Jul
28
Audio books will no longer be sold on cassette tapes at Hachette due to poor demand. Cassette player sales have dwindled dramatically with sales dropping from 18 million in 1994 to 480,000 in 2007. Frankly, it surprises me more that anyone is still buying a new portable cassette player.
Cassette audio books accounted for 7 percent share of the audio book market and while retailers have, for the most part, discontinued their inventory, there still is a small consumer base of libraries and truckers who keep up demand.
Via New York Times.
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Believe it or not, I went looking for a new tape player last year. And had to get mine from the Salvation Army–or was it Goodwill? The reason, most of my local library’s collection of audiobooks are still on cassettes. And I like that with a cassette, it starts exactly where I stopped last time.
that’s what my Father in law likes about them too, and a lot of older people I know in the libraries like them because when the listen to them in bed they don’t have to remember where they are and a lot of the cheaper cd players still don’t remember where people stop.