Posts tagged "audiobook" | For Readers

Laura Dern records new audio version of "Little Women"

Posted on 11/18/2019 at 09:56 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Actress Laura Dern is going all-in on the Little Women reboot. In addition to playing Marmee in the film version...

Tagged As: Audiobook, Classic literature, Movie adaptation, Pop culture

Posted on 10/29/2019 at 02:57 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

When people argue that books are dangerous, we doubt they’re envisioning traffic accidents. Yet that’s what happened — supposedly —...

Tagged As: Audiobook, Just for fun

Posted on 09/18/2019 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

When Chad Allen went completely blind, after thirteen years of slowly losing his vision, he naturally turned to audiobooks. But...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Audiobook, Graphic novel, The Guardian

Posted on 09/17/2019 at 12:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Audible has responded in court to a copyright lawsuit brought on behalf of several large publishers. It filed a legal...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Amazon, Audiobook, Lawsuit

Posted on 09/04/2019 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Testaments hasn’t even been released yet, but it’s already headed to the small screen. TIME received the scoop from...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Audiobook, New release, TV adaptation, Women in literature

Posted on 08/30/2019 at 10:03 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Audible won’t be captioning the audiobooks of several large publishers after all — or at least in the near future....

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Audiobook, Lawsuit

Posted on 08/26/2019 at 04:48 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The relationship between books and Hollywood is starting to become a little bit more reciprocal. Variety noted recently that Audible...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Amazon, Audiobook, Pop culture, The Passive Voice

Posted on 08/26/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Unless you love to debate, Discover has wonderful news to share. The magazine reports that a study originally published in...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Audiobook, Reading

Posted on 08/23/2019 at 04:11 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Big publishers weren’t happy when Audible revealed its planned Audible Captions feature last month. Today, they acted on that displeasure:...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Amazon, Audiobook, Lawsuit, Licenses, copyrights, and other legalese, Technology, The Digital Reader, The Passive Voice

Posted on 08/21/2019 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Cool or creepy? A Chinese company is using artificial intelligence to create avatars of authors to narrate their own books....

Tagged As: Audiobook, Technology