Digital Audiobooks have been enjoying double digit sales increases for the past four years and in the past eight months the format generated over $336 million dollars and at the some point last year ...
Twenty years ago, Amazon’s Audible released the first portable audio player designed specifically for listening to audiobooks. It cost $200 and could only hold about two hours of audio. Today, readers ...
So, for some inexplicable reason, cassette tape collecting is now also a thing alongside vinyl. This time there aren't even any arguments about analog sound quality, it just seems to be a vibe but, ...
A 1/8" inch, analog audio tape format that was widely used for music distribution and home recording. In the past, millions of pre-recorded and blank cassettes were sold each year; however, sales ...
When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother... "mom, can I buy the latest Redwall audiobook tape so that I can listen to it in the car on the way to vacation?" "Yes," she replied, "but only if ...
Described by some as “Europe’s biggest tech show,” the Berlin Radio Show has long been famous for exhibiting the next big thing in consumer electronics. In 1963, that was the compact audio cassette, ...
The rise and fall of the digital compact cassette remains a salutary lesson for tech titans—it shows how you can get nearly everything right, and yet still fail badly. Like Britpop, whose 1993-1996 ...
Audiobooks are doing better than ever. Just ask Harper Collins. According to a recent earnings call, the publisher revealed audiobook sales exceeded e-books last quarter for the first time ever. NPR's ...
The Ozarks and Normandy, France are two places where audiocassettes are again being made. The two competitors are on "friendly terms." The president of National Audio Company couldn't be nicer about ...