In days gone by, the choices that entertainment consumers had was extremely limited. Until the 1970s audio players, usually reel to reel tape recorders, were far too large to make the idea of portable audio possible.

Also, the need for the machines to be permanently connected to the mains prevented anyone even using these recorders in their own garden or car.

This have changed considerably now. Even the compact cassette tape, which in the 1970s was so important in making portable audio possible, has largely been replaced by the new digital forms of technology. These digital forms of technology have opened up a totally new world for both producers and consumers of entertainment.

The advances in audio and video technology have not only meant a vast improvement in the quality of the pictures and sound that we experience, they have made it possible to enjoy entertainment in many different media formats, and in many different situations. Not only has the choice open to audio listeners and video viewers improved out of all recognition, even the printed word has now become accessible to so many more people, in so many more different forms.

By recording the printed word as spoken audio, the new producers have made it accessible to busy modern people who can now listen while driving, and also to the blind and partially sighted, who can now listen to these works without any need for special equipment, or even to learn Braille.

Now, you can be entertained and informed in sound with a new range of fully downloadable True Crime Audiobooks. One of these True Crime Audiobooks is “Facing The Wind”, which is the true story of Bob Rowe, a New York lawyer who murdered his wife and three children.

Rowe was found not guilty, because the court deemed him to be insane and therefore not fully responsible for his own actions. Apparently even the psychiatrist working with the prosecution had no real doubt that Rowe was genuinely insane.

The book “Facing The Wind” was written by journalist Julie Salamon, and it deals far more with the events leading up to the tragedy than it does with the tragedy itself.

It studies Bob Rowe's psychosis, and the reasons why it developed, and the events that caused it to happen. It also deals with the time after the event, including Bob Rowe's future marriage to, and child borne from, a deeply religious woman whom he met after being released from the institution to which the court had sent him.

It is a truly compassionate account of a genuinely horrific tragedy.