by the beach, Astrud Gilberto's delicate bossa nova-all very real. But raw psychedelia, audience riots, art as protest, musicians disappeared by the government, and other wild More...

News Briefs

Holiday-themed series entries available in multiple audio formats this month: Kate Jacobs's third "Friday Night Knitting Club" title, Knit the Season (Blackstone Audio), read by Carrington MacDuffie, and A Christmas Promise (BBC Audiobooks America), Anne More...

Behind the Mike: Dion Graham

Dion Graham won an Audie Award for his reading of Athol Dickson's River Rising (Recorded Bks., 2006), and his recordings of George Pelecanos's The Turnaround (BBC Audiobooks America) and Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard A. More...

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FictionThe Lost Symbol. Dan Brown. unabridged. 17¾ hrs. Books on Tape. 2009. ISBN 978-0-307-70406-1. $NA. F The Doubleday hc received a starred review, LJ Xpress Review, 9/18/09; Paul Michael reads.The Time Traveler's Wife. Audrey Niffenegger. More...

Tropicália: Web-exclusive Resources for Further Reading

Tropicália: Web-exclusive Resources for Further Reading ONLINEAnti-: Os MutantesWhat a long, strange trip it's been! Os Mutantes, still going strong despite losing some original members, today rub elbows with Tom Waits, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and More...

Behind The Mike: Scott Brick

Since recording his first audiobook in 1999, Audie Award winner Scott Brick (Dune: The Butlerian Jihad) has become one of the most recognized voices and highly regarded figures in the industry. He's recorded some 500 More...

Major Audio Releases

Carlin, Peter Ames. Paul McCartney: A Life. 12 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 14 hrs. Tantor Media. ISBN 978-1-4001-4385-6. $79.99; 12 CDs. retail ed.; 2 MP3-CDs. retail ed.; Playaway digital (2010). BIOGSimultaneous release with the Touchstone More...

News Briefs

OverDrive's new Media Console for Windows Mobile allows patrons with cards from a subscriber library and whose phones have the Windows Mobile operating system to download OverDrive's entire catalog of 300,000 audiobook, music, and video More...

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FictionAdiga, Aravind. Between the Assassinations. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 10 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4407-3803-6. $92.75; 9 CDs. retail ed. S. & S. Audio; Playaway digital; digital download. FAdiga's (www.aravindadiga.com) second book-following the More...

Another Twitter First: The Audiobook

Inspired by Twitter operaOctober 13 launch dateThe year of TwitterAt 12 p.m. EST on Tuesday, October 13, New York Times best-selling and Audie Award–winning fantasy author Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) will launch the world's first audiobook More...

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FictionBarton, Beverly. Cold Hearted. 10 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 11 hrs. Phoenix Audio. 2009. ISBN 978-1-59777-212-9. $39.95; Playaway digital. FPI Rick Carson's instant attraction to the widow of a murdered senator complicates his investigation of More...

Talking with Gary Giddins

Gary Giddins (garygiddins.com), whose Visions of Jazz won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1998, is perhaps best known for his longtime "Weather Bird" column for the Village Voice. His forthcoming book, More...

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The Ascent of Money. Niall Ferguson. unabridged. 11½ hrs. Tantor Media. ISBN 978-1-61545-663-5. $64.99. HIST/ECON The Penguin Pr. hc was described as "a lighthearted but thoughtful stroll through financial history," LJ 11/1/08; Simon Prebble reads.Burn. More...

Audio News Briefs

Recorded Books LLC has partnered with Transparent Language Inc. to offer Byki® (short for "Before You Know It"), a new online language-learning system designed for use by public library patrons. Users can access the system More...

The Making of an Audiobook, Continued

Head back toBookSmack!for more stories 'From the Page to Your Ears,'; LJ's BBC Audiobooks America–sponsored webcast on the making and dissemination of an audiobook, went live on September 15. In it, C.L. Quillen, coordinator of More...

Webcast:Onthe Making and Dissemination of an Audiobook

Panelists: author Spencer-Fleming,narrator TorenChallengesof narration, productiondiscussedAccess webcast archive through September 2010LJ's September 15"From the Page to Your Ears" webcaston the creation of an audiobook, sponsored by BBC Audiobooks America and moderated by C.L. Quillen, coordinator More...

