FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[darthyoda6]

For the Audible 50% special, it's off normal price not member price.

Everything in my wishlist shows 50% off for my member account, but not my free account.

[tubemonkey]

Kindle Daily Deals (6 titles) -- exp 11 Apr

Note: the Audible books are available at this price, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebooks

• $1.99 -- Z 2134 (book 1/3) -- S Platt, D Wright/ DJ Miller --> 8.6 hrs/ R-3.8 --> sci-fi
• $1.99 -- Z 2135 (book 2/3) -- S Platt, D Wright/ DJ Miller --> 11.2 hrs/ R-4.2 --> sci-fi
• $1.99 -- Z 2136 (book 3/3) -- S Platt, D Wright/ DJ Miller --> 9.5 hrs/ R-3.9 --> sci-fi
• $1.99 -- Point of Control -- LJ Sellers/ Coleen Marlo --> 8.4 hrs/ R-3.8 --> suspense
• $1.99 -- Julie's Butterfly -- Greta Milán/ Emily Durante --> 9.8 hrs/ R-4.7 --> romance
• $12.99 -- Things You Won't Say -- S Pekkanen/ C Campbel --> 11.6 hrs/ R-4.0 --> contemp

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[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by darthyoda6

For the Audible 50% special, it's off normal price not member price.

Everything in my wishlist shows 50% off for my member account, but not my free account.

Gotcha.

What caused me to be confused is Audible's use of "regular price" instead of "member price." I thought of "regular price" as the retail (non-member) price. For example, here's what it gave for one audiobook in my wishlist:
Regular Price:$23.95 or 1 Credit
Sale Price:$13.99 or 1 Credit
Of course, $13.99 is not 50% of $23.95. The non-member price must be $27.98, because 50% of that would be $13.99.

Thanks for the explanation.

[tubemonkey]

Last Day -- Downpour -- exp 11 Apr

• $1.99 -- Rental of Week --> Lovecraft Country --> details
• $5.95 -- Deal of Week --> Dynasty: House of Caesar --> details
• SALE -- Weekly Deals (7 titles) --> details

[koland]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I can't pass them up when they're on sale,...

Here's a problem that occurs, though, because of my buying pattern: I sometimes forget that I have already bought the audiobook, and end up buying it again! There is a retailer or too that will lock me out from purchasing an audiobook a second time, or at least ask me if I really want to buy that audiobook again. But, most don't. And if I'm buying from a different retailer, well I get no warning at all, of course. In the situation where one or both are CD's, I'm going to put one on eBay one of these days. I hope that I don't find that I have three (or more!) copies of the same audiobook! Sometimes I wish that I had a photographic memory . . . .

Here's one way Calibre has (mostly) saved me from doing the same (which I used to do with paperbacks, esp. if browsing the used stores).

For audiobooks, create a blank book and fill in the title, author, etc. I usually go ahead and enter the synopsis, genre, any series info, etc. Under tags, I put "Audiobook" and a second tag for the format (Audible, MP3, etc). Then, when buying a book, I check my Calibre database first.

[nancy-mo]

The Audible 50% off looks like it covers pre-orders as well. I've successfully ordered two at half price.

[tubemonkey]

Audible Daily Deal -- exp 12 Apr @ 11:59pm ET

$2.95 -- My Year of Running Dangerously -- T Foreman/ T Foreman --> 6.5 hrs/ R-4.7 --> memoir

Whispersync: no deals at this time

As a journalist whose career spans three decades, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman has reported from the heart of war zones, riots, and natural disasters. He has interviewed serial killers and been in the line of fire. But the most terrifying moment of his life didn't occur on the job - it occurred at home, when his 18-year-old daughter asked, "How would you feel about running a marathon with me?" My Year of Running Dangerously is Foreman's journey through four half marathons, three marathons, and one 55-mile race. What started as an innocent request from his daughter quickly turned into a rekindled passion for long-distance running - for the training, the camaraderie, the defeats, and the victories. Told with honesty and humor, Foreman's account captures the universal fears of aging and failure alongside the hard-won moments of triumph, tenacity, and going further than you ever thought possible.

[tubemonkey]

Nook Daily Find -- exp 12 Apr

$3.99 -- The Graveyard Book -- Neil Gaiman/ full cast --> 8.4 hrs/ R-4.7 --> horror

Whispersync: the Audible book is $12.99, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($8.99)

Audie Award, Distinguished Achievement in Production, 2015

A brand-new full-cast audio edition of a perennial favorite - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold over one million copies. Special content in this edition includes the story behind The Graveyard Book, written and performed by Neil Gaiman.

