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Online book retailer Amazon.com said this week that it was purchasing Audible, Inc., the premiere company providing digital downloads of books. No more tapes, just download and listen. Read more about the arrangement from in Publishers Weekly, the industry’s main source of information that wrote about the story this week.

Fox Business also announced the news and quoted Amazon.com’s Steve Kessel, senior vice president for worldwide digital media saying: “Working together, we can introduce more innovations and bring this format to an even wider audience.”

Wonder what this means for readers and audible fans?

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 at 7:00 am by Barbara Nackman.
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Staff writer Barbara Livingston Nackman admits she doesn't like to stroll past a library or bookstore without stopping inside. And, when visiting someone's home she rarely walks by a bookshelf without glancing at the titles. She shares her passion for fiction, non-fiction, poetry and short stories by bringing books discussions online and exploring the local literati scene.


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Barbara NackmanA municipal reporter for The Journal News since 1997, Barbara Livingston Nackman has covered local governments, events and breaking news from many communities. She began her journalism career by writing for bookselling and library publications. As a suburban mother, she made sure her two sons, now 23 and 21, had bookshelves and reading chairs in their rooms and library cards way before they had driver's licenses. Her editors have now found an outlet for all those book-related stories she pitches and her husband hopes she gains an interest in reading historical non-fiction.

Well, maybe if it's about Benjamin Franklin and the Free Library of Philadelphia. READ MORE

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