We established the other week that a fairly good method for grabbing my attention is sending along a press release featuring just about any film centering around a rockabilly samurai battling evildoers in a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas. Another good method? Get one of my current favorite local bands to play one of your press event.
Last night in New York's lower east side, ivy league afro-pop indie-rockers, Vampire Weekend, helped eMusic introduce their new audiobook catalog. A fitting match, I suppose, given eMusic long history of being a friend to the indie community and Vampire Weekend being a quartet of Columbia grads who surely read a few books between them on a fairly regular basis.
That can't be too easy, however, given their undoubtedly hectic rock 'n roll lifestyles. Perhaps the introduction of an audiobook like Perry Keenlyside's The History of English Literature Unabridged, read by Derek Jacobi or Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, read by Jon Cartwright and Alex Jennings into their regular van drive schedule would help ease some of the strain.
Now available on the site, via a beta tab, the new audiobook features what appears to be a pretty solid selection of titles in a number of categories like fiction, biography, drama, classics, history, and sciences. I'm not a huge audiobooks fan myself--I prefer the rush of papercuts--but if I were, I'd surely download a copy of the new Haruki Murakami book, which is avialable through the site.
The selections, which comprise the "world's first audiobooks catalog in mp3," according to eMusic, will be offered to users as a monthly subscription rate, at $9.99 a month for one or $19.99 a month for two, as part of an "introductory offer."
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