Daniel Roth, editorial director of Simon and Schuster`s audio publishing division, is reflecting on the skyrocketing demand for nonmusical audiocassettes. ”This is a technological extension o… ...

I’m an English professor, so of course I enjoy reading. But looking back on my childhood, I am certain that my interest in literature was stimulated not so much by reading books myself as by ...

After understudying ”Hamlet” on the stage, Frank Muller was eager and ready for a shot at the title role. When the opportunity finally came, the mercurial actor didn`t stop with Hamlet. He ...

In the Jan. 10 Dr. Gridlock column, reader Russell Klosk suggested audio books as a way to break the monotony of commuting. "Time seems to pass quicker, and I am both learning and enjoying the ...

Each page of each “book” in it would be stored on possibly a square millimeter of tape. The library would serve 100 or more universities, each of which would have a multitude of viewing screens.

Although Books on Tape offered recordings of books across genres, Mr. Hecht was partial to works of history, especially World War II, and accounts of the life of Churchill.

Duvall Hecht in 1995 with his first wife, Sigrid, who helped him start the company Books on Tape. “Everyone looked to Duvall and Sigrid as industry leaders,” an audiobook executive said.

Books on audio tape in Spanish are becoming increasingly popular with Central and South American immigrants who are either too busy to take the time to read or too new to the United States to be ...

BOOKS: CAUGHT ON TAPE. Published May 22, 2005 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 9:14 PM EST. By Andrew Romano . Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member ...

Books on Tape;Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Books on Tape. The Libby Awards are just around the corner — and we've got the full list of finalists! On Tuesday, Feb. 4, ...

Books on Tape. Clay Bennett's Times cartoon for December 23, 2023. Clay Bennett. The son of a career army officer, Bennett led a nomadic life, attending ten different schools before graduating in ...

OUT OF THE RED (244 pp.)—Caskie St;nnetf—Random House ($3.95). The small island of Equatoria floats like a banana peel on the blue ocean swell of the Caribbean. The democratic Equatori-ans ...