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Two months on, after watching the biographical thriller Everest, a Mumbai professional couldn't shake off the 3D experience and started reading up on the 1996 disaster on the Internet and found a downloadable audio book on it. • Not much of a book lover, he saved the audio file on his pen drive and now plays it while maneuvering his way through the crawling Mumbai traffic. • I wouldn't have picked up a fat book to read, but I wanted to know more, the 30-year-old marketing professional says. • The ancient narrative form of storytelling, once a bedtime experience, has now got a digital spin.
It was the charm of storytelling that had Ajay Dasgupta leave his corporate job in 2013 and start the Kahaani Project in Pune. • A Dialogue in the Dark experience, where visitors are led by blind guides to navigate a darkened space, had inspired Dasgupta to start a project of storytelling sessions designed for the visually impaired. • Now, Brave Hearts Stories Book crowd sources with volunteers, records stories and uploads them on the website. • Dasgupta likes to call it a 'YouTube for stories.' "The dominant form of narrative is the visual one.
The audio book sales are predictably picking up. E-commerce major Flipkart says the audio books market is growing steadily, but a lot depends on digital rights management and how policies and structures are built around it to avoid plagiarism, says a Flipkart spokesperson. • "Audio books have a very niche set of audience and we foresee a lot of potential," he adds, pointing out how the demand for non-fiction and mythology titles in audio books is very high. • [Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Now-playing-Bedtime-stories-revamped-with-a-digital-twist/articleshow/49029748.cms]
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