CogBlogged Tagged ‘audiobook’

In preparation for my upcoming long road time, I’ve been organizing some audio books to fill some of the time/space. There is a veritable bag of gold from the Internet Archive. I also found a decent selection of free (public domain) Adventure Audio Books. A small problem with them is that these are really a set of audio files (duh)– so if you are say, listening to them on a long road trip, you have to remember where you left off. However, I’ve found using the $9.95 Audio Book Builder app (Mac OS only), its easy to turn a pile of audio book files into an .m4b which plays on iDevices as an Audiobook (meaning it remembers where you left off and has handy chapter navigation hooks). So far, I have converted the following from their freely shared audio file versions to Audiobook (m4b files), and am sharing them back [...]

So the new book from Chris Anderson (a.k.a Dr Long Tail) entitled Free: The Future of a Radical Price is out in a number of FREE formats- FREE Sricbd eBook and FREE audio file downloads, plus Google Books, and maybe the comic book version is next. Or manga. Or the Numa Numa dance version. All the Big Boys are bantering abut it, be it Seth or Malcolm and the rest of the internet is in debate (or not, who can say). I’m not here to weigh in, at last not until I have read/listened to it. No matter which side of the fence you land, it ought to be a good thing to have people sussing out if this is a viable business model (for some businesses) or snake oil. Nope, I am adding one more bit of free- while you can download the MP3s of the audio book for [...]