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Audiobook, the Glossary

An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud.^[1]

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A Child's Christmas in Wales

A Child's Christmas in Wales is a piece of prose by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas recorded by Thomas in 1952.

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A-side and B-side

The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings.

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Abridgement

An abridgement (or abridgment) is a condensing or reduction of a book or other creative work into a shorter form while maintaining the unity of the source.

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Advanced Audio Coding

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression.

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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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American Foundation for the Blind

The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is an American non-profit organization for people with vision loss.

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Assistive Media, Inc. is a nonprofit Internet-based reading service to serve people with visual and reading impairments.

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Audible (service)

Audible is an American online audiobook and podcast service that allows users to purchase and stream audiobooks and other forms of spoken word content.

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Audie Awards

The Audie Awards (rhymes with "gaudy"; abbreviated from audiobook), or simply the Audies, are awards for achievement in spoken word, particularly audiobook narration and audiodrama performance, published in the United States of America.

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Audio Publishers Association

The Audio Publishers Association (APA) is the first and only not-for-profit trade organization of the audiobook industry in the United States.

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AudioGO

AudioGO (formerly BBC Audiobooks) was a British publisher of audiobooks and a range of spoken word and large-print titles.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 4 Extra (formerly BBC Radio 7) is a British digital radio station from the BBC, broadcasting archived repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes nationally, 24 hours a day.

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Book of the Month

Book of the Month (founded 1926) is a United States subscription-based e-commerce service that offers a selection of five to seven new hardcover books each month to its members.

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BookExpo America

BookExpo America (commonly referred to within the book publishing industry as BEA) was an annual book trade fair in the United States.

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Books for the Blind

The Books for the Blind Program is an initiative of the United States National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) which provides audio recordings of books free of charge to people who are blind or visually impaired.

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Books on Tape (company)

Books on Tape (sometimes abbreviated BoT) is an audiobook publishing imprint of Random House which emphasizes unabridged audiobook recordings for schools and libraries.

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Bookshare is an online library of accessible ebooks for people with print disabilities, such as visual impairment, severe dyslexia, and cerebral palsy. Audiobook and Bookshare are accessible information.

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Bookspan

Bookspan LLC is a New York–based online bookseller, founded in 2000.

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Braille

Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired.

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Caedmon Audio

Caedmon Audio and HarperCollins Audio are record label imprints of HarperCollins Publishers that specialize in audiobooks and other literary content.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Cassette tape

The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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CNIB Foundation

The CNIB Foundation (Fondation INCA) is a Canadian charitable organization and volunteer agency dedicated to assisting Canadians who are blind or living with vision loss, and to provide information about vision health for all Canadians.

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.

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Compressed audio optical disc

A compressed audio optical disc, MP3 CD, or MP3 CD-ROM or MP3 DVD is an optical disc (usually a CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R or DVD-RW) that contains digital audio in the MP3 file format.

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Deyan Audio

Deyan Audio is one of the world's largest independent producers of audiobooks, having produced in excess of 12,000 titles.

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Digital Accessible Information System

Digital accessible information system (DAISY) is a technical standard for digital audiobooks, periodicals, and computerized text. Audiobook and digital Accessible Information System are accessible information, audiobooks and Blindness equipment.

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Duvall Hecht

Duvall Young Hecht (April 23, 1930 – February 10, 2022) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion.

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood.

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E. M. Delafield

Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (9 June 1890 – 2 December 1943), commonly known as E. M. Delafield, was a prolific English author.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.

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G.I. Bill

The G.I. Bill, formally known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s).

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gladys Hasty Carroll

Gladys Hasty Carroll (June 26, 1904 – April 1, 1999) was an American novelist active from the late 1920s into the 1980s.

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Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.

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Hey Diddle Diddle

"Hey Diddle Diddle" (also "Hi Diddle Diddle", "The Cat and the Fiddle", or "The Cow Jumped Over the Moon") is an English nursery rhyme.

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Jim Dale

Jim Dale (born James Smith; 15 August 1935) is an English actor, composer, director, narrator, singer and songwriter.

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Joe Hill (writer)

Joseph Hillström King (born June 4, 1972), better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American writer.

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John Masefield

John Edward Masefield (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967.

