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April 29, 2005

Atlas Blogged

I've been putting some special effort into these two new author entries. I remember when I was a senior in high school and I decided to dive into my mother's battered copy of "Atlas Shrugged". I was an ambitious reader from an early age, and this book was one of those classic tomes that everyone reccomends but hardly anyone has actually read. I'm not sure the philosophy would have worked very well for my mother, but for some reason she had it and I remember getting through most of it. Anyway, that brings me to the Ayn Rand page I recently put up. I know there are many Rand fans out there so I hope my Biographical Sketch has done her justice. If I had included everything I could have written a block of text that was the size of Atlas, and "The Fountainhead" combined. I'm dead serious.

Btw, if you are interested in more about Ayn Rand's life, I found this link while I was snooping around the net for information on her. It's actually pretty interesting to see those pictures of her in New York.

The other page created was a little lighter for those that may not be interested in lofty terms like Objectivism. Don't get me wrong, Al Franken is just as interesting as Rand. It's just on a different level. Hey, I'm sure he'd admit as much too! I reccomend you listen to all of Al's Audio books. He reads them all and I've never laughed more listening to an Audio Book.

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April 26, 2005

Rent Me

Sometimes buying an audio book is just too pricey. I mean it's about 10 bucks more than a CD and you might not even like the book after you've spent alot of time on it. Well, now there's a few options for those that don't like to buy audio books. Netflix showed the renting over the internet can be big business and now tons of audio book rental outfits are showing up like crazy. In the future me and david will be recording a podcast that will try to navigate a path through the murky world of online audio book rental services, but for now I want to give you some links to pages I created as guides to a few of them:

Jiggerbug

Come Hear Books

BooksFree.com

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A Challenger Arises to Fight Audible

Just did want to notify you all who's going to be Audible's main competition in the digital downloading of audio books sector. Media Bay is joining forces with MSN Music to create the largest downloadable audio book fleet this side of Audible's union with Apple iTunes.

Media Bay powers their Audio Book Club which is sort of like the clubs you get through Columbia House or BMG Music if you ever got suckered into those.

Audio Book Club offers to it's members 4 audiobooks for 99 cents (plus shipping and handling) as long as you purchase 2 audiobooks at regular Club prices ($11.95-$30) within the next year. But then the hook is during the year you receive 12 Audio Book Club catalogs which contain hundreds of titles including their featured selection which is automatically shipped to you unless you specify that you don't want it on your mailed decision card or via their website within 10 days. It's probably not the hottest business model for the dot-com days. And good news for Old Time Radio fans that have upgraded to iPods. Media Bay also owns Radio Spirits and Radio Classics which I'm sure will make those a lot of old time radio programs available for digital download. And I'm guessing all Media Bay's audio books on the club will now be availabe for digital download.

But it ain't up on MSN Music yet as I can't really find any of their audio books there. But MSN Music does have a pretty nice Spoken Word Section which has a ton of audio programs available for digital download. I'll do a blog on this section at a later date, but it's got Smithsonian Folkways recordings, Maximum audio biographies of hot music pop stars, William S. Burroughs reading his poetry, a bunch of great comedy albums, and I'm sure a lot more if I browse enough.

So back to the main event. Media Bay & MSN Music go head to head with Audible & Apple iTunes at the 2005 Audio Publishers Association Conference in New York City on June 2nd for the Digital Audio Panel from 11:00a.m.–12:15 p.m. It's going to be a Royal Rumble.

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April 23, 2005

Language Podcast Appendix

We've just concluded a truly electric podcast on the subject of language learning websites. I think we had a good time and learned alot too. Now that me and Dave are on our way to becoming true polyglots, we've decided you should have the opportunity too. If you listened to the podcast and are interested in visiting some of the sites we mentioned, I thought it might be good to list them all for your web browsing pleasure:

Berlitz

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April 21, 2005

Conversations with Neale

Just finished a Neale Donald Walsch Page for you all to enjoy. This is the guy that wrote one of my mother's favorites "Conversations With God". Real inspiring story if there ever was one. Here is a guy that is as successful as anyone has a right to be and then comes crashing down hard. I mean hard: we're talking a car crash that breaks his neck, a fire that destroys all his posessions and a divorce from his fourth wife, all of which happens within a year. Then to top it off he has to be homeless for the better part of a year. Whoa. So what does he do? He writes a note to none other than God, sends it off and gets a reply. Or so he says. I should probably listen to what he has to say before I make a conclusion on his work. Regardless, he's pulled himself out of that incredible hole and is now quite rich. Not that you'd catch him saying it mattered. Interesting stuff...