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FictionAsimov, Isaac. The Currents of Space. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7½ hrs. BBC Audiobooks America. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7927-6057-3. $74.95; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; digital download. SFThis second title in Asimov's three-book "Galactic Empire" series-the More...

Audio News Briefs

BBC Audiobooks America partners this month with Hachette Audio to become the exclusive library distributor of its catalog of unabridged fiction and nonfiction audios on CD and MP3-CD and as digital downloads. Hachette titles can More...

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Finger Lickin' Fifteen. Janet Evanovich. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7 hrs. ISBN 978-0-7927-6377-2. $74.95; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F See Major Audio Releases (LJ 5/1/09); an LJ Best Seller, read More...

Audiobooks Unshackled:Direct Downloads Available to Windows Mobile Devices

OverDrive Console released for Windows Mobile operating systemAudiobooks, music, and video downloadable "over the air"Applications in the works for leading smartphones like iPhone and BlackBerryLast week, Sony hyped its new wireless ebook reader at an More...

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Fiction Allston, Aaron. Star Wars®: Fate of the Jedi; Outcast. 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 10½ hrs. Books on Tape. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4159-6007-3. $80; 8 CDs. retail ed. Random House Audio; digital download. SFNew York More...

Hip-Hop Must-Haves

When purchasing hip-hop for library collections, it's tempting to get caught up in the now. This summer's hot track, however, inevitably becomes fall's "Who's that?" and then we're left with ringtone singles and flash-in-the-pan gangsta More...

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Medusa. Clive Cussler. 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13½ hrs. ISBN 978-1-4159-6628-0. $100; digital download. F Scott Brick reads; the Putnam hc was recommended as "great summer escape reading," LJ 6/1/09.The Scarecrow. Michael Connelly. 10 More...

Audio News Briefs

Through digital media distributor OverDrive's new Advantage Program, consortium member libraries sharing downloadable media catalogs can reduce waiting lists with access to additional copies of popular digital titles on the same shared web site to More...

Top Circulators

Top-circulating adult/YA media for April 2009STATS 5 branches; 39,777 servedAudiobook CDTwilight Stephenie MeyerDownloadable AudioTwilight Stephenie MeyerDVDTwilight Catherine Hardwicke (dir.)Downloadable VideoDoc Martin: Part 1 of 6 Ben Bolt & Minkie Spiro (dirs.)Fearless Taylor SwiftViolin Concertos in More...

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FictionBrown, Dale. Rogue Forces. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 10 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-162950-1. $51.75; 10 CDs. retail ed. HarperAudio; digital download. FIn this action-filled 15th entry in Brown's (www.megafortress.com) Patrick McClanahan series-following More...

Video News Briefs

Films Media Group (FMG) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with the newest-generation release of Films on Demand, its web-based digital video delivery service, which now gives viewers access to more than 5600 educational titles More...

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

Stephen Kijak's 2008 documentary about notoriously reclusive singer Scott Walker, 30 Century Man (Oscilloscope Laboratories), which features lengthy testimonials from musicians including David Bowie (also executive producer) and Radiohead about the hold Walker continues to More...

Major Audio Releases

Brooks, Terry. A Princess of Landover. 10 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12 hrs. Brilliance Audio. ISBN 978-1-4233-9846-2. $99.97; 10 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library/retail eds.; digital download. FBrooks's sixth "Magic Kingdom of Landover" title More...

WEB EXCLUSIVE - Scott Walker: 30 Century Man [extended listings]

Blur.The Great Escape. Virgin. 1995. UPC 7-24384-08552-0.Blur contrarily celebrated Britpop domination with this album; key track "The Universal" was a florid Walker homage.Jarvis Cocker. Jarvis. Rough Trade. 2006. UPC 8-05551-05012-8.Walker produced the last album by More...

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Fiction Archer, Jeffrey. Paths of Glory. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 11 hrs. Macmillan Audio from Sound Library: BBC Audiobooks America. ISBN 978-0-7927-6009-2. $89.95; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; 10 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. Macmillan Audio; More...

Reggae Beyond Bob Marley

It's a given that your reggae music collection should include a couple of Bob Marley & The Wailers albums, but then what? What of those artists who, though lesser known, were just as influential as More...

Playaway To Give Away Preloaded Digital Audiobooks to 90 Libraries

Any authorized public library employee can enter15-title collection to feature frontlist adult and YA titles$1200 value per giveaway, plus marketing materialsFor 30 weekdays, beginning June 1 and continuing through July 10, Findaway World, creators of More...

