Close your eyes and read: the iPod generation turns on to audio books

From The Independent:

Sales of audio books for beach and poolside are soaring and the UK publishing industry is about to be hit by the same revolution that has overhauled the music world - the iPod-friendly download.

Interestingly, this may make it cool for young listeners to explore the classics they might not have tackled otherwise:

Listeners have embraced more challenging reads and classics that they had not managed in their usual reading schedules. Joyce's Ulysses was an audio top seller last year, as were Tolstoy's War and Peace, Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

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