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April 20, 2005

Publisher Pages

I've been working on some publisher pages recently and I felt compelled tonight to write my own meager thoughts on a few of the companies I've helped profile.

First I'll talk about Airplay. These guys may not have much and yes, there is some trash fiction in the mix, but when they're good, they're really good. The Jamaica Kincaid books, Poetry selection and Shakespeare titles are all top notch and genuinely unique. There were only 19 titles currently listed on their page, but over half were of high quality and a proceed of the sales go to charity. Pretty cool way of working guys. I give you a thumbs up.

Brilliance Audio has such potential but their catalogue is wasted on total trash fiction that doesn't even belong in an airport bargain bin. The titles listed on our profile page for them are literally the best you can find and it makes me sad. They have a great design sense and the good titles are worthwhile enough. Oh well.

Oh but wait, there's the best of the best of the publishers I've recently encountered. The winner of my personal best publisher of the week is Audio Scholar. I couldn't believe the titles I was going through with them. Everything had something of value, from Gandhi's biography to Carl Sagan's essays; it was all too much to handle! I wanted to listen to every one. If you want to get an idea of their topic range, I think it skews more on the end of science-based books, but there are a few titles devoted to people with more spiritual leanings. I think science is a good niche to take on since there are ALOT of spiritual audio book vendors out there but not many for more... left brain listeners out there.

Check out the links, there's alot of things in there that I'm sure you've never seen on audio before. At least it was new to me!

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April 19, 2005

PayPerListen.com

So I was looking at what seems to be Audible's main competition today. They are PayPerListen.com, the electronic download sector of Audiobooks.com. They've about 500 audio books available for download on MP3 from Blackstone Audiobooks, In Audio, Tantor Audio, SoundWorks, Wiley Audio, Full Cast Audio, Hollywood Theater of the Ear, and Penton Overseas. With the exception of SoundWorks (which publishes a lot of famous speeches) all these publishers are already on Audible although PayPerListen seems to have a few more titles from each of them and they may have different ones. PayPerListen's main advantage over Audible for us consumers is that if you aren't an Audible member and you're just buying digital audio books a la carte, PayPerListen seems to sell their downloads about $5-$10 cheaper than Audible. But check because it varies and a few times PayPerListen was more expensive when I browsed.

Downloading seems easy enough even though you have to wait for a confirmation e-mail before you can download it. They have to clear your payment first and then they send you a link with a user name and password and you then have access to you audio book which comes in 1 hour MP3 segments you download. So unlike Audible you don't have to download any software to download the audio books. Like Audible once you've purchased the audio books they are always in "Your Library" so you can go back and download them again or you can download them in segments at a time.

PayPerListen.com's downloads are encoded MP3s as opposed to Audible's AA audio. Audible's audio put the audio book right in the Audiobook section of your iPod if you have one so that you can bookmark it there. PayPerListen's MP3s can be uploaded on to any MP3 portable player. They did mention though that because of a deal they made with publishers that you can't burn their encoded MP3s onto CD which is most likely bad for those who want to download their audio books and burn them to CD. You can come to your own conclusion on PayPerListen.com's browseability with its dozens of categories but they have a nice advanced search. So it's good Audible has a competitor. Tomorrow I'll tell you a little about the Spoken Network which is another up and comer in digital downloading. Until then LearnOutLoud.com!

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Stephen R. Covey Author Page is up.

