FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2015

[avantman42]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Yeah, the lower case for both looks pretty good--opens things up nicely. I don't know about the blank lines from grouping things together, though.

The grouping things together is something I've got from my wife, who is a technical author. I've found I prefer it, but ultimately you can post however you wish

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by avantman42

The grouping things together is something I've got from my wife, who is a technical author. I've found I prefer it, but ultimately you can post however you wish

That's an interesting analysis (sentence #1). My experience has been mainly with the opposite--stuff like advertising copy, promotional materials, [I]et al.[I], mainly. ha. That may have affected my thinking.

I hope that you didn't feel like I was being critical. You could have the better idea. Thanks for all of your suggestions.

[abqkjh]

Audible currently has 22 Danielle Steel books on sale for $4.95 each.

http://www.audible.com/mt/Danielle-S..._rd_s=center-2

"Sale ends July 16, 2015, at 11:59 PM PT"

[badgoodDeb]

I like the lower case a lot. The white space was helpful to me too, cuz I scan first to see if I like the price, before I read much further!

But I appreciate you posting them, so you may use whatever format you like.

[GtrsRGr8]

I'm still experimenting. But I think that this is close to the final Whispersync deal template. One change that I made is to start putting the title in italics to make it stand out more from the rest of the text. Titles will continue to be bold faced. Thanks to everyone who made suggestions. I listened to all of them.

Now, about the book . . . . I needed a title to experiment with. But don't think that I lowered my posting standards--high quality, very low price--just to have a title to post! No sir. This is a great one!

Title: Scraps of Paper.
Genre: Fiction.
Author: Kathryn Meyer Griffith.
Price: $1.99 (ebook (marked down)) $0.00 + (Whispersync audio) $1.99.
Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $19.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.4 stars/161 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.70/10 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 295/7 hours and 56 minutes.
Narrator: Wendy Tremont King.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-...6830713&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Scraps-Paper-R...0WGMHNMMD5GTT7
Comments: Revised Author's Edition, aka Second Edition.

[badgoodDeb]

Thanks - easy to read; clear; concise!

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Thanks - easy to read; clear; concise!

Thanks. Your comments have been helpful and encouraging.

[melmac]

Originally Posted by issybird

I just ran across a new program at Audible called Onebook. Essentially, you get to "recommend" an audio book to someone through the Audible app and s/he gets a copy of the book for free to keep, while you also retain ownership. Only the first recommendation a person accepts is free.

The program is still in Beta.

This looks really interesting unfortunately as it's in beta they haven't rolled it out to everyone the option is not present in my App I wonder how many people have got it

[GtrsRGr8]

I'm still tweaking the template, just a little bit.

Title: Defiant Courage: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance.
Genre: Non-Fiction.
Author(s): Astrid Karlsen Scott; Tore Haug.
Price: $4.98 (ebook (marked down) $1.99 + Whispersync audio $2.99).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $24.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.4 stars/38 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.10/7 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 368/10 hours and 23 minutes.
Narrator: Peter Altschuler.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/History/De...6938888&sr=1-1
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Defiant-Courag.../dp/B004RD7TBY
Comments: None.

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

How do you do that? Do you keep an eye out for different kind of offers?

Yea, it took me a while to figure it out, but once it clicked I just put it in my calendar which kind of 'membership' i got last and try the opposite one the next time...most times it works.

[GtrsRGr8]

The Whispersync deals template is now tweaked to perfection. haha

Title: The Lance (The Project Book 2).
Genre: Fiction (Mysteries & Thrillers).
Author: Alex Lukeman.
Price: $1.99 ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $1.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $19.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.4 stars/402 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 3.90/20 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 258/7 hours and 0 minutes.
Narrator: Jack de Golia.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-...022449&sr=1-12
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Lance-Project-...7S412M3KQ4B9BX
Comments: This seems to be a popular book, based on the fact that there are 402 reviews (an especially large number considering the fact that the book has only been published for a year and a half). Also, on one list yesterday (July 15), it was ranked #6 in popularity among all free books, from any vendor.

[GtrsRGr8]

The Great Courses company is offering six lectures by renowned astrophysicist and television personality Neil deGrasse Tyson, free. The only "cost" is an inconvenience factor--you have to set up an account with them. The requirements to do that are very minimal, however.

All of the lectures come from a Great Courses course entitled "The Inexplicable Universe." The six free ones are available as audio and/or video (am I allowed to say that on this audiobooks thread? ha). All of the lectures are 30 minutes long, which is a typical length for a Great Courses course (I wish the classes of all of the courses that I took in college had been only 30 minutes long! Some of them were several hours long!)

Now, The Great Courses states that these six courses are a $94.95 value, which is probably true, if you are basing that on the full price of the course. (But, there's never a need to pay full price for one of their courses--discounts and sales abound. Furthermore, most of the time you can get them from resellers at a much cheaper price than The Great Courses offers them. If you want to know more about this, PM me; if the interest is great enough I will make a post about it.)

Some of you in the U.S. may be thinking, "I can get basically the same thing watching Tyson's shows on television." Well, The Great Courses' courses are college level, the ones on TV are not. By the way, I've bought many courses from them over the years, and almost all of them have been excellent. I'm sure that this one is, too.

Here is the webpage that you can go to to sign up or to get additional information. Oh yeah, The Great Courses is kindly offering the six free courses to those of us who are already members, too!

Unfortunately, the lectures won't present the latest, fasinating discoveries about the "dwarf planet" (whatev! G.) Pluto, as they are way too new.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

The Great Courses company is offering six lectures by renowned astrophysicist and television personality Neil deGrasse Tyson, free. The only "cost" is an inconvenience factor--you have to set up an account with them. The requirements to do that are very minimal, however.

He's a mean man. He made Pluto not a planet. Mean, mean, mean...

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

The Great Courses company is offering six lectures by renowned astrophysicist and television personality Neil deGrasse Tyson, free. The only "cost" is an inconvenience factor--you have to set up an account with them. The requirements to do that are very minimal, however.

It looks like they have disabled downloading for these "samples" on both the audio and video files. No download option on the web site or app. Guarantees I will never spend my money with them since I can't fully evaluate their system.

[silverraven]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

He's a mean man. He made Pluto not a planet. Mean, mean, mean...

Very mean! How do we know what our mother serves us now??
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine ...........
Nine what? I'm left hanging!!
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