Audio books have all the right terms to become a popular trend in the near future. Going a bit more far, there is even a reasonable chance that audio books will make the concept of books as we know it today disappear.

Let us explain in the following lines how we have come to this extreme conclusion:

1. Audio books are not new – I have listened to books on tapes in the end of the eights century of the previous century – 30 years ago. The technology has developed but the concept remained the same – Audio book is a recording of the contents of a book read aloud.

All modern technologies have come to a maturity after existing for at least ten years in which their technology was improved. Take a look at digital cameras, LCD screens, Cellular phones etc. Now it is the turn of audio books.

2. User Friendly – In the last year the use of MP3 players for listening to audio books have become very popular. MP3 players are easy to use and have ideal functions for audio books - You can continue listening to an audio book from the section you stopped. MP3 players which are used to listen to downloaded audio books are far smaller than CD players used to play audio books on cds and walkmans used to play books on tapes.

3. Variety of products – More and more publishers and book sellers understand the potential of audio books and publish new audio books each day. All the best sellers could be found in an audio book version. You should not have a problem to find the latest Harry Potter audio book or Stephen King audio book.

4. Maximizing time management and productivity – Time is money and in the modern world we live in every minute counts. Audio books help us maximize our wasted time – Businessmen can listen to the latest business journals on their way to work, Children could listen to educative children audio books in the bus buck from school etc.

To sum up, audio books are here and they are not going any where. So, try them. You can even download free audio books and get a free MP3 player to play them.