Take a look at the Stephen R. Covey page I just put up. This guy is the grandfather of 43 separate human beings. While this is an already formidable accomplishment, Covey has fortunately managed to put out some inspiring audio books as well. Additionally, he's a regular on the self development seminar circuit and a prescence in Washington. All this AND he looks to be an amazing parent. His is worth checking out too: He doesn't just sell his books, but office supplies and journals as well.

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April 16, 2005

Resources & Content Are Up

We've got our Resources and our Content Up. You can check each section out at:

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Resources

-and-

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Content

And it is just the start of those sections. They will expand infinitely in the next months to further meet your audio & video learning needs.

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April 15, 2005

Radio Ruminations

I've been thinking alot about how radio is changing. I think with my antenna on the fritz in my car, I've decided it's a waste of time to even try to listen to it the old way and thus lately I've been listening to it on streaming audio via the web. I didn't realize I was a junkie until recently the other day I got angry that my real player wasn't working. This is just like getting a bad signal during a good program: you just want to hit the dashboard. At least I do because I'm a violent person. :) Anyway, with podcasts and streaming audio, the old transistor is probably going to die. Yes, I'll repeat it, DIE. But that's ok because it doesn't mean radio's relevance is dead. Quite the contrary, I hold it quite dear as a resource that not only informs me on the daily news, but gives me music reccomendations and gets me up to date on every topic I could ever need. Put succinctly: content is more important than the vehicle of said content. Bring on the digital man, it only makes for better choices.

FYI: if your interested in what I listen to daily I'll give you a brief rundown. I start my day around 9:30. By 10 AM I listen to the Al Franken Show on Air America. At around noon I feel like music usually so I go to Minnesota Public Radio's INCREDIBLE 89.3 The Current. After that I usually spend the afternoon listening to either my local KCRW station or if I'm bored with that I go to Wisconsin's Idea Network. Yes, I'm an NPR fan. Deal. Oh yeah and I don't forget Adam Curry's mainstay Podcast, The Daily Sourcecode.

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April 14, 2005

Dangerously Close to Extreme Resources

Danger Audio Learning Lovers. Our Resources section is about to EXPLODE onto the scene. We've entered in dozens of authors and publisher pages we're just wrapping up the navigation to them so you can get to them. I personally don't know of a resource quite like it and I have been on a quest for such a thing for the last year or so. In all fairness there are some sites doing similar things, but nothing quite like us I don't think. Anyway here's the LearnOutLoud.com "competition". But I prefer to call them allies in the quest to make us all LearnOutLoud! Here's what I've found:

AudioFile Magazine

-It's the Number One site for professional Audiobook Reviews on the Net. An online archive of over 16,000 reviews many of which are free but many of which you must be an AudioFile Plus suscriber to access and that costs $48/year which also gets you 6 issues of their printed AudioFile Magazine and their Audiobook Reference Guide which I've used extensively. I thought the Audiobook Reference Guide was going to be like a Videohound for audio books, but it turned out to be an 80 page booklet listing Audiobook Publishers & Distributors which was very useful for us to use but not necessarily useful to the average audio book listener. But maybe it is. I won't go into their site any further, but it pretty much rocks for audio book lovers and I'll let you look for yourself. Here's a pretty nice link to a publisher resources page they have:

http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/other_resources.cfm

Audiobook Café

Where Spoken Word is Spoken About. Heck Yeah. And I see they have a whole MP3 Audio Archive of Interviews with Authors, Reviews & Excerpts from Audio Books, and their Radio Show: Coffee & Conversation all which you can download for free. How have I not downloaded this stuff?! And then they have what appears to be 1000s of print articles, interviews, reviews, and so much more. And they've even got forums which I just posted in. What a great resource!

AudioBook News Service

-Tons of free reviews with links to the publishers that sell the items. Awesome.

And here's some other sites which you can make up your own mind about:

http://www.discoveraudiobooks.com
http://www.audiobook.ws
http://www.webaudiobooks.com
http://www.audiobooksguide.com
http://www.rentbooksontape.com
http://abcentral.conforums.com
http://www.terrypogue.com (lot of dead links here)

Ok. Check 'em out. And check our Resources section out too.

