IPod and MP3 players are the new rage, almost every one posses them and are hooked on to these devices. It is no wonder as the busy lifestyle we lead, we can’t help but squeeze out time to listen to music on the way to work or when we are exercising or are out on a walk. No wonder that audio book sales are soaring. The combination of audio books and ipods are now making it possible for people to listen to their books on tape where ever they want.

The demand for ipods can be very well understood by the sale statistics of apple. Apple and its many retail partners managed to sell 88 iPods per minute in the year 2006 which totaled 46,432,000 iPods sold. This figure comes down to more then 1 iPod sold per second!! This is absolutely a mind boggling figure.  The festive season from October and December are the busiest business season of the year.

Ipod Audiobook sales have been on a rise. In the year 2005, the audio book sales totaled a figure of $871 million. This rise in the sales of Audio books sales is due to the rise in popularity of downloadable audio books. This demand of downloadable audio books represented 9 percent of total audio book sales in 2005, although this number may seem too small but if you look closely,, it is a 50 percent increase in sales from the year 2004.and most likely the trend shall follow in the years to come.

Almost all new cars are now capable of playing digital audio files; this is the reason why the sales of audio files are expected to increase. The statistics shows that 97 million Americans drive work everyday, all these people are stuck in traffic jam almost everyday, these people can easily listen to music in their cars. We can also listen to our ipod audio books when we are exercising, or while walking home or to our place of work. In addition to this there are several audio books that can easily help you fall asleep or help you to relax.

Many business men love to listen to motivational stuff on their ipod audio books, there are also students who listen to literature on their ipods and they can also learn a new language with the help of ipod audio books.

It is easy to download your audio book from the Internet. All you have to do is select your title, make the secure purchase, and then you are all set to download. The download takes seconds to a few minutes depending on the size of the file on most computers. If you have a dialup, the download process is bound to be slower, to overcome this handicap you can select the smallest size file for each title. These files are not of a very good quality, but it still sounds as good as any audio book CD that you buy from the store. Once you are done with downloading your audio book, you can play it on your PC, or burn it to disc, or you can even load it to your iPod or MP3 player.