2007-Oct-25 - Not Your Typical Books

Audio books have been building up reputation for the past decades. However, in the past audio books are only obtainable in physical medium such as tapes and compact discs. These types of audio books usually cost higher than normal books themselves. The new breed of audio books, downloadable audio book, generally much cheaper than their physical audio books counterpart.

Downloadable audio books used to be cumbersome, due to low speed connection of dial-up internet service. Now the available of hi-speed internet connection has made it achievable for audio books to be downloaded rapidly from the internet.

Most audio books are very huge files; they require hi-speed internet connection for their files to be downloading correctly and quick. Since audio books are now in digital downloadable format, you can get audio books from online audio book stores cheaper than physical audio books.

Don't let the word cheap audio books turn you down. These downloadable audio books are high quality audio books. They are named "cheap audio books" only because they are cheaper than normal audio books. The traditional audio books are usually price higher because of they cost more to produce. Since these "cheap audio books" are in digital format, publishers normally lower prices on these downloadable audiobooks.

The remarkable characteristic about this downloadable audio books is "convenience". Normally, you can listen to sample of audio books before you purchase them. That is a must for any decent audio books store.

Another upper hand is that you can download them straight to your computer and listen on your computer. If you have audiobooks on your computer, then you know that you can transfer your audio books to your mp3 players such as Zune, iPod, or others and listen while you commute.

The not so good about downloadable audiobooks would be the bothersomeness. What am I talking about? Since these download audiobooks are in the digital format, you have to write them to cds if you want to listen on your stereo system, in your car or in your house.

However, if you can hook up your mp3 player to your audio system this little inconvenience will not be an issue.