FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2015

[tubemonkey]

Buying Strategies for Audible's "Buy 4, Get $10" Promos

Twice a year (Apr & Nov), Audible runs a "Listening Rewards Month - Buy 4, Get $10" promo. The next sale should be here in less than two weeks. These sales are open to anyone with an Audible account. A paid membership is not required.

This is from the Apr 2015 sale:

Buy 4 books by April 30th with a regular price of $14.95 or more and you'll earn a $10 Listening Reward coupon.*

The key thing to remember is that any audiobook you buy must have a regular price of $14.95 or more. It doesn't matter what you paid for it, just as long as the regular price is $14.95 or more.

Below, are some of the sources you can use to get the $10 credit at the lowest price possible. In the past, I've been able to get the credit for prices ranging from free to $1.98 and higher as I exhaust all of the lower priced deals.

Don't buy the free Dracula Whispersync pair yet. Wait until the Buy 4 sale kicks in on 01 Nov and then get it. That will get you your first qualifying audiobook for free. It qualifies because its regular price is $29.95. The fact that you can get it for free is irrelevant.

Whispersync Pricing --> Whispersync Thread

• Free This Month --> free Dracula ebook + free Dracula audiobook
• $0.99 Classics --> free ebooks + $0.99 audiobooks (100 titles)
• Kindle eBooks --> low priced ebooks + low priced audiobooks
• Kindle First --> free ebooks + low priced audiobooks
• Kindle for Samsung --> free ebooks + low priced audiobooks
• Kindle Unlimited --> free ebooks + low priced audiobooks
• Public Libraries --> free library ebooks + low priced audiobooks

Non-Whispersync Pricing

• Audible Daily Deal
• Audible Credits
• Audible 30% Member Discount

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[rjcchan]

do you have to be a credit member to get offered this deal?

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by rjcchan

do you have to be a credit member to get offered this deal?

No; these sales are open to anyone with an Audible account. A paid membership is not required.

Thanks for bringing this up. I added this info to the post.
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[Catlady]

I've been stockpiling credits just to use in November!

[melmac]

Originally Posted by Catlady

I've been stockpiling credits just to use in November!

Me too feels Ike I've been waiting for it to arrive for ages

[skinmaan]

Upcoming freebie alert! From the Penguin Random House e-mail newsletter:

On October 28th starting at 10:30AM, for 24 hours we’re giving away a free audio download of “The Flicker, the Fingers, the Beat, the Sigh,” a short story from Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by April Genevieve Tucholke. Visit our Facebook page or our Volumes app on that day to access the download.

6 days and counting. I (or one of my esteemed colleagues) will post a reminder when the day comes.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Upcoming freebie alert! From the Penguin Random House e-mail newsletter:

6 days and counting. I (or one of my esteemed colleagues) will post a reminder when the day comes.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Thanks, I'll add it to the OP

[tubemonkey]

Halloween Offers 2015

I created a Halloween section in the OP (near the top) to link back to this post. Last year, there were quite a few freebies and sales going on. As Halloween approaches, expect more offers to drop.

Halloween Offers 2015 --> archives

• FREE -- Audible --> Dracula -- exp unknown --> details
• FREE -- PenRan --> Flicker, Fingers, Beat, Sigh -- exp unknown --> details / details
  
• FREE -- Audible --> Locke & Key -- exp 04 Nov --> details
  

Other Offers

• FREE -- Big Finish --> Dark Shadows: Snowflake --> details
• FREE -- Big Finish --> Dorian Gray: Trick or Treat --> details
• FREE -- Sparkle --> Halloween Stories (2 titles) --> details

Public Domain

• FREE -- Learn --> Book of Halloween --> details
• FREE -- LibriVox --> Carmilla --> details
• FREE -- YouTube --> Horror & Halloween Audiobooks (26 titles) -- details
• FREE -- Archive --> War of the Worlds -- 1938 radio broadcast --> details

Expired Offers

• FREE -- Audible --> Carmilla -- exp unknown --> details
• FREE -- Tantor --> Frankenstein -- exp 31 Oct --> details

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[GtrsRGr8]

I haven't read or listened to this book, or any other on the subject that I remember. But I did see a fascinating documentary about it, a few years ago, on television in which the task in World War II was recreated in these modern times (sans the actual destruction of any real dams. ha).

What seems easy in theory--drop a bomb over a reservoir from an airplane, having it bounce off the water in such a way that it will strike the dam, causing it to be breached--was actually very difficult to pull off computationally and operationally. Nevertheless, the Brits accomplished that at more than one German reservoir.

Having stellar reviews on both the book and audiobook, I'm sure that this Whispersync deal will relate the events under consideration quite well and provide great listening and/or reading enjoyment.

Title: Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Military History).
Author(s): James Holland.
Price: $6.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $4.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $21.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.5 stars/62 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.5/79 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 464/14 hours and 8 minutes.
Narrator(s): John Lee.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/History/Da...5673578&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Dam-Busters-In...The+True+Story.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
The night of 16 May, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reich's war machine.

From the outset it was an almost impossible task, a suicide mission: to fly low and at night in formation over many miles of enemy-occupied territory at the very limit of the Lancasters' capacity, and drop a new weapon that had never been tried operationally before from a precise height of just sixty feet from the water at some of the most heavily defended targets in Germany.

More than that, the entire operation had to be put together in less than ten weeks. When visionary aviation engineer Barnes Wallis's concept of the bouncing bomb was green lighted, he hadn't even drawn up his plans for the weapon that was to smash the dams. What followed was an incredible race against time, which, despite numerous setbacks and against huge odds, became one of the most successful and game-changing bombing raids of all time.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Tubemonkey:

I just ran across this guy (http://www.pavilionbooks.com/wp-cont...ve-pattern.pdf). He reminded me so much of you that I felt that I just had to share it with you.

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

...I see he's an Olympian just like me. One day, remind me to tell you about all of the medals I won competing at the Nanalympics.

Once again, I ran across, on the Web, things that reminded me of you, tubemonkey.

Here are the most rent ones
Knit London: Big Ben.

Knit New York: Hot Dog.

[skinmaan]

Finally! - a Halloween audiobook worth reporting. How about a full-cast version of Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla?" Scary. What if I told you it features David Tennant? Scary good! For now, at least, you can get it for free here. I don't know how long it will last, so don't delay.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[ApK]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Finally! - a Halloween audiobook worth reporting. How about a full-cast version of Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla?" Scary. What if I told you it features David Tennant? Scary good! For now, at least, you can get it for free here. I don't know how long it will last, so don't delay.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

Shows up as $10.31 for me. Is there a promo code link or something?

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by ApK

Shows up as $10.31 for me. Is there a promo code link or something?

I got it through the Amazon site at this link. Once I went to Audible I already owned it so I didn't know it was a different price. I checked the transaction and I can confirm I was charged $0. Sorry for the confusion.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

I got it through the Amazon site at this link. Once I went to Audible I already owned it so I didn't know it was a different price. I checked the transaction and I can confirm I was charged $0. Sorry for the confusion.

Worked fine for me going through Amazon. Directly at Audible I got the same price quoted that ApK did.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Worked fine for me going through Amazon. Directly at Audible I got the same price quoted that ApK did.

Word of caution to those coming after: there is a possibility this is a pricing error. Please check the price before you hit the buy button. If they do change the price on you and you miss it, you can always request a refund.