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There are some great commercial audiobook production companies, who use different actors/speakers for different characters, and also incorporate music, sound effects etc, making the audiobooks rather like sound dramas, even though they still stick to the original text, word for word. Examples of such production companies are "Full Cast Audio", "Audio Renaissance" and "Defiance Audio".
A really great audiobook done like this is Dune by Frank Herbert, produced by "Audio Renaissance".
A really great example of an audiobook done by a single actor, who does different voices for different characters, is J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The audiobook version, narrated by Rob Inglis, is a work of genius.
A good lending library, Audible.com and alt.binaries.mp3.audiobooks are the best sources of audiobooks in my experience.
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