OverDrive's Audiobook Software Upgrade To Expand iPod Compatibility

Most of OverDrive's 21,000 WMA files to become iPod-friendlyPreviously, only MP3 files transferable to Apple devicesSoftware modification keeps WMA files copyright protected.With digital media distributor OverDrive's forthcoming (mid-June) upgrade to its Media Console, Windows PC More...

Books Born Digital

It used to be that a book was published first as a hardcover, then as a lower-cost paperback. With increasingly tech-savvy consumers demanding instantaneous access to content in various formats, that publishing protocol has in More...

Q&A: Bernadette Dunne

Bernadette Dunne has recorded more than 250 titles since her reading of Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha (Books on Tape [BOT], 1998) helped put her on the map. She's voiced the works of everyone More...

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Plum Spooky. Janet Evanovich. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7½ hrs. Sound Library: BBC Audiobooks America. ISBN 978-0-7927-5999-7. $74.95; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F See Major Audio Releases, LJ 12/08; Lorelei More...

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FictionArmstrong, Kelley. Men of the Otherworld. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 11 hrs. Sound Library: BBC Audiobooks America. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7927-6046-7. $89.95. FANTASYKnown for her New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling "Women of More...

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FictionBaker, Tiffany. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County. 10 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12½ hrs. Blackstone Audio. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4332-4695-1. $29.95; 10 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. FBaker's quickly More...

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Del Toro, Guillermo & Chuck Hogan. The Strain. NA CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 13½ hrs. HarperAudio. ISBN 978-0-06-171520-4. $39.99; digital download. FBook 1 in the filmmaker's new vampire trilogy; reader TBA.Evanovich, Janet. Finger Lickin' Fifteen. More...

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FictionThe Associate. John Grisham. WMA file. unabridged. 10¾ hrs. Books on Tape. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4159-5890-2. $85. See Major Audio Releases, LJ 12/08; Erik Singer reads.Plum Spooky. Janet Evanovich. WMA file. unabridged. 6½ hrs. Sound Library: More...

Audio News Briefs

Digital audio publishing company Creative Content just signed a deal with digital media distributor OverDrive to sell its business etiquette and self-improvement titles in libraries and schools as well as through online retailers. Creative Content, More...

MM addendum

Recommended Resources PRINTThe number of Morrissey biographies has multiplied in recent years, with the above tomes joined by Len Brown's Meetings with Morrissey (Music Sales, 2008), Simon Godard's The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life More...

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FictionBazell, Josh. Beat the Reaper. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2009. ISBN 978-1-60024-432-2. $41.75; 6 CDs. retail ed. Hachette Audio. FIn this debut thriller, an intern at a run-down Manhattan hospital More...

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The Shack. William Paul Young. 14 hrs. unabridged. Oasis Audio. ISBN 978-1-60640-920-6. $89.99. F A chart-topping debut novel currently being adapted to film; Roger Mueller reads.TailSpin. Catherine Coulter. 12 hrs. unabridged. Brilliance Audio. ISBN 978-1-60640-902-2. More...

Audio Review Spotlight: Jon Meacham's American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Meacham, Jon. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House.14 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 17¼ hrs. Books on Tape. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4159-5711-0. $129; NA CDs. retail ed. abridged. NA hrs. Random House Audio; abridged/unabridged digital More...

Major Audio Must-Haves for May: Six Titles

Buckley, Christopher. Losing Mum and Pup. 9 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 10½ hrs. Hachette Audio. May 6, 2009. ISBN 978-1-60024-683-8. $34.98; digital download. AUTOBIOGThe political satiriston his famous parents; read by the author. Other Buckley More...

Hardcore: Wild in the Streets

At the dawn of the 1980s, disaffected American youth, feeling burned by Reagan and left out of disco and new wave's nonstop party, were looking for a noise to give vent to their anger and More...

Top Circulators

Top-circulating media for 2008STATS four branches; 250,000 servedAudiobook CDs-Fiction Simple GeniusDavid BaldacciTo Darkness and to DeathJulia Spencer-FlemingThe WatchmanRobert CraisAudiobook CDs-Nonfiction Inglés I: English for Spanish Speakers; el curso completo 1BPaul PimsleurOutreach SpanishWilliam C. HarveyInglés I: More...

