The Untold Story of the Talking Book

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2016
Author
Author: Matthew Rubery
Language
English
Number of Pages
369 pp.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
City
Cambridge, MA
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Region
United States
Demographics
People with Disabilities
Chronological Period
1850-1899
1900-1949
1950-1999
ISBN
9780674545441
Annotation

History of audiobooks since the invention of the phonograph in 1877. 

Contents: 

  • 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