I got it onto my iPhone for $14.99 as an iBook from the app store.
If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!!
-----Original Message-----
From: dark
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 5:50 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Harry Potter and the Cursed Child audiobook
Youch!
I have indeed heard the cursed child audio edition from the rnib, but I
wasn't aware that that was the only audio copy. For the record I'd still
love! to see it staged, though as usual the share holders have to get
theircut prophet and never mind anyone else.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Vlasak" <phi...@bex.net>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 11:23 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Harry Potter and the Cursed Child audiobook
Why are there no other audio versions of the new Harry Potter book except
for this one?
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child audiobook released on RNIB Library
2:30 PM EDT, AUGUST 16, 2016
Hypable
by ANDREW SIMS
A Harry Potter and the Cursed Child audiobook has been released on the
Royal National Institute of Blind People's Talking Books library, for
those in the
U.K. with sight loss.
Many Harry Potter fans have been hoping for a Cursed Child audiobook
since the script book was released on July 31. While there are no
plans for a wide
release, an audiobook version of the eighth story does exist
exclusively on the RNIB Library.
Braille and large print editions of The Cursed Child are also
available on the RNIB Library.
A rep for J.K. Rowling tells us that the Cursed Child audio edition in
the Talking Books library is "available to their members in specific,
secure formats
and is standard practice for all their publishing in order to make a
book as accessible as possible."
A sample of the audio edition can be found
on RNIB's website.
From listening to it we've learned that this book has one narrator
acting out all of the characters. The script book is read exactly as
it is printed,
with the name of the character being read before each line is said,
and the narrator puts some emotion into each line.
Rowling's rep tells Hypable that outside of the book on RNIB, there
"are no plans currently for the general release of an audio edition of
the script book."
The lack of a wider release for people outside of the sight loss
community may have to do with the fact that the script book only
exists because of the
play. If an audio book were to be released to the masses, it could
affect ticket sales for the play, since an audiobook of a stage show,
if done properly,
would likely have multiple narrators to cover all the voices.
The audiobooks for the original Harry Potter series were narrated by
Stephen Fry in the United Kingdom and Jim Dale in the United States.
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