Current Audiobook Specials

[Synamon]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Free Short Stories from HarperAudio

• Spanish in the Morning (from All Aunt Hagar's Children) -- Edward P Jones (50 min)
• A Study in Emerald (from Fragile Things) -- Neil Gaiman (50 min)
• Duel (from Road Rage) -- Richard Matheson (63 min)
• Can You Hear Me Now (from Two of the Deadliest) -- Marcia Talley (20 min)

download here

Has anyone managed to download these? When I click on download the audiobook plays in my browser instead (FF, Chrome, Safari on a Mac).

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

From LearnOutLoud, here's their free audiobook for the month of June. Just found it so hurry before they replace it with July's entry.

While I was poking around at the Learn Out Loud site, I found another site, Audiobooks.org, with several classic, professionally narrated freebies; look in the left-hand column under "Our Books."

The free titles are:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Kate Reading)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (Scott Brick)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Dan Lazar)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Jim Dale)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (John Lee)
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (Alexander Adams)
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (Jim Weiss)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Richard Matthews)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Michael Prichard)

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by Synamon

Has anyone managed to download these? When I click on download the audiobook plays in my browser instead (FF, Chrome, Safari on a Mac).

Once the file started playing in Firefox, I right-clicked on it and then clicked on "Save Audio As ..."

[ApK]

Originally Posted by Synamon

Has anyone managed to download these? When I click on download the audiobook plays in my browser instead (FF, Chrome, Safari on a Mac).

When I click the download buttons, IE prompts me to open or save the mp3 file. I suspect your issue is a local browser setting.

[Marrella]

I have the same problem. There are people who just don't have IE. It's some kind of javascript, maybe it only works on Windows computers.

Pity, I would have liked the Neil Gaiman story.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Marrella

I have the same problem. There are people who just don't have IE. It's some kind of javascript, maybe it only works on Windows computers.

Pity, I would have liked the Neil Gaiman story.

Which OS and browser are you using?

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by Catlady

While I was poking around at the Learn Out Loud site, I found another site, Audiobooks.org, with several classic, professionally narrated freebies; look in the left-hand column under "Our Books."

The free titles are:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Kate Reading)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (Scott Brick)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Dan Lazar)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Jim Dale)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (John Lee)
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (Alexander Adams)
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (Jim Weiss)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Richard Matthews)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Michael Prichard)

Nice, thanks...will be grabbing these when I get home

Originally Posted by Marrella

I have the same problem. There are people who just don't have IE. It's some kind of javascript, maybe it only works on Windows computers.

Pity, I would have liked the Neil Gaiman story.

It's possible your browser is just set to handle(play) the file rather than prompting you...what browser are you using?

[AnemicOak]

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (read by Anthony Heald) is Downpour's free audiobook this month.

Use code - earthfree

Winner of 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Booklist Editors’ Choice Audiobook for 2007

This Pulitzer Prize–winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers, but they will soon meet their own downfall.

Hard times come upon Wang Lung and his family when flood and drought force them to seek work in the city. The working people riot, breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee. When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded, he begins to rise in the world, even as the House of Hwang falls.

© 1931 by Pearl S. Buck. © renewed 1958 by Pearl S. Buck

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by Marrella

I have the same problem. There are people who just don't have IE. It's some kind of javascript, maybe it only works on Windows computers.

Pity, I would have liked the Neil Gaiman story.

I couldn't get the downloads with IE8.

Try downloading from this link, where three of the stories (including the Gaiman one) are listed. Seems as if these were all posted quite some time ago.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Catlady

While I was poking around at the Learn Out Loud site, I found another site, Audiobooks.org, with several classic, professionally narrated freebies; look in the left-hand column under "Our Books."

The free titles are:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Kate Reading)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (Scott Brick)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Dan Lazar)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Jim Dale)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (John Lee)
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (Alexander Adams)
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (Jim Weiss)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Richard Matthews)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Michael Prichard)

You struck gold! Thanks much. I added this to the OP

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (read by Anthony Heald) is Downpour's free audiobook this month.

Use code - earthfree

Thanks for posting this - added to OP

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Synamon

You can get this cheaper if you buy the Kindle ebook from Amazon on sale right now for $2.99 (price matched to Google Play's summer deal) and then get the whispersync audiobook from Audible for another $2.99.

Thanks for pointing this out. I missed quite a few posts here since last week and am playing catch up. I've added this info to the OP

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

After a couple of months in absence, Tantor has added a free title. If you found yourself saying "huh?" to any of the Supreme Court decisions this week (BTW let's not get into a political debate here; it's the deals forum after all) then maybe you'd like to brush up on your Constisution. If so you can get "The Federalist Papers" in its entirity (that's 20 hours) here. Decide for yourself whether this week at all resembles what Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, and the rest intended.

Thanks for the heads up on this deal - added to the OP

[hwlester]

Originally Posted by Marrella

I have the same problem. There are people who just don't have IE. It's some kind of javascript, maybe it only works on Windows computers.

Pity, I would have liked the Neil Gaiman story.

I got it to work on Chrome. It automatically started playing, but if you right click anywhere on the page outside of the player, it offers a "Save as..." option. If you right ON the player, you get a "Save video as..." option which is NOT what you want.

[hwlester]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

From LearnOutLoud, here's their free audiobook for the month of June. Just found it so hurry before they replace it with July's entry.

• Greek Gods by William Smith (free) -- exp ???

Just as an FYI, apparently just for creating an account, they also give you As A Man Thinketh by James Allen for free.