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Audiobooks
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Xpress Reviews: Audiobooks | First Look at New Books, May 17, 2013
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Audio Reviews | May 15, 2013
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Reviews of Rita Moreno, Beautiful Ruins, and The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, plus a full list of audiobook titles from the May 15 issue.
Video Reviews | May 1, 2013
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Reviews of The Quiet Man, The Other Dream Team, and Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story, plus a full list of audio reviews from the May 1 issue.
Audio Reviews | May 1, 2013
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Reviews of The Cold Cold Ground, The Soundtrack of My Life, and Dinner with Churchill, plus a full list of audio titles from the May 1 issue.
Xpress Reviews: Audiobooks | First Look at New Books, May 3, 2013
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The final installment in Dobbs’s important “Cold War Trilogy,” a program on Nixon’s famous speech will appeal to political junkies, novellas from Mosley, literary fiction from Orhan Pamuk, fun for sf fans, Virginia Woolf’s The Years, for fans of Downton Abbey.
Xpress Reviews: Audiobooks | First Look at New Books, April 26, 2013
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Erdrich is highly recommended, Jennings’s volume is hilarious, entertaining, and surprisingly informative, Maron’s Deborah Knott series continues, Errol Morris on Jeffrey MacDonald, James Patterson—what more is there to say, and the always entertaining Wodehouse
Xpress Reviews: Audiobooks | First Look at New Books, April 19, 2013
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More from Cole’s “Realm of Blood & Mist,” Oliver Twist, Muller’s Looking for Yesterday, Soli’s magical realism, Giunta’s multiple tours of duty, Jasanoff’s historical analysis and eyewitness testimonies, Manchester’s conclusion to The Last Lion, African Americans in Mississippi, and Wisel’s stirring memoir
Audie Award Finalists Announced
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The Audio Publishers Association (APA) has announced the finalists for the 2013 Audie Awards, which recognize excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment. A selection of categories are below; the complete list can be found on the Audies site. Audiobook of the Year AMERICAN GROWN Michelle Obama Read by Michelle Obama, Jim Adams, Charlie Brandts, [...]
Audio Spotlight: Marketing Strategies Help Vitalize Audiobook Collections
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The audiobook industry continues to grow in near-equal measure in both the library and retail sectors, with the Audio Publishers Association (APA) ballparking sales at an all-time high of $1.2 billion. Libraries are in a real position to take advantage of the trend. Yet with diminished AV budgets, limited title and format availability, and a constant influx of competing downloadable and streaming offerings from the consumer realm, the prospect can be daunting. For libraries wanting to reap the benefits of increased awareness and discovery of their audio holdings, LJ spotlights some best practices in audiobook promotion, discusses some of the challenges inherent to the medium, and proposes new ways of thinking about audio that might even make it a catalyst for moving print.
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