There is more than just music worth listening to these days, and kids audio books can certainly be described as such. Downloading kids audio books to their personal listening devices, such as an iPod, can keep them happy on long car rides, waiting in line, and at night when just one or two stories you have read them just isn’t enough…

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With DRM-free audiobooks continuing to make inroads into the retail market and scheduled shortly to trickle into the library arena, several panels at BookExpo America (BEA) and the Audio Publishers Association Conference (APAC) (both in late May) centered on the issue of digital rights management (DRM).

DRM has been the talk of the audiobook industry since late 2007, when eMusic launched the first-ever audiobook catalog (now offering some 2500 titles) in the universally compatible MP3 format.

After months of testing DRM-free audiobook downloads on eMusic, Random House Audio determined through a digital watermark experiment that all instances of piracy came not from the DRM-free editions but from DRM-protected editions that had been hacked and ripped from CDs. And so it, too, announced that it would, through eMusic, be selling mostly DRM-free downloadable audiobooks (some ten percent of the publisher’s authors, Christopher Paolini among them, continue to hold out).

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Howdie folks, just a quick post to let you know that our product line has been updated with the newest audio books available.

Make sure to take a minute and browse around our shop (www.audiobookgeek.com) - who knows, maybe you’ll find something good to listen to!

Just a quick update here - all of our products within the AudioBookGeek database have been updated, meaning only the latest and greatest audio books are here for you to peruse.

Make sure to take some time and browse through our various categories, and see if you can find that next great listen!

All products within AudioBookGeek.com have been updated for this week. Browse around and make sure to find the next great audio book to listen to!

All audio book products have been updated in our database for 01/14/2007. Make sure to visit AudioBookGeek.com and find that next perfect audio book!

We’ve added a new feature to audiobookgeek.com - and that’s the ability to see what the 10 most popular searches are, as well as the last 200 recent searches! So, if you’re curious as to what audio books people are searching for, then browse the the last 200 audio book searches at audiobookgeek.com!

All audio book products have been updated in our database for 12/24/2006. Make sure to browse and find that next perfect audio book!

Have you listened to any audio books lately? Or have you had any experience with audio book sites that you’d like to share with us?

If you feel up to it, write a brief article (no more than 1000 words please) about a recent audio book you’ve read, or experience you’ve had with an audio book site. Simply send us a copy of the article with the following information:

1) Your name, or alias

2) An email address

3) A link to your site (with whatever link text that you’d like to use for the link).

As long as it is a well-written article, we’ll be happy to post it on our blog! What’s in it for you? Not too much, other than a good link back to your web site, and having many people reading what you have to say (feel free to link back the article from your site, if you desire to do so). We’ll all benefit from audio book reviews - I know I would, especially if it’s an audio book I haven’t listened to yet, or are planning to listen to soon.

If you’re interested, simply let us know, or send the completed post to admin@audiobookgeek.com.

Big thanks from the team at AudioBookGeek.com!