Audio recording

On this week's episode of Working, June Thomas spoke with actor and award-winning audiobook narrator Abby Craden about her voice work. They discussed the technical aspects that go into recording an audiobook, her creative license in making narration decisions, and the differences between working on fiction and nonfiction projects.  Read more

In 2007, as Apple's iTunes was cementing its dominance over digital music distribution, Amazon tried something bold. It launched the Amazon MP3 store, where all the music was DRM-free. It even used the slogan: "DRM: Don't Restrict Me."  Read more

Have you ever dropped a thermometer and watched its ball of mercury break into a scatter of glistening droplets? That's my mind right now. The table next to my bed is anchoring a tottering tower of books I have begun and then abandoned, not out of displeasure but because...  Read more

The audio technology company Voxnest owns the podcasting platform Spreaker. The Italy-based StreetLib is a digital book distributor. Last week, they teamed up for a symbiotic relationship that will let StreetLib's book publishers create podcasts and Spreaker's podcasters create and distribute digital books or audiobooks.  Read more

I moved to Nashville, Tenn., in the summer of 1999 to go to college, in the height of the file-sharing "crisis." I put the word "crisis" in quotes because while the music industry was quick to judge on what was, and was not, ethical consumption of music, we learned a few things from the episode: