The untold story of the talking book /

"This work is the first history of recorded literature since Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877. It traces the tradition from phonographic books made on wax cylinders to talking books made for blinded soldiers returning from the First World War and, much later, the commerc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rubery, Matthew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Temas:
Audiobooks > History.
Literature and technology > History.
Talking books > History.
Livres audio > Histoire.
Littérature et technologie > Histoire.
Livres audio pour personnes handicapées visuelles > Histoire.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Publishing.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
Audiobooks.
Literature and technology.
Talking books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is the history of audiobooks?
  • The phonographic library. Canned literature
  • Blindness, disability, and talking book records. A talking book in every corner of dark-land ; How to read a talking book ; A free press for the blind ; From shell shock to shellac ; Unrecordable
  • Audiobooks on and off the road. Caedmon's third dimension ; Tapeworms ; Audio revolution
  • Afterword : speed listening.

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