Archive for the 'audiobooks' Category

It’s only December 20th, but it’s not too early to jumpstart one of my New Year’s resolutions: It’s time to put the Scanner Darkly book club discussion to bed. Let it die with dignity, no teary farewells or long goodbyes.

Confession time: Books are my profession and music is my obsession, but television is my most crippling addiction.

Shall we get this eMusic book club going?

Book Club!

23Oct07

Drum roll please: The first selection for eMusic’s brand new, sure to be stimulating book club is…

It’s just about time to kick off the first eMusic book club. Yay! I’ve narrowed down our choices to four undeniably dark but incredibly juicy books–two are science fiction and two are true crime. None are what you’d call light reading (or listening, as the case may be), but I think their profundity will make [...]

Wow, it feels a little bizarre (in a good way) to be posting on a blog that I’ve been reading for so long. The past few weeks have been a whirlwind — getting settled in my new job as Audiobooks Store Manager, learning new eMusic lingo, finding the coffee machine, preparing for launch. The normal [...]

We’re very excited today to introduce a new service: eMusic audiobooks. You asked for it and you got it — in a recent eMusic poll, more than 49% of you asked us to sell audiobooks. Typical of eMusic, however, we’re doings things a little differently: our audiobooks will be MP3 files. This is a breakthrough [...]

na: audiobooks!

18Sep07

While I’m by no means implying that other days around here are merely ho-hum, today is kind of a big deal at eMusic. Not only do we have a whole host of exciting new releases — Beirut! Kevin Drew! Les Savy Fav! — but today also sees the launch of our new audiobooks service. We [...]