Melville House Books

Audiobooks

• Moby-Dick Big Read audio project

  The Moby-Dick Big Read project, aimed at getting more people to read Herman Melville’s classic novel, launched earlier this week. The project is the brainchild of author Philip Hoare and artist… Read more »

• Massive Proust audiobook coming this fall

  Naxos AudioBooks has finished recording the audio for Marcel Proust’s notriously long novel, Remembrance of Things Past. Originally published in France between 1913-1927 in seven volumes as A la recherche… 1 / Read more »

• Top audiobook award goes to Tina Fey; Jane Austen defeats Kardashians

  Earlier this week, the Audio Publishers Association presented its annual awards for excellence in audiobook publishing. The Audie Awards, or Audies, are typically given out in conjunction with BEA, in… Read more »

• The future of storytelling?

  Over on FutureBook last Friday there was a long article about book apps and the future of storytelling. It’s a mission statement-cum-press release on behalf of debut author Nathan Farrugia… 2 / Read more »

• This just in: Amazon does something reasonable

  “In a surprising about-face,” Amazon has decided to allow publishers and authors to determine whether Kindle 2 users can use the “text-to-speech” function to hear an audio version of an… 2 / Read more »

• Adios Moon!

  Tired of reading to your kids? Can’t take another bedtime session with Goodnight, Moon? You know it’s good for the little tykes, helps them get in to Harvard and all,… Read more »

• Listening to Kindle

  Charges by the Authors’ Guild that the new Kindle’s audio capability were infringing on audio copyrights (as per this earlier MobyLives report) have become the subject of lots of discussion… 4 / Read more »

• Trove of Larkin readings found

  After sitting in a garage for nearly thirty years, a newly discovered trove of recorded readings by Philip Larkin are about to be released to the public by Faber &… Read more »

• iPod, uPod, we're all gonna Pod . . .

  “That folks can pick up a gadget approximately the size of a cigarette lighter at their local library, programmed with a current bestseller for their listening pleasure, is the realization… Read more »

• Their demands still unclear, NYPL begins executing publishers . . .

  The New York Public Library has announced that “it is making 700 books — from classics to current best sellers — available to members in digital audio form for downloading… Read more »