This content is used by a wide audience, including the following:
- Blind, visually impaired
- Physically challenged
- Commuters
- Exercisers
- Individuals learning a second language
- Students with reading disabilities
- College students
- Young adults
- Individuals who travel long distances for their work - i.e. truckers, regional sales reps,
For some users of digital audio books, by either preference or necessity this is the only way they ingest book-length content. For others digital audio books fill a reading niche, but reading printed books and ebooks remains of interest to them.
Don't assume that a wildly popular downloadable digital audio book service in your library will eat into the circulation statistics for your printed and ebook collections.