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Audio Books For Children
Tired of looking for the solutions for stopping the Are we there yet? questions? Looking for an educative modern method that will make your children pleased? The solution might be audio books. Find out in the following article, the benefits and...
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Internet: a Whole New World (Wide Web) Including Video and Audio
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The Ten Commandments of Using Streaming Audio on Your Website
The Ten Commandments of Using Streaming Audio On Your Website
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What Your Car Audio Can Teach You About Marketing.
Stand next to any road, and every so often a young person will go by with the latest rap CD blaring. If it happens to be a cold day, he (it is always a he) may have the windows up. Then, all you will hear is the thud of the overworked bass speaker...
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Audio and E-book Opportunties
I joined a Christian Writers' Group a few weeks ago, and the email exchanges of those members is quite exhilarating. Browsing and skimming them last night I came to one where a writer who has vision trouble and can't read regular print books challenged the others to produce more e-books.
E-books are read on the computer, and the greatest thing about them, as I've discovered myself, is that one can enlarge the text so it is easier to read. For those who find even that too difficult, it is possible to get software in your computer which will read the text to you. I'm not sure how digital it sounds, but I believe in many places that software is free to any who are legally defined as blind.
What shocked me about the exchange was that a number of writers had admitted a bias against e-books when this other member first asked who all offered their books in this form. The mindset still seems to be, a book is not really published until it comes out in paperback or hardcover.
I confess I've learned too, that fiction doesn't sell as an ebook yet, though all kinds of marketing manuals and self-help books do.
Fortunately, when this writer explained herself, the others rallied around with offers to help out. One said she'd gladly offer her books to be read on tape if anyone could be found to do it. Another urged that we all consider producing our books in digital at the same time as in print.
Thinking about all this today, I suddenly see wide open doors of opportunity for ministry and perhaps a business.
Here in Canada, I believe the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) is on the lookout for volunteers to read books on tape. They have a lending library by mail. The US has similar organizations.
All you would need is a good clear voice for reading without stammering or hesitation, and with a lively, instead of monotone voice. It wouldn't
matter if you sat in a wheelchair, or had no use of arms and legs.
The same reading could be put on tape or CD. Besides the audio, the CD might have a graphics or flash movie version as well.
If you know, or could learn some web design skills, you could volunteer or make small paying arrangements with various authors to turn their books into e-books. If they have a website they might be happy to pay you a small commission on each downloadable copy sold alongside of their print book.
If they don't have a website - guess what - you have the skill, so offer to build that author a simple one or two page website to sell her books. All it needs to be is a terrific sales letter with ordering links at the bottom. You'd think the writer could write up that effective sales letter, right? You'd just copy and paste it into the web page.
Should it happen that you have more advanced skills, or they grow on you, why not set up a library, or bookstore of ebooks? Market it specifically to those who need the benefit of being able to read a book on their computer.
Hey-hey, before too long even those with 20-20 vision will come snooping around, praising the advantages of digital books. You'll be a trend-setter.
The whole publishing world is like it's just had an earthquake, and the after-shocks haven't all hit yet. The dust hasn't settled on all the changes coming. Be a Mover and a Shaker.
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Yahoo! Search - Audio Search |
Submit your audio content - including podcasts - to Audio Search with Media RSS ... Find audio files from across the Web including music, podcasts, ... |
audio.search.yahoo.com |
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AltaVista - Audio Search |
Search for MP3s, WAVs and streaming audio files on the web and on FTP sites. |
www.altavista.com |
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Rhapsody & RealPlayer the best audio and video players Real.com |
The standard for audio and video streaming online. |
www.real.com |
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SuperPass premium audio and video programming Real.com |
RealNetworks cross-platform multimedia player. Supports RTSP/RTP with H.261, u-Law, a-law, MP3, DVI. [Client] |
www.real.com |
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The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio |
List of major online audio resources; part of the WWW Virtual Library, maintained by Prof. Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University, UK. |
archive.museophile.org |
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More audio reports | Audio archive | Guardian Unlimited |
Special report: Europe's far right. More audio reports ... Audio, 'It will achieve a great deal of injustice' February 17, video: The Conservative candidate ... |
www.guardian.co.uk |
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Internet Archive: Audio Archive |
Non-English language collections contributed to the Open Source Audio collection ... You are invited to view or upload audios to the Open Source collection! ... |
www.archive.org |
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M-AUDIO |
Manufacturers of MIDI and audio devices for the PC or Mac. Product catalog, company information, news and support center. |
www.m-audio.com |
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Audio - Salon |
Free spoken word recordings from hundreds of authors. Includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and live author events. |
www.salon.com |
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Audio Engineering Society |
The leading professional association worldwide for professionals involved in the audio industry. Extensive and well maintained site, including online member ... |
www.aes.org |
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Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
HyperPhysics: Sound and Hearing · Audio for the 21st Century · Conversion of sound units and levels · Sounds amazing a learning resource for sound and waves ... |
en.wikipedia.org |
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Audio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Windows Media Audio, Microsoft's proprietary digital audio format. ... "I hear" in Latin. Audio, magazine covering high fidelity music reproduction. ... |
en.wikipedia.org |
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AudioREVIEW.com - Home Audio and Home Theater resource |
Consumer reviews on home audio and home theater equipment. |
www.audioreview.com |
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CBC.ca - Listen to CBC Radio |
Audio Plug-ins & Assistance. Windows Media Player, Windows Media Player 9. Frequently Asked Questions, Frequently Asked Questions. Ogg Vorbis Format ... |
www.cbc.ca |
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CBC.ca - Listen to CBC Radio |
From 7:00 p.m. AT Friday, December 1st to 7:00 p.m. AT Saturday, December 2nd, the Fredericton audio stream will be unavailable due to a power shutdown in ... |
www.cbc.ca |
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Audio - Creative Commons |
Features a pool of Creative Commons licensed audio. You may submit your MP3s · OYEZ Years of Supreme Court proceedings available as licensed MP3, ... |
creativecommons.org |
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Audio Adrenaline |
Audio Adrenaline is an award winning Christian Rock Band that writes, records, sings and performs songs like Big House with Gospel driven messages to ... |
www.audioa.com |
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Audio Bible Online |
Audio Bible, The King James Version narrated by Alexander Scourby is on-line. |
www.audio-bible.com |
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Audio - ebaumsworld.com |
hilarious audio sound files file mp3 mp3s audios. ... Shocking audio of a man getting shot. Tags: ghetto · Blondestar Blondestar ... |
www.ebaumsworld.com |
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AudioFind.com - multimedia internet search |
Searchable MP3 directory with thousands of files. Browse alphabetically by filename, master artist, or date. |
www.audiofind.com |
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