Some of us have discussed how difficult (if not impossible) it is to determine what audio you will get in certain Whispersync deals, in other words what audiobook companions go with particular Amazon ebooks. Those are ones where there is more than one audio of the book at Audible. For whatever reason, it seems like they almost always are classics.
This ebook is a case in point. There are four audiobooks of the title at Audible designated as "Whispersync for Voice-ready" but I can't tell which one goes with the edition of Anthony Trollope's
The Last Chronicle of Barset: The Chronicles of Barsetshire whose
webpage at Amazon is here.
The reason that I'd like to know is that the ebook has been reduced in price from the regular digital price of $7.14 to $0.99. The all-of-the-time price for the Whispersync audio companion is $3.49. So the total price of the Whispersync deal is a super
$4.48.
The ebook is not (just) the plain public domain text. It is the Oxford Worlds Classics edition, edited by Helen Small. I don't know what other benefits that there might be, but I know that there are these listed in the table of contents:
Biographical Preface
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Anthony Trollope
Trollope's Map of Barsetshire
Appendix 1: Trollope's Introduction to the Chronicles of Baretshire (1878)
Appendix 2: Trollope's Baretshire Novels and the Church
Explanatory Notes
It may be that part of the reason that the ebook is rated the high 4.5 stars, from 29 reviews, at Amazon at the present moment is because of one or more of those things.
While I don't know which audiobook corresponds to the ebook, I can tell you that the regular price of the audiobooks range in price from $16.95 to $36.74 and that the narrations range from about 30 to 35 hours in length.
You can get this great Whispersync deal (the ebook, the audiobook, and the syncing benefit) by going to
the ebook's webpage at Amazon.