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With disadvantages associated with having audio books in CD formats such as length, costs, convenience, etc, it is now a better option to have them in downloadable digital formats.

When you have audio books in downloadable digital format there are no issues regarding lengths, costs,
convenience, etc.  For example, unlike audiocassettes and CDs that can’t carry an audio book except in many tapes and CDs, downloadable digital formats have no length restrictions.

In other words, having audio books in digital formats now defies the limitations and is advantages that both audiocassettes and CDs have.

A great advantage of digital audio books is how fast you can deliver the product from the producer the customer.

For instance, within a few minutes of the audio book being made it can be downloaded by customers… with downloadable digital format. But this can't happen with audiocassette tapes and CDs.

Also, the cost to the producer is very low, unlike the cost associated with audiocassette
tapes and CDs.

Even with all of these pros, there are still cons. Below is possibly the largest disadvantage of using a digital format for audio books

Bandwidth issues: Eventhough music downloads have become very poplar, audio books are harder to download due to their large size.

While a musical song can be just 4 minutes long and take very little time to download, an audio book of about 3 hours would take far longer time to download, something close to 5 or more hours - depending on the Internet connectivity of the person downloading and the state of the server at the time of downloading.

This may seem like a really negative point however below are ways you can still get full advantage of audio books in downloadable digital formats, despite this problem:

Possible solution for the bandwidth issue: This issue can be fixed by doing the download at your free time, not when you want to get the audio book at the same time.
For instance, when you leave the house for a few hours, or go to sleep at night you could begin the download.When you get back or wake up your download would have completed.

Or if your home internet connection is poor you can download the audio books in a different location.  If you have faster Internet connectivity in the office, you can do the download there.

But ensure it is allowed to do that in the office. In other words, talk to your employer about this first to be sure it is allowed.  After downloading the audio book you can then take it with you via a zip disk or a flash disk to listen to at home.

An additional solution to bandwidth and internet speed problems is to actually search to find audio books in a special format, for people with low-bandwidth Internet connections. These formats are usually those with the highest
compression ratio - thereby making the download lighter and faster.

An excellent source that I have found for audio book downloads is Spoken Network. You can find them at:

www.spokennetwork.com?cam=ama0015

 

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