Today I had the honor of writing a review on an awesome
audiobook blog, Audiobook Heaven. Call me the guest author for the day.
Audiobooks is a craze that isn’t going away any time soon.
It’s not a passing fad, instead it seems to be the end of curling up on the
sofa and reading page by flipping page, by holding an actual book in your hand.
We have Ebooks, Ereaders, Audiobooks and the same with
publishers. It scares me as a writer, to want to get my book ‘published’,
because what does that mean exactly? Will it be on pages, read by people or
will it be in an audible format or Ereader where no one will fill their hands
with my actual words in a paper bound book?
Audiobooks are to the writing industry, what cell phones are
to landlines, what email is to snail-mail, what the massive exodus of internet
and social sites are to speaking face-to-face, they are a quick means to an
end.
While I love the audiobook industry, ripe with
bloggers-a-plenty. The Twittersphere is crawling with audiophiles; Facebook is
streaming with pages of audio lovers, and I can also find a couple of the
narrators there too. The internet is all abuzz with sounds; with the likes of
YouTube, you never have to leave your desk chair. The audiobook community is a
world of its own there.
Audiobooks are a sheer delight in that, you DON’T need to be
sitting in a chair to read your book. You can be exercising on a treadmill,
running the morning’s park-path, driving in the car, everything except shower
(until they come up with a water resistant mp3 player)!
Audiobooks are here to stay just as the internet is here to
stay and deliver you the information you just couldn’t get from a face-to-face
conversation or leafing through a book. Sometimes an audible rendition is good
for the soul, too.
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