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| AdamBridger |
Posted - 11 Aug 2011 : 16:41:12
Has there ever been or any plans to release any Forgotten Realms audiobooks on CD?
The Black Library has had big success with their Warhammer 40,000 and Horus Heresy audiobooks and are really working hard to expand their range, and I was wondering if there have been or will be any Forgotten Realms audiobooks or even in any of the other WotC range of products? |
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| Quale |
Posted - 16 Aug 2011 : 07:50:08
The problem with them it takes much more time to listen than to read. I couldn't use them in the gym cause of the background music, but when you're doing sprint training it helps with the boredom. |
| AdamBridger |
Posted - 14 Aug 2011 : 11:41:50
Audiobooks don't have to be audio versions of published books. Audio exclusive books could be an option - i.e specifically written for audio and more suited to the process of recording. |
| Dennis |
Posted - 14 Aug 2011 : 07:20:46
I'm not really into audiobooks. And if I'd buy any, it would be as gifts for friends, who are sometimes too lazy to read. |
| Tasker Daze |
Posted - 14 Aug 2011 : 03:37:26
quote:
Originally posted by AdamBridger
Maybe if they started off with an abridged version of a Drizzt novel and if that was successful they could look into doing some audio exclusive books.
I can do an abridged version! "Drizzt got into a fight. Despite incredible odds, he kicked much ass. Then he got all emo about it. The end."   |
| Lily M Green |
Posted - 13 Aug 2011 : 23:21:19
I'd go for audiobooks, as I've said before, just like ebooks they're great from an accessibility pov. |
| Caolin |
Posted - 13 Aug 2011 : 18:31:24
quote:
Originally posted by AdamBridger
Has there ever been or any plans to release any Forgotten Realms audiobooks on CD?
The Black Library has had big success with their Warhammer 40,000 and Horus Heresy audiobooks and are really working hard to expand their range, and I was wondering if there have been or will be any Forgotten Realms audiobooks or even in any of the other WotC range of products?
The latest Star Wars series Fate of the Jedi has been produced for Audiobooks and they are amazing. They are closer to a radio drama haveing one voice actor doing all the voices ,sound FX and music as well. Very high production quality. I don't think you could do this with every FR novel...just way too many of them. But maybe they could do the hardcover books. The latest Elminster series would have been great as an audiobook. |
| Kno |
Posted - 12 Aug 2011 : 10:57:12
I remember seeing Ed's audiobooks |
| Thieran |
Posted - 12 Aug 2011 : 10:36:42
There are abridged audio drama versions of the Drizzt novels - in German! They sell quite well, as far as I know (and they are officially licensed, of course).
Edit: Here is a link with a sample (featuring Malice, Briza, Vierna and baby Drizzt, and then Drizzt as the voice-over narrator - starring Brad Pitt's German dubbing voice): http://www.merlausch.de/drizzt-01-der-dritte-sohn/ |
| Fellfire |
Posted - 12 Aug 2011 : 04:55:28
After a trauma I experienced a few years ago, I found audio books to be a great source of entertainment for the bed-ridden. I enjoyed many of Weis/Hickman's Dragonlance novels, but being heavily medicated at the time I found 6 CD's per book tough to follow, but relaxing nonetheless. They'd have been better if they got Barry White as a reader. |
| AdamBridger |
Posted - 11 Aug 2011 : 17:30:41
Maybe if they started off with an abridged version of a Drizzt novel and if that was successful they could look into doing some audio exclusive books. |
| Erik Scott de Bie |
Posted - 11 Aug 2011 : 17:28:09
That's always a possibility. I myself would like to see audiobooks of the FR novels. This is the sort of feedback WotC would need to see on its own boards, in letters, etc.
Cheers |
| Dennis |
Posted - 11 Aug 2011 : 17:25:24
I doubt if they'd release any, other than Drizzt novels, I guess. |