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April 12, 2005

New Author Pages Up!

It's been a busy weekend for me at the LOL HQ. I've been sweating and refining over a series of truly unique (and beautiful!) author pages. I've been reading alot of biographies and pouring over countless bibliography pages so you don't have to. What's the point of going to a retailer page and not getting a good idea of everything available by an author? We're trying to remedy that at LearnOutLoud.com. You'll find alot of different and varied authors such as one for the dapper fellow pictured to the right. This man is American Hero Tom Wolfe. Here he is pictured in one of his many awesome white suits (he must have a bright closet). I think he's doing some gardening or something similarly austere while thinking up his next society-skewering opus. Go for it Tom, yeah!

Anyway, I hope you get as much from these pages as I have in compiling them. I've actually sought out many of the authors that have interested me here so I can assure you that these pages have practical value. If only I had had more of these when I was in highschool. I would have been a genuis alot earlier. Here's the latest batch of authors; look around and tell me if I can add anything or am totally off base with my findings:

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Free Audio Books!

Everybody wants free audio books. No matter what place I'm finding the audio book lover I'm also finding the guy or gal who wants it all and wants it now and wants it real free. I like the reply of most audiobook lovers to these people. Dude go to the library. And I do go to the library and you should too. But the audio book selection at the library can suffer from time to time. And your iPod is sitting there without any fresh audio book downloads on it. So you want some audio books and you want to download them right now for free. Well then check some of this out:

FreeAudio.org
Project Gutenberg
Free Classic Audio Books
Audiobooks for Free

And I always remember to tell people on that last one to click the AK-47 at the top of the page. If you don't you're missing out big time.

So that's free folks. It's usually public domain which means the titles it offers were published before you were born. And there's some other free sites with 1000s of titles where a computer reads eBooks to you. Bad idea. But that Free Classic Audio Books listed above is a computer narrated audio book site with pretty decent narration. It's still cold and inhuman, but as the computer evolves it will eventually put to rest the need for a Frank Mueller. Capturing all the subtleties of human emotion and speech this neuro-scientific supercomputer will put to rest the days of narrators and then there will be a massive free flow of computer talking books on demand at the click of a button and we'll be so awash in a sea of aural information that our brains will explode. Until that day enjoy the few free downloads available.

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April 11, 2005

Scouring Forums

I've been scouring forums at iPod lounge and just wanted to share some points of interest on the nature of audio book listening:

"Do you exercise, mow the lawn (special ear buds necessary), run errands, clean out the garage, clean out closets, sit in the bright sunlight of a beach or pool where reading is difficult, etc? If you do even a few of these, you would be surprised how much time you can clock every month. As long as an activity is not mentally consuming or involves other people, why not capitalize on that time to listen to a book. Also, sounds like you might prefer sitting in a chair and listen to a book -- I do that myself when into an engrossing book."

"Actually, reading a book makes me very sleepy. When I sit down to read, I'll more often than not be able to read only a few pages, without much comprehension, before I feel like sleeping. On the other hand, while listening to a book, I can move around and do things like work out, laundry, dishes, drive, etc."

"I listen to audio books while, driving, exercising, doing yard work, housework, anything that does not require concentration to the other task."

"I find there is a thin line where you can focus on the audible book and perform another task simultaniously, and perform both well. There seem to be an inbetween brain state where I can drive, work, ect and listen to a book. If I am not in that place the book goes into the back ground or the task suffers. It's hard to explain, but there a place I can go to where I can multitask. I find as I get older the line gets thinner and thinner."

"I listen to audio books when I go to bed. I do a 15 minute sleep timer EVERY night. Sometimes I'll do 30 minutes. I usually fall asleep in about 5 minutes. But it's such a great way to get to sleep. Other than that, I try to pick some sort of house project to work on at night - sewing curtains, re-wiring a switch, painting a room, building shelves, etc - that is a perfect time for the books."

So there you go. Learn Out Loud.

