Narrowing My Focus

In this blog post I will narrow in on three questions from my previous blog post that I feel are most important for Project 3.

Question 1: How will audiobooks impact reading in general - will people become illiterate?
Ultimately, if audiobooks overtook written books then people could become illiterate because they wouldn't have to read anything anymore. Obviously this is very extreme but if there is no emphasis placed on reading physical text then people might lose important speaking and analytical skills that they will not gain through just listening to an audiobook.

Question 2: What country produces the most amount of audiobooks?
It would be interesting to see which country produces the most amount of audiobooks because then one can analyze whether people are smarter through just listening to audiobooks or also reading printed  books.

Question 3: What genres are the best sellers for audiobooks?
What kind of genres sell better for audiobooks - romance, mystery, non fiction? Then I would compare those results to what kind of genres sell best for printed books. It would be interesting to see the difference because audiobooks are more focused on narration than the content, like printed books.

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