The Graveyard Book is the winner of the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal (the only novel to ever win both awards), the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Young Adult Book, and Audiobook of the Year. This full-cast audio edition is performed by Neil Gaiman, Derek Jacobi, Robert Madge, Clare Corbett, Miriam Margolyes, Andrew Scott, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Emilia Fox, Reece Shearsmith, Lenny Henry, Elizabeth Bennett, Allan Corduner, Sean Baker, Tim Dann, Adjoa Andoh, Jenny Gannon, Dan Weyman, and Daniel Brocklebank.

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack - who has already killed Bod's family…

Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, The Graveyard Book by beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman is sure to enthrall listeners of all ages.

[tubemonkey]

Kindle Daily Deals (4 titles) -- exp 12 Apr

Note: the Audible books are available at this price, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebooks ($1~$2)

• $2.99 -- Take Down -- Fern Michaels/
• $3.49 -- Running with the Demon -- Terry Brooks/
• $3.49 -- Where All the Dead Lie -- JT Ellison/
• $3.99 -- Legacy of Kings -- Eleanor Herman/

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by koland

Here's one way Calibre has (mostly) saved me from doing the same (which I used to do with paperbacks, esp. if browsing the used stores).

For audiobooks, create a blank book and fill in the title, author, etc. I usually go ahead and enter the synopsis, genre, any series info, etc. Under tags, I put "Audiobook" and a second tag for the format (Audible, MP3, etc). Then, when buying a book, I check my Calibre database first.

Thanks for the tip. I know that I'll use it! I've been a holdout on using Calibre. I think that the reason is that I know that there will be a lot of work (=time) involved in getting all of the ebooks, especially, and audiobooks that I have now converted, if necessary, and into the database. But I know that the longer that I put it off, the worse it will be . . . .

One stopgap measure that I try to use regularly is to do a search of my email for the title. Anytime that I buy an audiobook or ebook I get a confirmation or invoice or something in my email that provides a record of the purchase. The search terms are long enough and specific enough that I don't get many hits at all, so it's not all that hard to find out if I've purchased the item.

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by abqkjh

I have never heard of these before, but today a bunch of the books came up on my listing of free Kindle books.

"All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book."

This is NOT a Whispersync deal

Check it out here. (The link list is in price order, there are additional books that aren't currently free.)

I checked. The links lead to Librivox.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 18 Apr

$1.99 -- Twisted River -- Siobhán MacDonald/ multiple --> 9.4 hrs/ R-3.9 --> thriller

Whispersync: no deals at this time

A gripping debut psychological thriller for fans of The Silent Wife and The Wicked Girls about two families in crisis and a holiday house swap gone terribly wrong.

She would never have fit as neatly into the trunk of his own car.

Limerick, Ireland; the O’Brien family’s driveway. American Oscar Harvey opens the trunk of his hosts’ car and finds the body of a woman, beaten and bloody. But let’s start at the beginning.

Kate and Mannix O’Brien live by Curragower Falls in Limerick, in a lovely house they can barely afford. Their autistic son Fergus is bullied at school, and their daughter Izzy blames herself, wishing she could protect him. Kate decides that her family needs a vacation, and she’s convinced her luck is about to change when she spots a gorgeous Manhattan apartment on a home-exchange website.

Hazel and Oscar Harvey and their two children live on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Though they seem successful and happy, Hazel has mysterious bruises, and Oscar is hiding things about his dental practice. They too need a change of pace. Hazel has always wanted her children to see her native Limerick, and the house swap offers a perfect chance to soothe two troubled marriages.

But this will be anything but a perfect vacation, and the body in the trunk is just the beginning.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 18 Apr

$4.95 -- Dark Territory -- Fred Kaplan/ M Hillgartner --> 9.0 hrs/ R-4.4 --> technology > security

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

Whispersync: no deals at this time

As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers join the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Fred Kaplan.

Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the “information warfare” squads of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House to tell this never-before-told story of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning—and, more often than people know, fighting—these wars for decades.

From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles, in fascinating detail, an unknown past that shines an unsettling light on our future.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Weekly Deals -- exp 18 Apr

Previous Titles

• $5.95 -- The Plague Dogs -- Richard Adams/ R Cosham --> 15.3 hrs/ R-3.9 --> literary
• $3.95 -- A Load of Hooey -- Bob Odenkirk/ multiple --> 2.5 hrs/ R-3.7 --> humor
• $4.99 -- The Little Red Guard -- Wenguang Huang/ A Verner --> 7.1 hrs/ R-4.0 --> memoir

New Titles

• $4.95 -- Vermilion
• $3.95 -- Caribou Island
• $4.95 -- Him with Foot in Mouth
• $5.95 -- The Wave

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[ATDrake]

X-link to the DRM-free thread for the new Humble Bundle:

Humble Audiobook Bundle R. A. Salvatore's The Demon Wars Saga which contains audiobooks and a new ebook novella for an old Del Rey published apparently original fantasy series by the popular Forgotten Realms franchise tie-in author. HB details say it contains 116 hours of listening material, and it's done in a full cast dramatized reading style with background music and sound effects.