The Revival Of The Audio Book.

The revival of the audio book.

Summary: After years audio books are still going strong. Nowadays it is very easy to download audio books from the Internet, which makes them more popular then ever befor.

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Article Body: A short history of the audio book

In the Royal National Institute for the Blind in England was allready doing research on how to create audio books for the blind. At that time there were a lot of ex World War soldiers who had gone blind as a result of the fighting. In the RNIB started to use LPs to record audio books which could be played on record players (the kind with the big horn, you had to swing a handel a couple of times befor it would play).

In the Talking Book Service was launched.The first two books were:The murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie and Joseph Conrads Thyphoon. The records used at the time could hold minutes of spoken tekst, so they needed about records for an average audio book.

In the studio used by the RNIB was bombed, and one month later a replacement studio was bombed as wel.The RNIB wanted to start publishing audio books again, but they needed certain materials which had been destroyed.

In America, the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), had started producing audio books as wel, and they did send the much needed parts to help their English counterparts. Unfortunatly the shipment got lost during a bombing raid of the London harbour! A second shipment however did make it, and the RNIB was able to start again with the production of audio books.

In the sixties the audio books started to appear on casettes, and later, after the infention of the compact disk player, on CDs.

Nowadays the audio books have become more are popular then ever befor, in spite of their age. One of the main reasons for their ever growing popularity is the fact that audio books can be downloaded straight from the Internet. There are a good few audio book publishers who provide this service, and it looks like their on to a winner.

Audio books, more then years old and still gowing strong.