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Learning Ally

Learning Ally, previously named Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), is a non-profit volunteer organization operating nationwide in the United States. Audiobook and Learning Ally are accessible information.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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LibriVox

LibriVox is a group of worldwide volunteers who read and record public domain texts, creating free public domain audiobooks for download from their website and other digital library hosting sites on the internet. Audiobook and LibriVox are accessible information.

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Literary Guild

The Literary Guild of America is a mail order book club selling low-cost editions of selected current books to its members.

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Little Thinker

Little Thinker series is an interactive listening experience audiobook involving storytelling, education, music, and art, originally released through a company called Jerome Enterprises based in Florida.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, specifically a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk.

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Malayalam

Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people.

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Mary Had a Little Lamb

"Mary Had a Little Lamb" is an English language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century American origin, first published by American writer Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830.

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Münster

Münster (Mönster) is an independent city (Kreisfreie Stadt) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Morning Edition

Morning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by NPR.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries.

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Narration

Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.

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National Audio Theatre Festival

The National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc. (NATF) is a US-based organization sponsoring a yearly, five-day workshop on radio drama, voice-over and the audio arts, as well as other special training.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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National Recording Registry

The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress.

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Neuromancer

Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.

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Penguin Random House

Penguin Random House LLC is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House.

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Phonograph

A phonograph, later called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910), and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of recorded sound.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pingshu

Pingshu or pinghua refers to the traditional Han Chinese performing art of storytelling with no musical accompaniment.

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Play (theatre)

A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Playaway

Playaway is a brand of portable media players designed for circulation in libraries by Playaway Products, LLC, based in Solon, Ohio. Audiobook and Playaway are audiobooks.

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Podcast

A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.

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Poetry

Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

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A portable media player (PMP) or digital audio player (DAP) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files.

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Public library

A public library is a library, most often a lending library, that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents.

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Radio audiobook

Radio audiobook is a radio programming format for audiobooks. Audiobook and radio audiobook are accessible information and audiobooks.

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Radio drama

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.

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Record shop

A record shop or record store is a retail outlet that sells recorded music.

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Recorded Books

Recorded Books is an audiobook imprint of RBMedia, a publishing company with operations in countries globally.

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Recording studio

A recording studio is a specialized facility for recording and mixing of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.

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Red Bank, New Jersey

Red Bank is a borough in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Royal Institution

The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often the Royal Institution, Ri or RI) is an organisation for scientific education and research, based in the City of Westminster.

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Royal National Institute of Blind People

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is a UK charity that offers information, support and advice to people in the UK with sight loss.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12.

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Rumpelstiltskin

"Rumpelstiltskin" (Rumpelstilzchen) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales.

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School

A school is both the educational institution and building designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers.

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Smartphone

A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.

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SoundScriber

SoundScriber is a dictation machine introduced in 1945 by The SoundScriber Corp.

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Speech synthesis

Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.

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Spoken word album

A spoken word album is a recording of spoken material, a predecessor of the contemporary audiobook genre.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author.

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Tablet computer

A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package.

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a detective novel by the British writer Agatha Christie, her third to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Raven

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman.

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Visual impairment

Visual or vision impairment (VI or VIP) is the partial or total inability of visual perception.

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Voice acting

Voice acting is the art of performing a character or providing information to an audience with one's voice.

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Waldenbooks

Waldenbooks was an American shopping mall-based bookstore chain operated by the Walden Book Company, Inc., and from 1995 was a subsidiary of Borders Group.

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Walkman

, is a brand of portable audio players manufactured and marketed by Japanese company Sony since 1979.

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Weed control

Weed control is a type of pest control, which attempts to stop or reduce growth of weeds, especially noxious weeds, with the aim of reducing their competition with desired flora and fauna including domesticated plants and livestock, and in natural settings preventing non native species competing with native species.

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West German Audio Book Library for the Blind

The West German Audio Book Library for the Blind (Westdeutsche Blindenhörbücherei e. V.), abbreviated WBH, is a specialist library which produces and distributes audiobooks and periodicals for blind and partially sighted persons.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.

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Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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8-track cartridge

The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that was popular from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiobook

Also known as Audio Book, Audio Books, AudioBooks, Book on cd, Book on tape, Books on cd, Cassette book, Full cast audio book, Full cast audiobook, Sound book, Speaking book, Talking book, Unabridged audio book.

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