Bedtime Storytelling Revisited : Le Père Castor and Children’s Audiobooks
Résumé
Bedtime storytelling revisited : Le Père Castor and children's audiobooks While audiobooks in England and United States have been popular for a very long time, they are late or even newcomers in France, developping in the last decade of the XXth century with Livraphone (number one publisher with more than 2000 titles), Livrior, Audible and Gallimard being the majors in the field. As in their English counterparts, production consists in classical or contemporary texts being recorded by their authors or by actors, in order to be listened to at home, in cars or public transportation. A quick overview of the public targeted shows that, in France, it was firstly and for a long time intended for children and young people, then developped for languages learning methods for a mixed public and visually impaired people who accounted for 3 millions-so 4,7 % of French population-in 2000. The latest target is now women who represent 75% of paper books readers. Primary audiobooks were recorded on tapes, then CD's, but the tendency since four or five years is, as elsewhere, to download the book from the publisher's website or online booksellers and to run it on multiple portable devices, Ipods, PDA, Pocket PC or MP3. Despite the wildly popular use of MP3 among high school and college students-(it took only three years for the MP3 in France to equal sales record that the previous walkman had taken ten years to reach), there aren't many educational audiobooks in this format.
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