I've noticed that some talking book producers, like APH and Talking Book 
Publishing (Or is it publishers), hav higher quality readers than a producer 
who is less known.  I'll bet it's more expensive to use APH or Talking Book 
Publishing to record a book.  I also remember reading somewhere NLS gets 
bids from various producers and they give each producer a certain amount of 
books to record.  If the less-known producers use poorer narrators but offer 
the lowest bids and receive the most contracts, then we listeners suffer the 
consequences of poor quality.

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Subject: Re: narrators for NLS audiobooks


> My wife and I have just been talking about who's now reading books.  We've 
> got
> an Arthur C. Clark book being read by a british lady who's more suited to
> reading romances.  I suppose part of it is because of the lack of good 
> readers
> like we used to have but it seems that there is less selection provess 
> these
> days about who reads what.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
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