The Open Book Audio Podcast

News

• Library Journal has done a feature article about the growing popularity of audiobooks with some surprising statistics. http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/04/media/audio/multi-taskers-dream-as-new-formats-emerge-audiobooks-seem-poised-to-expand-their-reach-but-challenges-persist/
• Prenuer Marketing has released Audiobook Stitch. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/03/21/prweb9299578.DTL
• Overdrive and Softlink have partnered to provide audiobooks to Australia. http://prwire.com.au/pr/28099/softlink-extends-overdrive-ebook-distribution-to-corporate-and-academic-libraries

Sponsor

• The Stolen Droids Podcast - http://www.stolendroids.com

Audiobook Club Selection for March & April

Audible Link: http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B0071D0SOM

You can join us for our discussion of A Pleasure to Burn by Ray Bradbury here.

We've Been Reading

• Elantris by Brandon Sanderson, Narrated by Jack Garrett.  (Audible Link)
• The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, Narrated by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading (Audible Link)
• The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan, Narrated by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading (Audible Link)
• The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, Narrated by Gerard Doyle (Audible Link)
• Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor, Narrated by Gerard Doyle (Audible Link)

News

• Penguin Audio is joining Brilliance Audio in including new titles in Overdrive's Library service. http://paidcontent.org/article/419-no-more-new-penguin-digital-audiobooks-for-libraries-either/
• AudioGo will be joining with the audio sharing site AudioBoo to include audio recordings as part of the service. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/19/audioboo-audiogo
• Daniel Kraus' Rotters, read by Kirby Heyborne, is the winner of the 2012 Odyssey Award.  http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/893408-312/listening_library_nabs_2012_odyssey.html.csp
• Simply Audiobooks has released a new audiobook streaming service called audiobooks.com
• Digital sales of books are continuing to climb significantly: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/50457-children-s-university-press-audiobooks-rise-in-aap-monthly-sales-report.html

Audiobook Club Selection

What We've Been Reading

Audiobook Sample

Our audiobook sample for this show is Care and Feeding of Dragons: Confession of a Diabetic by Ahnalira Koan.  

“When I died,” Ahnalira Koan begins…a head-on automobile accident and a near-death experience that resulted in the onset of type 1 diabetes, her life took a turn she didn’t expect.  Amid the struggles to assimilate her health changes, she found herself on a journey of awakening.  Transforming her personal tragedy into opportunity, Ahnalira learned how to embrace her fear of the “dragon within” and make it into, not only a friend, but a teacher as well. All of us are evolving, and the more consciousness we can bring to the process, the more we can expand, explains Koan in her groundbreaking new book. Filled with techniques and tips to help readers navigate any challenges that come their way, Care and Feeding of Dragons shows that all the answers needed are within reach. Using her background in Jungian psychology, Law of Attraction, and personal experience, Koan guides readers on a playful and engaging journey to becoming the best version of themselves possible. Ask for what you want. Learn to align all the parts of yourself - including the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual - and you can live a fulfilling life.

 

Beautifully written and filled with wit and warmth, Care and Feeding of Dragons shows you the deeper meaning behind the Law of Attraction. Deal with personality patterns that are not serving you. Figure out the patterns that are calling to “be made right”—and learn to listen to and tend your dragons instead of fighting them.

 

Whether you’re diabetic or you’re dealing with relationship or financial problems… or you are on a spiritual quest to awaken Consciousness, Care and Feeding of Dragons can jumpstart a new way of thinking to awaken greater possibilities.  Life will always guide us to be the best we can be if we are willing to embrace the journey. Beautifully written and playfully presented, Care and Feeding of Dragons offers a guide to empowering yourself and realizing your full potential.

 

The audio version of the book includes two sample meditations which utilize the author's techniques.
 

This book is currently available from Audible, iTunes, Amblingbooks.com, and LearnOutLoud.com.  Find more links here: http://openbookaudio.com/audiobook/care-and-feeding-dragons

Andrew got a new microphone for the podcast, and is still learning how to work it.  So, apologies for the prounounced poximity effect of this month's podcast.  It'll get better in January!

NEWS

• Tales2Go has a new holiday audiobook app with over 30 hours of holiday titles
• Spoken Herd is trying to use social media to cast a new social audiobook experiment featuring Scottish literature.
• Digital Downloads have surpassed physical media for the first time.
• The 2010 Grammy Award Nominees have been announced.
• Martin Sheen is voicing the Dalai Lama's newest book, and Audible is giving it away for free until Dec 20th.

AUDIOBOOK CLUB

WHAT WE'VE BEEN READING

SAMPLE

Apologies for the repost of podcast #41.  In the process of moving over to the new website platform, the most recent podcast and its associated show notes disappeared.  SO, here's the podcast again (without the shownotes) and we'll be back to normal with show #42.