Thursday, September 14, 2006

Ok...
As I was saying yesterday before accidentally and quite rudely interrupting myself and swinging off on a tangent the current webscape regarding audiobooks is limited, at least if one compares it to its juvenile spin-off the podcast.

Interesting point here is what differentiates an audiobook from a podcast?
Definition wise perhaps it is merely that podcasts merely don't stick to a script but if we face facts the difference exists in the same fashion that differences exist between high opera and four kids thrashing out a Sex Pistols medley in their Dad's garage.
Its actually quite a pleasing analogy
On the one hand you have opera: based in control and vocal technic, establishment, requires skills and training practically from birth
Garage bands: passionate, fast paced, potentially excruciating
Well perhaps professional readers don't work to quite the same level of training as opera singers
and, of what I have heard, the podcasts with an audiobook bend ain't that bad but still the distinction is there.

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