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>Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:39:01 -0400
>From: "Mary Ball" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: #7656 recorded books in Spanish !

Barbara,
        Recorded Books, one of the companies that supplies audio books
to libraries, has a section called audiolibros, with a total of 48
titles.  It's a mix of fiction and self-help, though the fiction titles
aren't "great literature" classics.  Recorded books is
www.recordedbooks.com.
        There are also some titles for paid download at audible.com and
a very small number at amazon. With these titles, the fiction is a mix
of Spanish language origianals and translations of U.S. bestsellers,
e.g. Stepehen King in Spanish.  Funny, you can buy commercial audiobooks
in French at fnac and amazon.fr.  If there's an equivalent from the U.S.
Southwest or Mexico, that could be a good source.
         Cleveland Public Library has some titles on cassette tape that
come from Recorded Books and from some Latin American vendors.  cpl
might be able to point you to these vendors.  www.cpl.org

And that's all I know.  If cpl has Spanish language audiobooks, what
about public libraries in California, Florida, Texas?  They might have
more connections with vendors.

Mary Ball

Mary Ball
Instructor, French/Director, Language Lab
Ashland University
Ashland, OH  44805
(tel) 419 289-5945
(fax) 419 289-5791
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