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The Audiobook’s Century-Long Overnight Success (Matthew Rubery)

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Phantom Power
Episode • Nov 3, 2023 • 47m

Today we present the first episode of a miniseries on audiobooks by getting into the history and theory of the medium. Audiobooks are having a moment—and it only took them over a century to get here. Dr. Matthew Rubery, a Harvard PhD and Professor of Modern Literature at Queen Mary University of London, pioneered the study of the audiobook, its history, and its affordances in literature.  Continue reading

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