2007-07-08T23:51:00.000-07:00

Hear Now Audio Books offers you one of the largest selections of downloadable audio books and spoken word material anywhere on the Internet - and it's growing daily!

Audio Book Mp3 Players

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We often get asked about Storage on Mp3 players and iPods etc regarding audiobooks

A friend has an iPod Nano (4GB) and LOVES IT! Currently they have @ 15 books on it that average 9 CDs each and it takes up 2.5 GB. I personally use the Sony NW Mp3 player really cool looking but the software SonicStage is very awkward to use. However I got mine for $175 and it has 20GB storage, much better value than any iPod ;-)

So look around before you purchase but anything above 1Gb should be ok to get started. After all you can only listen to one book at a time ;-)

Paul

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audio books: The E-Myth Revisited continues..

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This book continues to inspire me and seems to hit all the correct buttons ;-) I am now half way through the book and already have plans for my businesses ref the importance of setting them up the correct way. Simply inspiring and a must read for any business owner especially if you are just starting out. Get things right from the start and avoid all the heartache later on!!

I actually am delaying getting out of my car on journeys while I listen to this book how sad!!

See The E-Myth Revisited

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Audiobooks are the next step forward in Learning!

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Audiobooks are the next step... you can walk or drive to work, school or college, you can walk, run, skip in the gym, read in between or even while skiing or boarding in your favourite resort. Stop for a moment and be creative, think of all the possible places you could enjoy an e-book and meanwhile ... the E myth revisited continues to entertain me. I love the section where the author goes accidently to a So Called Perfect Hotel which has a massive influence on the rest of his life and proves the e myth is alive and well in the real world. Systems rule and you can create a business you work on and not in for long term success and happieness inspirational thinking and even better you run your business as a game, a serious game but a game!!.

So grab an E-book of your choosing from Hear Now Audio Books and let me know what you think ;-) by e-mailing me click here Why buy CDs if You can download audiobooks from the web to your mp3 player?

Paul

Audiobooks

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Audiobooks- Listening to Literature Online Listening to a book in your car stereo or home has been around for some time. Podcasting not as long. The combination of the 2 ideas brings about an interesting synergy.

Audiobooks rocks gives new enthusiasm for your dead time (gardening, time at the gym, Ironing ) and even makes taking a journey in the car and the commute to work wonderful ;-)

All I can say is try it and see, even download the FREE AUDIOBOOKS on our site and you will see what you are missing!!

http://www.hear-now-audio-books.com

Paul

E-myth Revisited Audiobook review continues

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Just a follow up to yesterdays post I am now onto the 3rd CD and this is all brilliant stuff ;-) How do you balance the Entrepreneur, Manager and Technician in us all. Not exactly sure but I am learning and what it really means to actually work on your business and not in your business. Even more important do you want to do this!! I will try to provide some answers tomorrow.

Paul

Read a great Audio Book The E Myth Revisited

E Myth Revisited audiobook

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Just a quick word as it is really late and I should be in bed ;-) As I have said before, the sign of a great audiobook is you do not want to get out of the car after a journey till your book finished. Well if you are interested in business and self help read the E myth revisited by M Gerber this book is truly inspirational. I suggest you go get a copy and go for a very long drive and see if you are the same person after the spoken word presentation as before!!

The Author also narrates and his passion for the subject shows, great listen

The E Myth Revisited

Please comment if you read the book and let me know what you think

Paul

Audiobooks all day long

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The best thing about my job is that I work for myself and can make my own rules. One of my rules is that I can listen to audiobooks all day long. So I've been collecting audiobooks for several years but the best business title I have read lately is The E-Myth Revisited by M Gerber

This is a must read E-book for any business onwer and is very well narrated. The sign of any good audiobook is that you do not want to get out of your car at the end of a journey

Paul

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Paul

The Future is Audiobooks

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I heard a great CD in the car the other day, regarding the future of audiobooks. It would appear that although the market wil lag behind normal book for some time the possible market is limitless. I also was speaking to a friend of mine whom obtained a ipod for Xmas it has no music on but has spoken audio books on only. In fact he has 4 books he downloaded from the Hear Now Audio Book website and he has only taken up @ 6% of his disk-space used up. He would need a rucksack to carry the books otherwise ;-)

My book of the day is a topic dear to my heart Example: Climb

"Listen & Live's Adrenaline Series is one of the best in the genre". - The Denver Post

Year after year, climbers return to the world's most difficult mountains. At these places, even the most cautious climber is vulnerable to mistakes, bad weather and bad luck, which often leads to death. This collection offers harrowing accounts of extreme mountaineering and its potentially fatal consequences.

Regards Paul

Audiobooks and new ipod: No music

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How much I now look forward to the drive into work and all because I got a new ipod for christmas and I have downloaded my favourite audiobooks from Hear Now Audio Books and at present not a single song has gone on it. How sad is that ;-) But the pure pleasure of listening to books I want to read in my so called dead time is brilliant,

Paul

One of my recommendations is this wonderful detective novel Book of the Dead, The in fact I was even late into work the other day as I could not stop till I got to the end of the chapter.

New world of audiobooks

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I have been getting more into the idea of fiction audiobooks lately. I’d listened to a couple before, on long car trips at night, but wasn’t really “hooked” or anything. Recently, though, I found the Achemist

Paulo Coelho
This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure... $16.95

. Well, I couldn’t let that go without a try. I listened to it and then purchased 3 more– mainly in the evenings while lying down with my cat and at the gym when doing the light exercises.

