[Sig-bwp] NPR: Audio Book Publishers Battle for iPod Profits

[Gerry Mckiernan]

Audio Book Publishers Battle for iPod Profits
 
By Karen Grigsby Bates

Day to Day, December 7, 2005 · Audio books comprise only about 10 percent of the book market, but their soaring popularity is boosting otherwise static publishing profits. Now Web sites such as Audible.com, an online seller of audio books, and other audio book publishers and content providers are in a battle for your space iPod or MP3player.

[ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5042592 ]

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library 
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu