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An audiobook (or talking book) is a recording of a text being read. [1]

104 relations: A Child's Christmas in Wales, A-side and B-side, Abridgement, Advanced Audio Coding, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Amazon (company), American Foundation for the Blind, Assistive Media, Audible (store), Audie Award, Audio Publishers Association, BBC, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra, Book of the Month Club, BookExpo America, Books for the Blind, Books on Tape (company), Bookshare, Bookspan, Braille, Caedmon Audio, Canada, Chicago Tribune, CNIB, Compact Cassette, Compact disc, Compressed audio optical disc, DAISY Digital Talking Book, Deyan Audio, Duvall Hecht, Dylan Thomas, E. M. Delafield, Edgar Allan Poe, Financial Times, G.I. Bill, Germany, Gladys Hasty Carroll, Helen Keller, Hey Diddle Diddle, Jim Dale, Joe Hill (writer), John Masefield, Learning Ally, Library of Congress, LibriVox, Listening Books, Literary Guild, LP record, ..., Malayalam, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Münster, Morning Edition, MP3, Narration, National Audio Theatre Festival, National Endowment for the Arts, National Recording Registry, Neuromancer, New York (magazine), New York Public Library, NPR, P. G. Wodehouse, Phonograph, Pingshu, Playaway, Podcast, Portable media player, Publishers Weekly, Radio audiobook, Radio drama, Random House, Recorded Books, Recording studio, Red Bank, New Jersey, Royal Institution, Royal National Institute of Blind People, Rudyard Kipling, Rumpelstiltskin, Smartphone, SoundScriber, Speech synthesis, Spoken word album, Star Wars (radio), Stephen King, Tablet computer, The New York Times, The Raven, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Thomas Edison, Visual impairment, Voice acting, Waldenbooks, Walkman, Weed control, West German Audio Book Library for the Blind, William Gibson, Windows Media Audio, World War II, 1952 in music, 8-track tape. Expand index (54 more) »

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 terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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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 a proprietary audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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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

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

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Audible (store)

Audible is a seller and producer of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming on the Internet.

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Audie Award

An Audie Award (or Audie), bestowed annually in the United States, recognizes outstanding audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.

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Audio Publishers Association

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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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radio 3

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

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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BBC Radio 4 Extra

BBC Radio 4 Extra is a British digital radio station broadcasting archive repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes nationally, 24 hours a day.

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Book of the Month Club

The Book of the Month Club (founded 1926) is a United States subscription-based e-commerce service that offers a selection of five 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) is the largest 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 emphasized unabridged audiobook recordings for schools and libraries.

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Bookshare

Bookshare is the world's largest online library of accessible ebooks for people with print disabilities.

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Bookspan

Bookspan LLC is a New York-based online book seller, 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 specialising in audiobooks and other literary content.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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CNIB

CNIB (INCA) is a volunteer agency and charitable organization 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 Cassette

The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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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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DAISY Digital Talking Book

DAISY (Digital Accessible Information SYstem) is a technical standard for digital audiobooks, periodicals and computerized text.

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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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Duvall Hecht

Duvall Young Hecht (born April 23, 1930 in Los Angeles, California) is 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"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

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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 (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a Japanese-owned (since 2015), English-language international daily newspaper headquartered in London, with a special emphasis on business and economic news.

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G.I. Bill

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

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western 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, 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, narrator, singer, director, and composer.

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Joe Hill (writer)

Joseph Hillstrom King (born June 4, 1972), better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American author and comic book writer.

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John Masefield

John Edward Masefield (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) English poet and writer, was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930.

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Learning Ally

Learning Ally, which was previously named Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic or RFB&D, is a non-profit volunteer organization operating nationwide in the United States.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is 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.

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Listening Books

Listening Books is a UK charity that provides a subsidised subscription online and postal audiobook library service to anyone unable to read a print text due to an illness, disability, learning difficulty or mental illness.

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Literary Guild

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

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LP record

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

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Malayalam

Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken across the Indian state of Kerala by the Malayali people and it is one of 22 scheduled languages of India.

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Mary Had a Little Lamb

"Mary Had a Little Lamb" is an English language nursery rhyme of the early nineteenth-century American origin.

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Münster

Münster (Low German: Mönster; Latin: Monasterium, from the Greek μοναστήριον monastērion, "monastery") 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 an audio coding format for digital audio.

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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 important, 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, and 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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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.

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Phonograph

The phonograph is a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.

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Pingshu

In Chinese culture, Pingshu, or 说书 (shuoshu), meaning “storytelling”, is one of forms of entertainment in mass culture in China.

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Playaway

Playaway is a brand of portable media players designed for circulation in libraries by Findaway World, LLC, based in Solon, Ohio.

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Podcast

A podcast, or generically netcast, is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download and listen to.

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Portable media player

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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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.

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Radio drama

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

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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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 sound recording, mixing, and audio production 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, New Jersey, incorporated in 1908 and located on the Navesink River, the area's original transportation route to the ocean and other ports.

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Royal Institution

The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often abbreviated as the Royal Institution or Ri) is an organisation devoted to scientific education and research, based in London.

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Royal National Institute of Blind People

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is a UK charity offering information, support and advice to almost two million 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 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

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Rumpelstiltskin

Rumpelstiltskin is a fairytale popularly associated with Germany (where he is known as Rumpelstilzchen).

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Smartphone

A smartphone is a handheld personal computer with a mobile operating system and an integrated mobile broadband cellular network connection for voice, SMS, and Internet data communication; most, if not all, smartphones also support Wi-Fi.

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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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Star Wars (radio)

An expanded radio dramatization of the original Star Wars trilogy was produced in 1981, 1983, and 1996.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Tablet computer

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

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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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 paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.

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Visual impairment

Visual impairment, also known as vision impairment or vision loss, is a decreased ability to see to a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses.

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Voice acting

Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs or providing voices to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user.

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Waldenbooks

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

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Walkman

Walkman is a Sony brand tradename, originally used for portable audio cassette players from the late 1970s onwards.

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Weed control

Weed control is the botanical component of pest control, which attempts to stop weeds, especially noxious or injurious weeds, from competing with desired flora and fauna, this includes domesticated plants and livestock, and in natural settings, it includes stopping non local species competing with native, local, species, especially so in reserves and heritage areas.

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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

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

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1952 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1952.

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8-track tape

The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly known as the eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, or simply eight-track) is a magnetic tape sound-recording technology that was popular in the United States from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when the Compact Cassette format took over.

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References

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

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