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Not so long ago if you wanted to read a book you had to either buy one from a book store or go to your local library instead. Oh how things have changed!
Next up was of course the good old audio book on tape if your old enough to remember these. This was cutting edge technology in its day compared to the old 8 track cassettes and while this was a very good way to listen to an audio book or self help book quite often the tape would become stretched or would snap (but you could always edit it with some good old sellotape).
Now if you were an audio books fan you rejoiced in the coming of the CD. No more stretched tapes and they could also be played on your computer if you were lucky enough to be able to afford one in the early days of computing.
Well things move on as in anything in life and now I don't even have to go to the shops anymore. A combination of online shopping , Mp3 players and broadband internet means I can download audio books straight off the net no matter what the time of day or night, what ever next.
Yeah you've guessed it the nintendo wii. Now I don't even need to leave the house to exercise either!
So where will it all end, is this some cunning plan to stop global warming by reducing the need for you ever to leave the sanctury of your own domain. Thank heavens for social networking.
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It’s interesting how the world of arts and literature has moved and changed with the advent of the digital age. Literature for example has evolved from written tablets of stone, through papyrus (early paper) and into what we know today as a book but the changes have not stopped there. While the printing presses of the world still print books faster than ever before to keep pace with the need that we now have just to educate ourselves on the everyday items of life, even this traditional media has gone through its own metamorphosis with the advent of Audio Books. Now in the past if you mentioned the term Audio Books, people would reminisce about a book that had been transferred to one or more audio tapes. Rather than be restricted to having to stop and read a book in the traditional manner you could just listen to a book on your tape player either in your car or at home. Early audio books where not just restricted to fiction and non-fiction titles, but they became a popular way of skilling up in your free time, that is learning new skills and languages for example. As technology gathered pace and continued its relentless march forward the CD and the internet came of age and the era of the audio tape began to wither and fade as CD became the media of choice. Many businesses also began to take interest in internet technology around this time and they quickly recognised the opportunity that online retailing could bring (principally much lower overheads and no need for costly retail outlets). It also allowed them to broaden their market reach as they could effectively market to an entire country (or the world) rather than relying on shopper walking past their shop windows. Well just as the sands of time never stop flowing, nor does the pace of technology and subsequently two further technologies emerged that would shape the delivery and format of audio books for another generation. The MP3 player and the broadband internet connection. The coming together of these two technologies heralded the arrival of the next paradigm for shopping on line - Digital Downloads. Digital downloads effectively allow the consumer to save money as there is no packaging or shipping required. - 2 years ago
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