[Nfbf-l] [Nfb-seniors] AFB to Close its Audio Production Down...

Sherri flmom2006 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 23 12:47:31 UTC 2008 

That's really sad. Great Talking Book readers have come from AFB and I have 
been reading talking books since ancient times.

Sherri
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> AFB to Close its Audio Production Division in October  2009
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> AFB to Close its Audio Production Division in October  2009
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> New York (November 17, 2008)­After 75 years  of
> participating in the National Library Service
> (NLS) Talking Book  Program, the American
> Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is closing  its
> audio book division in October 2009 with the
> expiration of AFB's  New York headquarters' lease.
> Fans of talking books will continue to  have
> access to high quality audio books from the many
> other  accomplished audio book producers
> participating in the NLS program, as  well as
> through increasingly popular, accessible, and
> affordable  commercially produced books and internet downloads.
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> Since pioneering  the development of recorded
> books in the 1930s, AFB has produced tens  of
> thousands of Talking Books for the Library of
> Congress­a  program championed by Helen Keller
> during her tenure at AFB. AFB expects  to continue
> producing audio material for NLS and our other
> customers  until AFB leaves its present facility.
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> "As a Talking Book user  myself, I take enormous
> pride in the role AFB has played in  providing
> high-quality audio books to people who are blind
> or visually  impaired," said Carl R. Augusto, AFB
> President & CEO. "While we are  saddened to be
> exiting the Talking Book business, we are
> confident  that other audio book producers have
> sufficient studio production  capacity to handle
> NLS requirements and that blind and  visually
> impaired consumers will continue to have access
> to audio  material through the NLS program and other avenues."
>
> AFB's decision  to exit the Talking Book program
> was based on a number of factors,  including the
> financial costs that AFB incurs by participating
> in the  government-funded NLS program and the need
> to apply donor funds to those  programs that AFB
> is in a unique position to deliver.
>
> "AFB is  proud to have produced so many amazing
> audio books, and we owe a huge  thank you to AFB's
> audio book production staff and to the actors  and
> narrators whose much-loved voices have created
> wonderful and  enduring recordings," added  Augusto.
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