Amazon's MatchBook feature is now active, offering discounted Kindle versions of select titles alongside orders of print copies. What does this have to do with audiobook specials, you ask? Well, at least some of these titles are also Whispersync ready, allowing buyers to "chain" titles and get some nice deals. For example: because I bought a print copy of Joe Hill's
20th Century Ghosts in 2007, I can get the Kindle e-book, ordinarily $7.99, for $2.99, and add the unabridged audiobook, ordinarily $15.95, for $7.99. Likewise, Joyce Carol Oates'
A Widow's Tale goes from $9.78 to $2.99 for Kindle, and then $24.95 to $3.99 for audio. It doesn't seem like there are a huge number of MatchBook titles so far vis-a-vis the size of Amazon, and of course only some of those are Whispersynced, but if you have much of a print book order history at Amazon, you might as well go to the
MatchBook launch page and see what the search tool brings up.