Spoken word recordings first became possible with the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Edison in 1877. Novels however would remain impractical for phonographs until the 1930s. Less than a year after the invention of the phonograph, this drawing offered a future vision. History Ĭaption reads: "The phonograph at home reading out a novel." From Daily Graphic (New York), 2 April 1878. In 1994, the Audio Publishers Association established the term "audiobook" as the industry standard. The term "talking book" came into being in the 1930s with government programs designed for blind readers, while the term "audiobook" came into use during the 1970s when audiocassettes began to replace phonograph records. It was not until the 1980s that the medium began to attract book retailers, and then book retailers started displaying audiobooks on bookshelves rather than in separate displays. Many spoken word albums were made prior to the age of cassettes, compact discs, and downloadable audio, often of poetry and plays rather than books.
Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops since the 1930s.
A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements. For other uses, see Talking Book (disambiguation).Īn audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud.
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