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Audible is an American online audiobook and podcast service that allows users to purchase and stream audiobooks and other forms of spoken word content. This content can be purchased individually or under a subscription model where the user receives "credits" that can be redeemed for content monthly and receive access to a curated on-demand library of content.
From 2023 it has been awarded as Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording. [2] Poetry reading now has its own Grammy category, Best Spoken Word Poetry Album . Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for a recording released in the previous year.
Radio audiobook is a radio programming format for audiobooks. The programming is usually in series format due to the length of the books. The books may be abridged or unabridged, sometimes as dramatisations. The productions may be for radio only, or also distributed through other media such as vinyl record, cassette tape, CD-ROM and digital ...
An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud. A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements. Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops since the 1930s.
Blackstone Audio is an independent audiobook publisher in the United States, offering over 25,000 audiobooks. [1] The company is based in Ashland , Oregon , with five in-house recording studios. Blackstone distributes directly to consumers via their subscription e-commerce site, Downpour.com, and to the library market with titles from ...
The Library of America [4] (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents.
American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American literature, history, society, and culture. [1] It traditionally incorporates American historiography, literary criticism, and critical theory. Scholarship in American studies focuses on the United States.
Michael Kramer is an American audiobook narrator. [1] Kramer has recorded over a hundred audiobooks for trade publishers and has participated in the Library of Congress's Talking Books program. [ 2 ]