Why are audiobooks important in literature?

A writer does not need soundtracks. With tempos, punctuations, rhythmic structures and syntaxes, he gives instructions to the reader that will allow specific sensations and intonations, just as sonic accompaniments, to play in his head during various narrative moments.

However, it is frequent that the average person does not always read with a cadence as faithful as the one the writer is asking him to; so the emotional power of certain parts of the story is lost.

An audio book, with a vocalist competent at expressing with exactitude the verbal texture of the text, would fix that.

This vocalist would thwart the audience’s natural tendency at not being able to follow the punctuation rules of the writer, or its cadence, because sometimes, people are reading a passage in the train and want to quickly finish the chapter before going to school or to work. An audiobook forces them to follow the story with the pace intended by the writer; thereby maximizing the chances of manifesting the emotional power that has been built by the tone the writer has been constructing throughout the story’s unfolding.