Audio has been around since, I suppose, the spoken language. The difference now is distribution and availability. Audiobooks, podcasts, smart phones, voice controlled home speaker systems, connected cars, and who knows what will come next.
I’m not going to pretend to be a lifelong audiophile who knows the ins and outs of dB, wavelength, pop filters, and certainly not...
In a nutshell, the answer to Why Now? is because we can. Sure, microphones and book narrators have been around a long time. But...
StoryOrigin is such a feature-rich source for authors and now there's support for audiobook reviews, too. Here's the video version just for kicks: https://youtu.be/iCoNIiSDW8k...