Tantor Media: The Elephant in the Room

You'd have to be trying hard to miss Tantor Media (www.tantor.com) these days. From its scrappy start above a San Clemente, CA, garage to its 2004 move to its current Old Saybrook, CT, location, where More...

Audio: News Briefs

Thomas Nelson's new NelsonFree program makes available a book's content in multiple formats at no extra charge. Readers purchasing a physical book with the NelsonFree logo can, after registering online, download the select hardcover title More...

Hardcore: Wild in the Streets (web-exclusive; continued)

Go back to the Academic Newswire for more stories10. Gorilla Biscuits. Start Today. 1989. Revelation. UPC 0-98796-00122-6.New York's straight-edge icons injected humor into the usually dour straight-edge ideology (i.e., no drinking, no drugs).11. Minor Threat. More...

Web-exclusive audio reviews, LJ 4/1/09

Asimov, Isaac. The Stars, Like Dust. 6 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 7½ hrs. Sound Library: BBC Audiobooks America. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7927-5786-3. $64.95; 1 MP3-CD. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. SF Not all of Hugo More...

Books on Tape Lowers Prices as Part of Revamp

BOT lowers cost of titles, offers new category imprintsRedesigns web site, logo, packagingChangesintroduced today androlling out through yearIn a bid to gain a leg up in the competitive audiobook market, Books on Tape (BOT), a More...

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FictionBerntsen, Gary & Ralph Pezzullo. The Walk-In. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 8¾ hrs. Books on Tape. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4159-5754-7. $90; retail ed. abridged. Random House Audio; digital download. abridged/unabridged. FVeteran CIA operative Berntsen and More...

Audio Sequels: Greats from '08

Armstrong, Kelley. Broken (Women of the Otherworld). 10 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12 hrs. Tantor Media. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4001-3741-1. $69.99; 10 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. retail ed.; digital download. FANTASYElena, the most popular character More...

Audiobook Oldies but Goodies

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. tr. by Burton Raffel. 18 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 22½ hrs. Sound Library: BBC Audiobooks America. 2008. ISBN 976-7927-5650-7. $129.95; 2 MP3-CDs. library ed.; Playaway digital. CLASSICThis new translation by More...

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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. David Wroblewski. 18 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 21¾ hrs. ISBN 978-1-4361-4958-7. $123.75; Playaway® digital; digital download. F The Ecco hc and audio edition of this Oprah's Book Club pick both More...

NewsBriefs

Following the Apple January 6 announcement that it will be dropping digital rights management (DRM) protections from the music tracks in its iTunes store, LJ asked audiobook providers how this development might impact audiobooks in More...

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FictionAcito, Marc. Attack of the Theater People. 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 9¾ hrs. Recorded Bks. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4361-3798-0. $123.75; Playaway® digital. FIn this follow-up to Acito's How I Paid for College (2004), aspiring actor More...

His/Her Master's Voice: Exceptional Audiobook Narrators

Audiobooks are, of course, about the book, but they are also about the voice, rich, tonal, talented voices that inhabit the narration and breathe life into the characters. As wonderful as a story might be, More...

Media Amore!: A Cupid-Themed Quartet

The year opened with Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway cat-fighting their way to the altar (Bride Wars; 1/9; Fox 2000 Pictures) and Renée Zellweger finding love in small-town Minnesota (New in Town; 1/30; Lionsgate). Helping More...

Best Audiobooks of 2008

Ladies andgents of library land, lend us your ears! The best listens of 2008, selected by ourintrepid band of audio reviewers, range from tales ofBengali and Haitianimmigrantsto political autobiographies and take us from locales as More...

Apple's DRMNewsSaid To Have Little Effect on Libraries, for Now

Music from Apple's iTunes store to go DRM-freeRecorded Books, OverDrivesuggestsome additional DRM-free contentcoming tolibrariesOther audiobook providers generally optimistic about Apple developmentApple's January 6 announcement that it would be dropping digital rights management (DRM) protections from More...

Prepub Exploded: May 2009

Thrillers from Lee Child and Elmore Leonard, a prequel to Treasure Island, and old favorites like Elizabeth Berg and Elinor Lipman,plus nonfiction highlightscovering the economy, memoir,biography, and one heart-warming tale. All in this new edition More...

