The History of Audiobooks

A BRIEF HISTORY O F AUDIOBOOKS 1930/40 1931: 1948: The Talking Book "Learning Ally" Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic → Text books for blinded program for the Blind → The invention of the audiobook veterans 1950/60 1952: 1963: First book LP recording: Christmas poems read by the author (published by Caedmon) The invention of the cassette tape 1970/80 1970's: 1985: All US libraries carry 21 publishers offer audiobooks audiobooks 1990 1992: Audiofile 1997: Magazine launches First digital audio player by Audible 1996: First Audie Awards 2000 2003: 2008: Audible available through Digital downloads become the most popular audiobook iTunes format Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiobook https://www.audiopub.org/uploads/images/backgrounds/A-HISTORY-OF- AUDIOBOOKS.pdf LovelyAudiobooks.info