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April 08, 2005

Kiyosaki and Some Audio Book Forums You Should Enliven

Heya, today I put up the Robert T. Kiyosaki page for all you guys and gals that are wondering how to handle your money. The Rich Dad series is quite, quite... QUITE extensive and could probably make anyone rich if they listened to it enough. Hope this page is of some help!

I'm also going to give you some links to some web forums me and David have been haunting this week. Some of them could use a little new blood and I think the good people visiting our site are just the kind of well, blood that needs to be put into these forums.

The first one I want to point your direction to is Audio Books Central. This site has quite a few members but the traffic ain't so hot. Nobody responds to me and I'm getting lonely. There's some good topics however and its a shame people are picking up the baton a little more over there.

The next one I've been looking at is the MSN message Board On Audio Books. This one has a real proffessional layout and it informs me of when I've got replies via my email address. Real handy. Me and David have been talking on this one alot.

Then there's a new monster: the ipod lounge forums. This one is so busy and so cool that you could probably spend a day posting on it. In fact, I think david just did today. Excessive, but fun. I reccomend this one the most, not only if you want to talk about audio books in the spoken word section, but also if you have any (and I mean ANY) concern with regards to your IPOD. Don't worry, I don't have an Ipod yet either and I'm still finding ways to be relevent on this forum. Go there right away!

Hope all is well friends. I'm going to go jog now and get the rest of the day's light before it gets too dark. Bye.

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Indie Audio Book Scene

I was just turned on today to what may be an underground independent audio book and spoken word scene. And it seems there should be. Who's going to stand up against Simon & Schuster Audio and Time Warner AudioBooks of our feudal corporate globe. Because let's face it. Even though hundreds of thousands of books are published each year, the stuff that makes it to audio book is usually the junky best sellers. As the audio publishing industry expands (and it is the fastest growing sector of the publishing industry) then hopefully some more obscure and more intelligent material will be recorded for our listening pleasure.

In the meantime though there is an independent spoken word scene. And with digital download this is a lot easier. Today I was suggested a few sites:

www.mperia.com
www.cdbaby.com

And these are independent music resources with spoken word sections from indie authors and narrators who charge nominal fees for their stuff to be downloaded. Here's another punk rock label with spoken word titles I found:

www.alternativetentacles.com

Granted I don't think a lot of indie rockers are intelligent enough to lay down their own high quality audio book but they go to Noam Chomsky and get him to do it. Any way it's interesting. I don't think the state of audio content is anywhere near the dire straits of the popular, radio-played music world, but with the world of podcasting and more digital downloading of spoken word, popular independent producers of great audio learning content could start popping up. And I guess by independent I mean not owned by giant multinational corporations, but I think a lot of audio book publishers are more or less independent or so we think but the AOL-Time Warner's and Rupert Murdoch's Harper-Collins's of the world cast a wide swath. What I'm saying is we need a punk rock genre of audio book. Maybe.

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Audio Samples For Rent!

Just wanted to give a note to all of you that the Brian Tracy Author Page is up and running and looks to be a great addition to our other author pages. Tracy is best suited for those that are interested in pursuing or enhancing their business career. From what I've looked over today, he has many titles that zero in particularly on sales and marketing.

In other news, I wanted to give you all some more links to sites that feature audio samples. This time I'm focusing on audio membership sites, figuring they have to feature some kind of sample right? Well.....

Audioqueue is first up. With categories like "Appearance" and "Feelings" I felt like their page layout was a little too... inaccessible maybe? I went on, hoping for detailed product descriptions repleat with 20 minute audio samples for you all to hear. I was again, as per usual in this hard, hard life, disapointed. No samples, just a picture (sometimes even that isn't available) and a brief description followed by a plea to sign up for their 20 buck a month club. I might check the competition out before I go with you guys.

Audio-To-Go features no samples and their product pages are so brief they just fit them all on one big page insteand of breaking them up individually. I think I like them, but I guess their presentation doesn't it really do it for me either. Seems to me, these audio book clubs are forming a pattern of no audio samples. How am I supposed to know what I'm getting from a picture? What if I'm one of those guys that's just casaully browsing. What if I'm not an avid reader and I don't know who an author is? This stuff seems catered to people in the know and I feel like a loser.