It’s really convenient and entertaining, and I’m loving it! I’m not sure to what I’ll listen next, now that I’ve finished these ones but you need a good narrator and a well crafted story.

You know, it’s a new concept for me, this integrated realm of books and radio and television, where they exist beside each other without one being “the cheap version” of the other. For example in radio plays, books, movies, and the TV series, and they’re all accepted, apparently. Who knew? This wasn’t part of my upbringing; I’m only discovering the tip of the iceberg now, and it’s baffling but wonderful. The good part about being late to the fiction party is that there’s plenty to catch up on! I have been reading factual, learning audiobooks for some time.

Go to http://www.hear-now-audio-books.com to see many more ;-)

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2007-Jan-10

iPod creates specialist markets for audiobooks; racy titles flourish.

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I thought this article from the New York times was so interesting that I have published an abridiged version here, interesting times we all alive in.

NEW YORK - On a recent afternoon Laura Wilson was speaking through a microphone to Oliver Wyman, on the other side of a pane of glass. "Just hit 'Samaritan' a little harder," she said.

The two were in a recording studio near Times Square, producing the audio version of The Intellectual Devotional, a book of daily readings by David Kidder and Noah Oppenheim. Wilson, a producer with the Audio Renaissance publishing company, wanted Wyman, the reader, to give the word more stress in a sentence that began, "Ethnic Samaritans, now living in northern Israel."

That same afternoon, in a studio a few blocks away Julie Fain Lawrence, was recording Simply Sexy, a Harlequin title by Carly Phillips.

Kidder and Oppenheim's philosophical musings might appear to have little in common with Phillips' bodice-ripper. But the audiobooks share one trait: They are both being released exclusively in a downloadable format.

When finished next month they will be available only to mouse clickers on Audible.com, one of several Internet sites featuring digital audio versions of books, periodicals and spoken-word content.

Unlike onscreen e-books, downloadable audiobooks have taken off, driven by the explosive popularity of the iPod.

Because of lower production costs, titles that a few years ago would not have had audio versions at all are now being recorded; the decision is based largely on projected hardcover sales. And if they prove popular enough as downloads, some of those productions eventually will be made into three-dimensional audiobooks.

The audio versions of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential and the New Yorker writer Susan Orlean's Orchid Thief were both first available only to downloaders. Only after both hardcovers performed well - Orlean's book was made into a movie (Adaptation), and Bourdain's inspired A Cook's Tour, his celebrity chef show on the Food Network - were both books rolled onto CDs.

In 2002, when Three Junes by Julia Glass was published, "we hadn't originally bought audio rights and we didn't plan to," said Madeline McIntosh, publisher of Random House Audio Group. "Then in the 11th hour, word came through that the book had been selected for the Today show book club and was going to get a lot of visibility."

The publisher scrambled to record the book and put it on Audible. It sold on the site exclusively until a year later, when Random House released a physical version of the audiobook concurrent with the paperback.

With virtually no promotional budgets, audiobook publishers rely on riding the coattails of the print version's publicity, marketing and advertising. So while the success of a download-only title on hear-now-audio-books.com is a factor in determining whether to release a CD, publishers still link that decision more closely to hardcover sales.

Two Penthouse magazine books, Between the Sheets: A Collection of Erotic Bedtime Stories and 26 Nights: A Sexual Adventure, were released in download-only audio versions in 2002. But like the books' temptresses, they have had long legs. Sales remained so brisk that in 2006 Between the Sheets was the bestselling download-only title . Four years after they were first recorded, Random House Audio released both titles on CD.

With seven of the top 10 download-only sellers on some audiobook sites in the erotica genre, the company has been a trailblazer in the category.

"We can tell our children that we helped to spawn the audio erotica industry," Beth Anderson, the publisher of Audible, said with a laugh. "We started it not necessarily because we wanted to be in the erotica business, but because it seemed like a niche that wasn't being filled."

When Audible started nine years ago, "porn" and "sex" were popular Web search terms, even more so than now. So as an Internet company, Audible chose to offer racy titles. It now has hundreds of briskly selling erotica offerings, most available only as downloads, and increasingly geared toward women, including the "Herotica" series edited by the sex guru Susie Bright.

"One of the things that makes erotica sell better for us than other places is that when you're on the subway listening to your iPod, no one knows whether you're listening to The Wall Street Journal or a Penthouse book," Anderson said.

An added advantage: With a book on an iPod, there is nothing to hide under the mattress.

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2007-Jan-8

Audio books see increasing downloads

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The Audio Publishers Association reports book downloads have grown sharply of late:

• 9 percent of audio book sales in 2005 were downloads, this is expected t rise dramatically in 2006

• 50 percent: the increase in downloads in 2005 from 2004

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2006-Dec-30

Hear Now Audio Books and Procrasttation

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Dear all just brief post to let you know we are all still standing for another year. I have some news on the audio book store, in 2007 which will be very helpul and, we have revitalised the back end stuff focus and some great new titles are being released but I am sworn 2 secracy till early January ;-)

Paul

Have a very happy 2007

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Audio Book Mp3 Players

audio books: The E-Myth Revisited continues..

Audiobooks are the next step forward in Learning!

Audiobooks

E-myth Revisited Audiobook review continues

E Myth Revisited audiobook

Audiobooks all day long

Become a Hear Now Audio Book Affiliate for FREE.

The Future is Audiobooks

Audiobooks and new ipod: No music

New world of audiobooks

iPod creates specialist markets for audiobooks; racy titles flourish.

Audio books see increasing downloads

Hear Now Audio Books and Procrasttation

Hear Now Audio Books Live Blog

3 Major Benefits