> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gill, Kathy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 11:01 AM
> I've often wondered why (recorded books) haven't already migrated to CDs.
So have I. Immediate reason:
1) most cars have cassette players, not CD players.
Other reasons:
2) CDs seem easier to damage, harder to handle, especially
outdoors or in a car. (I don't think they really are)
3) A 12-cassette novel (note, we don't like the 2-3 cassette
abridged junk that you see in bookstores) translates to
about 18 CDs. It's a real waste to use the full stereo
music-quality of a CD for a single speaking voice, but I
don't think that the original CDs or most players for them
will do lower-bandwidth mono recording and get more than
60-70 minutes on a disk.
4) The existing body of recorded works has built up very
slowly over many years, and it's only recently that CDs
can be manufactured in very small runs cheaply enough.
I'm just glad that they aren't still on 8-track.
Bob
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