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Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar bank account is nearly 150 many years of music recordings. Recounting the fascinating background of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of invention from Edison's recitation of "Mary Possessed a Little Lamb" for his tinfoil phonograph in 1877 to the first novel-length speaking books designed for blinded World War I veterans to today's billion-dollar audiobook industry. The Untold Story of the Communicating Book targets the social impact of audiobooks, not only the technological background, in telling a tale of surprising and impassioned issues: from controversies over which literature the Library of Congress determined to become speaking literature - yes to Kipling, no to Flaubert - to debates in what defines a reader. Delving into the vexed relationship between spoken and branded texts, Rubery argues that storytelling can be just as participating with the ears much like the eyes which audiobooks are worthy of to be taken seriously. They are not mere derivatives of branded literature but their own form of entertainment. We've come a long way from the era of sound recorded on polish cylinders, when people dreamed 1 day hearing entire novels on little phonographs tucked inside their hats. Rubery tells the untold tale of this amazing evolution and, in doing this, breaks from convention by dealing with audiobooks as a distinctively modern talent that has profoundly affected just how we read.

Category: 20th Century