We must distinguish between the physical book audio product, which comes on CD and cassettes and digital audio books that “only” can be downloaded from the Internet. But let’s see why the demand has increased accordingly. The hectic lifestyle most of us are forced to take leaves little time to sit and read a book. Transport, heavy work schedules, children, different every day used a lot of time. It is simply not enough time to take a book and sit and enjoy it. Audio book read by a professional narrator telling the story for you, is an ideal way to “read” the books they want to read a long time, but time constraints did not permit. Telling the story has a long tradition and new technology, which is gaining popularity again.
Audio book sales are growing so rapidly that the audio book industry can not remain in demand. Creating an audio version of the book is more expensive and time intensive printing. More often than not, a professional actor or narrator is used to describe a book, and there’s the cost of recording studios, the production crew, post production and packaging. Great savings can be made by making audio books available for down loadable audio files. This is also reflected in lower prices down the audio books are downloaded directly on-line audio library. Peak selling season in the spring of audio publishers of Americans to prepare for long holiday periods of driving or relaxing on the beach, and before Christmas, when people are shopping for holiday gifts. Sales will start to be much, though, as people routinely pick up audio books to feed their MP3 players.
Audio books are especially good for children who do not read due to problems in school. In this way, they become familiar with the adventure of using your imagination to paint their mental representations of what they hear, not just watching on the TV screen. They have the book and audio, along reading can help overcome reading problems. People who for one reason or another, have no reading skills they should have, but they are intellectually can listen to audio books for further study and listen to audio books self help audio language courses, etc.