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This article presents a review of the current state of the quickly emerging digital audiobook market for libraries. The growing end-user groups exist for digital audiobook content and services include commuters and other travelers, exercise enthusiasts and people with print impairments. The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped has been the major supplier of recreational talking books for U.S. citizens with print impairments. Although several strong commercial digital audiobook services have been established in the North American market, it remains a rough time for the industry, with official an de facto standards and best practices still emerging in almost every facet of the business. One of the mainstream suppliers of digital audiobooks is Audible.com. It is designed to meet the needs of the individual reader. However, it welcomes business from libraries. Digital audiobooks come in a proprietary version of MP3 with an .AA file extension. Users can listen to content on certain compatible MP3 players. OverDrive launched its service in November 2004. As of May, its master collection contained more than 1,770 titles. Brilliance Audio was the company's first major supplier of digital audiobooks.

The article offers information about information science products, including the SmartWatch supply risk monitoring tool by LexisNexis Legal & Professional, the addition of documents about U.S. human rights policies in Argentina to the ProQuest Digital National Security Archive, and the Acoustik digital audiobook purchasing mobile device application by Baker & Taylor.

Mentions that the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center and the Alliance Library System have announced the program, eAudio, for visually impaired readers. Use of digital, downloadable books; Availability of digital audio players from the Talking Book Center; Efforts to offer textbooks in digital format.

This section offers news briefs on the digital content industry. Ingrain Digital Group acquired digital audiobook platform flora Audiofy Corp. Twitter has reportedly reached an agreement with investors to raise $15 million in funding at approximately an $80 million premoney valuation. Vivisímo, Inc. launched the Velocity Discovery Module which allows organizations to classify data by topics and themes.