Audiobookclub, what my good friend and co-worker david has called the BMG of audiobooks, has alot of samples! I'm listening to this one from James Patterson's "3rd Degree". I have absolutely no idea what this book is about other than that it seems to be some kind of detective story involving avid runners. Hah. The audio sample is ok. For some reason I want GREAT quality audio samples because I feel I deserve nothing less when I get something for nothing.

Simplyaudiobooks was by far my favorite of the audio book rental sites. This is just the tops as far as presentation and product description. They basically have all your basic top sellers but alas, they don't have any audio samples. My search was in vain, but I left the place with a smile so I guess the world isn't so bad after all.

Ok, so this sort of turned into an amateur hour referendum on the state of audio book rental subscription sites. I didn't mean for that to happen and I think its giving me an idea for a new article. As it stands, i found no audio samples on any of these sites but I hope the information is useful nonetheless. At least it was for me. I think I'll go now. Final thoughts? Uh, the grapes I'm currently eating in front of the computer are real sour. Yeah! Have a good day wherever you are.

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April 06, 2005

Found a Great Forum For iPod Audio Book Listeners

Today I found some very popular forums at www.ipodlounge.com. This site looks like an awesome resource for iPod lovers and I've just begun to look at it. I downloaded their free 2005 iPod Lounge Buyers' Guide. And I also checked out their Books and Spoken Word section in their forums which discuss Books on CD, Audible.com, and Podcasts all relating to your iPod. Check out the forums for yourself: http://forums.ipodlounge.com

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Audio Samples On The Web

We've been recording some podcasts recently and to spice things up a bit we've been giving a showcase of a few handpicked audio samples culled from various web resources. Not every retailer has an audio sample of a given book so it became a search that yielded only a few results. I want to give you a look at the websites that offer samples. As you'll see, some of them offer an extensive selection (audible) while others are just plain paltry (Audio Renaissance)

First off we'll start with the aforementioned audible.com. They basically have every title they carry repleat with a good sample Most are good quality here's one for "America: The Audiobook "

By far the most generous with their audio samples is Nightingale Conant's website. They offer multiple samples from a given book with added bonus of each sample being an average of about 15 minutes long. You basically can hear the whole book at that rate. Quality is crummy but you get what you pay for on this count. Here's some words of wisdom from Brian Tracy's "The Power Of Clarity"

By far the worst supplier of audio books is Audio Rensaissance. I hate to rage on AR because I believe they are one of the best providers of quality audio books and lets face it, audio samples are a perk, not a normal feature. Nevertheless, they have nothing more than a small page of samples for their newer releases. This is great if you want to hear a brand new hot off the press best seller, but now if you want to hear one of their more obscure titles. Audible just plain beats them to the punch. Here's a look at their page for audio samples.

Anyway, I just wanted to give you a brief look at what's out there. There are only a few more pages that offer samples. There are a few retailers and publishers that offer samples for select titles. The most notable and comprehensive providers are: Blackstone Audio, Harper Collins, and Time Warner Audio. If you look through their catalogues, you'll see many if not most offer samples. I do think this is a unique and cool feature every retailer/publisher should offer. It not only gives a better example of what you're about to buy, but it also utilizes the medium in a special way unique to its strengths. Yeah. Hope this was of some help.

