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The rebirth of the audio book

A short history of the audio publication.

In 1920 the Royal National Institute for the Blind in England was allready doing research on exactly how to create audio publications for the blind. At that time there were a lot of ex-spouse World War 1 soldiers that had actually gone blind as an outcome of the fighting. In 1926 the RNIB started to utilize LP’s to record audio publications which might be used record players (the kind with the big horn, you had to swing a handel a couple of times befor it would certainly play).

In 1936 the “Talking Book Service” was launched.The first 2 books were:’The murder of Roger Ackroyd’ by Agatha Christie and Joseph Conrad’s ‘Thyphoon’. The records made use of at the time could hold 25 mins of spoken tekst, so they needed concerning 10 records for an average audio publication.

In 1940 the studio made use of by the RNIB was bombed, and one month later a substitute studio was bombed as wel.The RNIB wanted to begin publishing audio publications once more, but they required specific products which had actually been ruined.

In America, the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), had actually started creating audio books as wel, and they did send out the much required components to aid their English equivalents. Unfortunatly the delivery got shed during a bombing raid of the London harbour! A second delivery however did make it, and the RNIB had the ability to start again with the production of audio publications.

In the sixties the audio books started to show up on casettes, and later, after the infention of the compact disc player, on CD’s.

Nowadays the audio books have actually ended up being a lot more are prominent then ever before befor, in spite of their age. One of the primary reasons for their ever growing popularity is the reality that audio publications can be downloaded straight from the Internet. There are a great couple of audio book authors who provide this service, and it looks like their on to a champion.

Audio publications, even more then 70 years old and still gowing strong.

In 1926 the RNIB started to make use of LP’s to record audio publications which might be played on document players (the kind with the huge horn, you had to swing a handel a couple of times befor it would play).

In America, the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), had begun generating audio books as wel, and they did send the much required parts to help their English counterparts. A second delivery nonetheless did make it, and the RNIB was able to start once again with the production of audio publications.