Is Audio Really the Future of the Book?
Scholars have found that audiobooks
teach critical listening, improve vocabulary, and increase comprehension of the
written word.
For many years, audiobooks—also known
as talking books and, later, books on tape—struggled for literary legitimacy.
As the scholar Matthew Rubery reports in his new book, The Untold Story of the Talking Book
(Harvard University Press), audiobooks have been cast as the Rodney Dangerfield
of literature—they get no respect! The essence of the dispute concerns whether
listening really counts as reading.
Available at
| http://daily.jstor.org/the-future-of-the-book-is-audio/
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Pralhad
Jadhav
Senior
Manager @ Library
Khaitan & Co
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