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A quick history of the audio book

In 1920 the Royal National Institute for the Blind in England was allready doing research on how to develop audiobooks for the blind. At that time there have been a lot of ex World War 1 soldiers who'd gone blind consequently of the fighting. In 1926 the RNIB started to use LPs to record audio books which could be performed on record players (the kind with the large horn, you'd to move a handel several times befor it would play).

In 1936 the Talking Book Service was launched.The first two books were:The murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie and Joseph Conrads Thyphoon. The records used during the time could keep 25 minutes of spoken tekst, so that they required about 10 records for a typical audio book.

In 1940 the studio employed by the RNIB was bombed, and 30 days later a replacement studio was bombed as wel.The RNIB wanted to begin publishing mp3 audiobooks again, nevertheless they needed certain materials which had been destroyed.

In America, the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), had started creating audiobooks as wel, and they did send the essential parts to simply help their English counterparts. Unfortunatly the cargo got lost during a bombing raid of the London harbor! An additional delivery however did allow it to be, and the RNIB surely could start again with the production of audiobooks.

In the sixties the audiobooks began to look on casettes, and later, after the infention of the compact disk player, on CDs.

In these times the audio books have become more are popular then actually befor, notwithstanding their age. Among the main reasons due to their ever growing popularity is the proven fact that audiobooks could be saved directly from the web. There are a good few audio book writers who offer this service, and it looks like their to a success.

Audiobooks, more then 70 years of age and still gowing strong. popular fiction books