Tired of reading to your kids? Can’t take another bedtime session with Goodnight, Moon? You know it’s good for the little tykes, helps them get in to Harvard and all,… Read more »

Charges by the Authors’ Guild that the new Kindle’s audio capability were infringing on audio copyrights (as per this earlier MobyLives report) have become the subject of lots of discussion… 4 / Read more »

After sitting in a garage for nearly thirty years, a newly discovered trove of recorded readings by Philip Larkin are about to be released to the public by Faber &… Read more »

“That folks can pick up a gadget approximately the size of a cigarette lighter at their local library, programmed with a current bestseller for their listening pleasure, is the realization… Read more »

The New York Public Library has announced that “it is making 700 books — from classics to current best sellers — available to members in digital audio form for downloading… Read more »

Sales of audio books are “soaring” in Great Britain, and “the UK publishing industry is about to be hit by the same revolution that has overhauled the music world –… Read more »

“A lifelong love of literature is a good thing, even if it is experienced by other means than a solitary encounter with the printed page,” notes the pseudonymous English professor… Read more »