Editing Audiobook (section)

==Use==
[[File:Farm Extension Worker.jpg|thumb|Audiobook used to disseminate information among farmers in [[Kenya]].]]
Audiobooks have been used to teach children to read and to increase reading comprehension. They are also useful for the [[Blindness|blind]]. The National [[Library of Congress]] in the U.S. and the [[CNIB|CNIB Library]] in [[Canada]] provide fees for audiobook library services to the visually impaired; requested books are mailed out (at no cost) to clients. Founded in 1996, [[Assistive Media]] of Ann Arbor, Michigan was the first organization to produce and deliver spoken-word recordings of written journalistic and literary works via the Internet to serve people with visual impairments.

About 40 percent of all audiobook consumption occurs through public libraries, with the remainder served primarily through retail book stores. Library download programs are currently experiencing rapid growth (more than 5,000 public libraries offer free downloadable audiobooks). Libraries are also popular places to check out audiobooks in the CD format.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hclib.org/pub/bookspace/BookListAction.cfm?list_num=475&CatID=475 |title=New Audio |publisher=Hclib.org |date=15 June 2012 |access-date=2 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215065030/http://www.hclib.org/pub/bookspace/BookListAction.cfm?list_num=475&CatID=475 |archive-date=15 February 2012 }}</ref> According to the [[National Endowment for the Arts]]' study, "Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America" (2004), audiobook listening increases general literacy.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://arts.gov/publications/reading-risk-survey-literary-reading-america-0|title=Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America (Research Division Report #46)|author=National Endowment for the Arts|date=June 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701115326/https://www.arts.gov/publications/reading-risk-survey-literary-reading-america-0|archive-date=1 July 2014}}</ref>