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The band's lush music could easily lull someone into slumber. Not because it's boring but because the tempo is mellow and the sounds are supremely beautiful. It's as if your mother were reading ...

Debbie Jacobs and Lisa Eye from the Talking Book Center presented information to the BCSC members about books on tape. Debbie explained the eligibility requirements and demonstrated the ease of using ...

A group at Harvard is trying to do online what would have been impossible before the Internet: compile a library of nearly every book available (see “The Library of Utopia.”) The project is ambitious, ...

I’m an English professor, so of course I enjoy reading. But looking back on my childhood, I am certain that my interest in literature was stimulated not so much by reading books myself as by listening ...

His desire to listen to something enriching on his daily commute led him to start the company whose success made audiobooks a commercial phenomenon. By Richard Sandomir Duvall Hecht, whose boredom at ...

Daniel Roth, editorial director of Simon and Schuster`s audio publishing division, is reflecting on the skyrocketing demand for nonmusical audiocassettes. ”This is a technological extension of telling ...

Former President Joe Biden shared unfortunate news with the public over the weekend: He was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to the bone. The news about his Stage 4 ...

Pop quiz: how do you take your tunes? Most formats have their fans: purists pick vinyl; kids dig MP3s; the rest of us stick to compact discs. But the audiocassette? With its hiss, its tangles of tape, ...

Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto formed the Books in 2000, shortly after being introduced by a friend. The two were drawn together by their mutual love of collecting and manipulating the sounds around ...