Free Jazz: The Shape& Sound

PRINTGiddins, Gary. Visions of Jazz: The First Century. Oxford Univ. 1998. ISBN 978-0-19-507675-2. $35. MUSICGiddins, one of the more vocal (and established) critics excited about the "new thing" of free jazz from the first sax More...

Top Circulators

Top-circulating adult/YA media, 2008 to dateSTATS 41 branches, 1.1 million servedAudiobook CDCITY LIBRARIESI Am America (and So Can You!) Stephen ColbertSUBURBAN LIBRARIESThe Appeal John GrishamDVDCITY LIBRARIESTransformers Michael BaySUBURBAN LIBRARIESJuno Jason ReitmanMusic CDCITY LIBRARIESMagic Bruce SpringsteenSUBURBAN More...

Major Audio Releases

Browne, Sylvia. All Pets Go to Heaven: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World. 4 CDs. retail ed. abridged. 5 hrs. HighBridge Audio. ISBN 978-1-59887-697-0. $26.95. PETS/SPIRITUALITYNineteen of the spiritual guide/psychic's books have More...

Audio News Briefs

Two HighBridge Audio titles for those wanting to commemorate the life and work of the late Pulitzer® Prize-winning author/Peabody® Award-winning radio host Studs Terkel: Voices of Our Time (6 CDs. retail ed. 7½ hrs. ISBN More...

Prepub Exploded: April 2009

Prepub explodes again, with details ranging from author tours to Facebook links. What's more, this edition offersmore titles than can be found in the print edition, including poetry from Rita Dove and Kay Ryan.Fiction | More...

InfoTech: One Quarter of OverDrive e-Audiobooks Now Mac-Friendly

5500 MP3 audiobooks available; 25% of catalogNew Media Console for the MacApple's share of PC market 9.5%OverDrive today announcedthe launch of its Media Console for the Mac, a beta version of which the digital media More...

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The Appeal. John Grisham. 10 CDs. library ed. unabridged. ISBN 978-1-4159-4358-8. $100; digital download. ISBN 978-1-4159-4359-5. $NA. FMichael Beck reads; an LJ Best Seller.7th Heaven. James Patterson & Maxine Paetro. 7 CDs. library ed. unabridged. More...

Behind the Mike: Simon Vance

Kick-starting LJ's inaugural "Behind the Mike" column, in which audiobook-loving library professionals interview audiobook narrators and producers, is Ophelia Lo's (Canton PL, MI) Q&A with Audie® Award winner Simon Vance (www.simonvance.com; Market Forces), who in More...

Nurturing Your Media

No other category of library materials has grown more quickly in the last several decades than audiovisual (AV), nor has any other category undergone so many changes in format. The transitions from vinyl records to More...

Media Mashup: Holiday Tidings

Whether in the mood for the heartwarming, the humorous, or the horror-laden, patrons should welcome this range of media titles covering Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. Happy holiday hunting! DVDs Black Christmas. color. 98 min.KOCH Entertainment; More...

Movie Tie-in Madness: Bond, Button, and McCarthy

Movie tie-ins are no longer strictly the stuff of sticker-slapped paperbacks; these days, all imaginable media are getting in on the action. Below are three forthcoming 2008 flicks-Quantum of Solace, The Road [as of 10/21, More...

Media Mashup: Election 2008

It takes a virtual media maelstrom to cover an election, so here's a rundown of compelling politically themed A/V and other nonbook materials for your patrons. From Sarah Palin to Michael Moore, all the firebrands More...

InfoTech: OverDrive and Audible Audiobooks Newly Compatible with Microsoft's Zune®

New Zune® firmware supports e-audiobooksBoth WMA and MP3 formats transferableFiles must still be downloaded prior to transferDigital distributor OverDrive's e-audiobooks,throughits third-generation library platform, Media Console 3.1,are now transferable to the Microsoft digital media player Zune®, More...

Playaway Preloaded Audiobooks To Gain Reload Option

Next month, audiobook devices can be sent back for reloadRevamped web site to offer more tools, optionsIs Playaway lifespan 1000 plays?Not all audiobooks sustain interest over the long term, but libraries that circulate the preloaded More...

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At the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), we offer student workshops that range from Cool New Web Stuff (what's out on the web that can help make research or just plain life easier) and More...

Collection Development "Audiobooks": Listen For Success!

It is hard to think of a group of nonfiction readers who can benefit more from audiobooks than those with an interest and need for adding to their knowledge of the business world. With multiple More...