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It wasn't till the eighties that the medium began to catch the attention of book retailers, and then book retailers started displaying audiobooks on bookshelves relatively than in separate displays.After three decades in California, Narciso Barranco was arrested by brokers when weeding outside the house an IHOP, stirring outrage and a fight to stop… Read More