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Duncan Bruce, Head of Licensing and Partnerships at Spotify, presents a Scandinavian audiobook venture, at Spotify's headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, on November 18, 2025. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg / TT / Code 10080

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Xinhua Headlines: To read or to listen? More Chinese embracing audiobooks in age of AI

(240423) -- BEIJING, April 23, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on April 21, 2024 shows the audiobook area at the provincial library of Guizhou in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Luo Fei)

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Xinhua Headlines: To read or to listen? More Chinese embracing audiobooks in age of AI

(240423) -- BEIJING, April 23, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A citizen looks up information in a digital library system at the provincial library of Guizhou in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 21, 2024. (Xinhua/Luo Fei)

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Xinhua Headlines: To read or to listen? More Chinese embracing audiobooks in age of AI

(240423) -- BEIJING, April 23, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Liu Fang, a visually impaired teacher from Guiyang, shares her stories about reading in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 20, 2024. (Xinhua/Luo Fei)

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Xinhua Headlines: To read or to listen? More Chinese embracing audiobooks in age of AI

(240423) -- BEIJING, April 23, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This undated file photo shows Zhao Jian recounting stories from books via livestreaming at home in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua)

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Xinhua Headlines: To read or to listen? More Chinese embracing audiobooks in age of AI

(240423) -- BEIJING, April 23, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A child tries an AR device at the provincial library of Guizhou in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 21, 2024. (Xinhua/Luo Fei)

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SOUTH KOREA-SEOUL-INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR

(220601) -- SEOUL, June 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A woman listens to audiobooks at the Seoul International Book Fair in Seoul, South Korea, June 1, 2022. Launched in 1954, the Seoul International Book Fair has been the country's biggest book festival for nearly 70 years. The book fair kicked off on Wednesday and will last till June 5. (Xinhua/Wang Yiliang)

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SOUTH KOREA-SEOUL-INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR

(220601) -- SEOUL, June 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A man listens to audiobooks at the Seoul International Book Fair in Seoul, South Korea, June 1, 2022. Launched in 1954, the Seoul International Book Fair has been the country's biggest book festival for nearly 70 years. The book fair kicked off on Wednesday and will last till June 5. (Xinhua/Wang Yiliang)

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Visiting Mexico's Vasconcelos Library

STORY: Visiting Mexico's Vasconcelos Library DATELINE: April 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:11 LOCATION: Mexico City CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. exterior of the library 2. interior of the library STORYLINE: The Vasconcelos Library, which opened in 2006, is one of the largest of its kind in Mexico and one of the most-visited cultural centers in Mexico City. It is named after the Mexican politician Jose Vasconcelos. Take a closer look at the library on World Book Day. In the library, an imposing gray whale skeleton welcomes more than 4,000 visitors every day. The soaring steel frames households hundreds of thousands of books. Despite the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has made it less crowded than before, this library still has a considerable charm. The library has hundreds of titles in braille as well as audiobooks, making it a more inclusive space. It is a free public space with 40,000 meters of bookshelves and it is in the process of establishing itself as the most important library in the country and in La

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Greek NGO enriches audiobook libraries for blind, promotes public awareness

STORY: Greek NGO enriches audiobook libraries for blind, promotes public awareness DATELINE: March 31, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:05 LOCATION: Athens CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Argyro Spyridaki co-founder of "Reading to the Others" (Diavazo gia tous Allous) NGO and her colleagues working at the office 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Greek): ARGYRO SPYRIDAKI, Co-founder of "Reading to the Others" 3. various of Argyro Spyridaki working 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Greek): ARGYRO SPYRIDAKI, Co-founder of "Reading to the Others" 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Greek): ARGYRO SPYRIDAKI, Co-founder of "Reading to the Others" 6. various of people recording audiobooks STORYLINE: Argyro Spyridaki was left speechless seven years ago when her visually impaired friend Theodoros Tsatsos told her that he couldn't enjoy a literature book she suggested because it was not available in Braille or audio. In a country where on average 10,000 books are published each year, the audiobook libraries for the blind were shockingly not many. SOUNDBITE 1 (Greek): ARGYR