Discourse: A REVIEW OF SPOKEN WORD RECORDS Available to Purchase

AT A TIME when tape cassettes are being marketed and promise in time to replace discs as the standard form of sound recording, it may be thought inopportune to write about discs of literature. But the latter are still being issued successfully, and there are good reasons why they should continue to be bought. For one thing, discs do not have to be rewound after each hearing; besides, there must be several hundreds of record players for every tape‐cassette player and rewinder in British homes, although doubtless this position could eventually be reversed. By the time that occurs, however, we shall be in the midst of yet another communications revolution, as teleplayers and videotapes become a commercial proposition.