"The Future of Reading" Library Journal 11/1/09
Found this while researching for a new essay on the website. The essay will be about valuing the attention, focus and comprehension skills involved in listening to an audio book as much as we value "basic" literacy skills--decoding and encoding written language. That means thinking of the audio book as its own kind of animal, and not an add-on, or as so often happens, a remedial tool. Well-meaning adults often tell struggling readers to only listen if they are reading, giving a message that listening and understanding stories and information is less valuable than reading. They are also making what could have been a successful learning moment into one that emphasizes a deficiency, and changing a pleasurable experience into a punitive one.
In Tom Peter's Library Journal essay, he advises librarians to stay on top of what is happening with the way books and and their content are delivered to the audience, and to be willing to adapt. He lists some fascinating possibilities, and notes that audio books are an area of growth in a somewhat moribund publishing industry.
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