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The State Of Audio Samples

First off we'll start with the aforementioned audible.com. They basically have every title they carry repleat with a good sample Most are good quality here's one for "America: The Audiobook "

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April 05, 2005

Self Development Publishers

In preparations for tomorrows Focus on Self Development podcast I entered in 4 more Self Development Publishers and they are:

New Harbinger Publications
New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network
Effective Learning Systems
Himalayan Institute Press

The one that interested me most was New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network which has produced over 2,000 radio programs of dialogues with leaders in every walk of life. In depth talks with everyone major in self development are here:

Ram Dass
Joseph Campbell
Shakti Gawain
Andrew Weil
Wayne Dyer
Leo Buscaglia
Bernie Siegel
The Dalai Lama
Deepak Chopra
Thomas Moore
Marianne Williamson
Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Dan Millman
Thich Nhat Hanh
Neale Donald Walsch
Caroline Myss
Eckhart Tolle
Jack Kornfield
Louise Hay

And the list goes on and on with artists, religious leaders, and tons of people I haven't heard of. Literally thousands of titles that you can get from them on audio cassette. And many of them have lengthy samples that you can listen to online. An enormous resource from some of the greatest minds of our time.

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April 04, 2005

Author Pages Are Up!

Been alot going on over here at the Learn Out Loud HQ. On my end, the week's work was putting up some author pages which when all is said and done are probably the best resource I could possibly invent for finding every audio resource by a given author. You even get a nice biographical sketch researched by yours truly and a snazzy picture. I want to give you all a set of links for the current pages that are up. So without further blabbering here you are:

Dan Millman
Joseph Campbell
Wayne Dyer
Tom Peters
Andrew Weil
Zig Ziglar
The Dalai Lama
Deepak Chopra

Below the biographies you will see 2 or three featured items and then a list of every title I compiled by each other. This list was culled from every online audio book retailer I have at my disposal (the list is growing geometrically), and many of them are titles offered only by the author. So hopefully you'll find some things there that you didn't know existed before. Enjoy!

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The Gargantuan Power of Anthony Robbins

We've put up I believe every single audio and video title that Anthony Robbins offers now. Today I finished putting up the individual PowerTalk! series that Audio Renaissance has released. These consist of one tape of Tony Robbins talking about a subject and on the second tape conducting an interview with one of the leaders in the field on that topic. And the people he gets are major in the self development and business fields: Dr. Wayne Dyer, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Leo Buscaglia, Dr. John Gray, Dr. Stephen R. Covey, Dr. Barbara De Angelis, former UCLA coach John Wooden, and a few others. You can get all these titles individually, you can get them in the Professional Series which focuses on financial goals, or you can get the Personal Series which focuses on relationships and emotional development, or you can get them as a complete set with PowerTalk I & II. So check them all out on our Anthony Robbins page:

www.learnoutloud.com/tonyrobbins

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April 03, 2005

Rental Sites

Just about every week or so I come across a new audiobook rental site most of which are designed like a Netflix scenario where you get a certain number at a time with no late fees and you pay a certain amount a month. Here I thought I'd list them off so anyone can check them out. Of course we'll be writing up detailed pages on all these sites very soon and probably an article comparing and contrasting them to see what might be best. Here's what I've found so far and you can click on them to check them out:

Simply Audiobooks
Audio Adventures
Audio to Go
Booksfree.com
Jiggerbug
Audio Queue
Audio Book Club

And the one I found today:

Kitabe

Booksfree.com and Kitabe are MP3-CD based which I'm sure cuts down on their shipping costs since you can fit a whole audiobook on one MP3-CD. But you'd need a MP3-CD player or maybe you can transfer them to your iPod and how many good audio books are available on MP3-CD? We'll find out for you.

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April 02, 2005

Bible on Audio for Upcoming Topic Pages

Busy day working the Topic Pages which we'll be featuring on our live site real soon. Our first topics are "Bible on Audio", "Travel USA", and "Real Estate". I've been entering in every audio Bible known to man including Bibles in every format: CD, Cassette, MP3, and Digital Downloadble Bibles, including Bibles read by a full cast with music to Bibles read by the single voice of James Earl Jones. And you can get just the Old Testament or just the New or just about any indivdual book you want, and you can get them in the King James Version, or the NIV or the English Standard Version or the New Living Translation or any other major translation. My main resource so far has been The Bible Source. They're much better organized than Amazon when it comes to browsing Bibles and they've even got some listening samples so you can get a taste for what you're buying. But when I finish our Bible Topic page I assure you it will be the best and most complete Bible on Audio page on the whole WORLD WIDE WEB!

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