FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2016

[issybird]

First I did the 2-month come back promo, then the 3-month Travelzoo promo; I cancelled over the weekend and started the 2-month Groupon promo yesterday. Now it looks as if I should be able to move to the HSN promo next.

Does anyone pay full price for credits? And it's not only the free or nearly free books; it's also having access to other member benefits. Granted I never see anything at the sales, but it's a perk for some.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by issybird

Does anyone pay full price for credits?

My wife was a regular price member for several months between her last promo and this month. We've both occasionally continued at regular price for a month or two after a promo, usually if she was anticipating a new release she wanted right away.
Hopefully with all the available free sources (not to mention these promos) we won't do that again.

ApK

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by issybird

First I did the 2-month come back promo, then the 3-month Travelzoo promo; I cancelled over the weekend and started the 2-month Groupon promo yesterday. Now it looks as if I should be able to move to the HSN promo next.

Does anyone pay full price for credits? And it's not only the free or nearly free books; it's also having access to other member benefits. Granted I never see anything at the sales, but it's a perk for some.

I'll admit I don't want to pay full price for the credits anymore

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by issybird

First I did the 2-month come back promo, then the 3-month Travelzoo promo; I cancelled over the weekend and started the 2-month Groupon promo yesterday. Now it looks as if I should be able to move to the HSN promo next.

Does anyone pay full price for credits? And it's not only the free or nearly free books; it's also having access to other member benefits. Granted I never see anything at the sales, but it's a perk for some.

I did the Travelzoo promo, stayed one full-price month when Audible offered me a $20 coupon, canceled and immediately started the come-back promo the other day. I think if I cancel that one right after the second credit arrives, I should be able to use the Groupon promo next, and then the HSN one. Very cool!

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 31 Oct

$1.99 -- After James -- Michael Helm/ Cassandra Campbell, et al --> 11.8 hrs/ R-n/a --> literary

Whispersync: Audible ($4.99) | Kindle ($9.99)

For fans of Joshua Cohen and Ben Lerner, After James captures the dystopian strangeness of our current world.

A neuroscientist walks out of her life and isolates herself in the woods, intending to blow the whistle on a pharmaceutical company and its creativity drug gone wrong. A recently orphaned graduate school dropout is hired as a “literary detective” to decode the work of a mysterious Internet poet who writes about disappearances and murders with an inexplicably precise knowledge of private details. And a virologist discovers her identity has been stolen by a conceptual artist in whose stories someone always goes missing. Ali, James, and Celia exist in worlds where implausibilities that once belonged to science fiction, ancient superstition, or dystopian visions are real or impending.

Set in great cities, remote regions, and deadly borderlands, Michael Helm’s groundbreaking novel, After James, is told in three parts, each gesturing toward a different fiction genre: the gothic horror, the detective novel, and the apocalyptic. Science and art become characters, and secrets form, hidden in the codes of genetic sequences, poems, and the patterns of political violence. Part to part, elements repeat―otherworldly weather, disturbing artwork, buried corpses―and amid these echoes, a larger mystery arises, one that joins artifice to nature and fiction to reality, delivering us into the troubling wonder of the present world.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 31 Oct

$4.95 -- Haunting of Hill House -- Shirley Jackson/ Bernadette Dunne --> 7.5 hrs/ R-3.7 --> horror

The Haunting of Hill House

Whispersync: Audible ($4.49) | Kindle ($9.99)

Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits.

Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own.

This classic horror novel has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- other Deals

• Weekly Deals (10 titles) --> exp 31 Oct
  
• Monthly Deals (45 titles) --> exp 31 Oct

[tubemonkey]

Audible Channels -- Featured Free Audiobook -- Prime Members Only

This is a new daily feature I'm adding to bring added awareness of this program.

Today's featured selection comes from the Editors' Choice channel:


FREE -- The Plantagenets -- Dan Jones/ Clive Chafer --> 20.8 hrs/ R-4.2 --> history

The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

Whispersync: Audible ($5.49) | Kindle ($14.99)

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world. We meet the captivating Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; her son, Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and King John, a tyrant who was forced to sign Magna Carta, which formed the basis of our own Bill of Rights. This is the era of chivalry, Robin Hood, and the Knights Templar, the era of the Black Death, the Black Prince, the founding of Parliament, and the Hundred Years’ War.

How do I listen to this? -- You have free streaming access to this audiobook with Audible Channels for Prime. To start listening, download the free Audible app, sign in with your Amazon account, and browse Prime Exclusive Audiobooks within the Channels tab.

Note: available for Android, iOS & Win 10 apps - Prime only - offline listening & Fire OS not allowed. There are currently 56 free audiobooks available. See this thread for further discussion.

Spoiler:

Prime Exclusive Audiobooks

Hear gifted narrators bring stories to life. Choose from a collection of best sellers, family favorites, celebrity-narrated classics and more, available for Prime members to stream anytime, anywhere at no additional cost.

Introducing the Newest Prime Benefit – Audible Channels for Prime

Members can now access episodic short-form audio programming with Audible Channels, and a rotating selection of audiobooks, free with Prime

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 13, 2016-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon and Audible today announced a new premium spoken-word benefit for Prime members in the U.S. Members now enjoy unlimited free access to the new short-form digital audio service, Audible Channels, as well as a rotating selection of more than 50 audiobooks from Audible’s catalog. Audible Channels for Prime now joins the growing list of all-you-can-eat benefits for Prime members including guaranteed unlimited fast, free shipping, unlimited access to Prime Video, Prime Music, Prime Photos, early access to Lightning Deals and more. Prime members can access Audible Channels for Prime by downloading the Audible app for iOS, Android, and Windows 10. To learn more about Audible Channels for Prime, please visit www.amazon.com/audiblechannels.

Free Audiobook Selection for Prime Members

Prime members will also be able to stream a rotating selection of more than 50 premium audiobooks, across nine Prime-exclusive channels, including:

* Top-rated audiobooks across a range of genres, such as Mary Kubica’s The Good Girl, Karl Marlantes’ What It Is Like to Go to War, Matthew Quick’s The Silver Linings Playbook, Anne Lamott’s Stitches and Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game Alive

* Celebrity-narrated classics, such as Scarlett Johansson’s performance of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Rosamund Pike’s narration of Pride and Prejudice, and a full-cast recording of Dracula, starring Alan Cumming

* Shared listening experiences for the family, including Clifford the Big Red Dog, Winnie-the-Pooh, and The Velveteen Rabbit

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[badgoodDeb]

Darn!! That's a topic I would really enjoy. But I have absolutely NO interest in streaming books. Audio book time for me, is when doing a cross country drive. So -- no go on this book.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Darn!! That's a topic I would really enjoy. But I have absolutely NO interest in streaming books. Audio book time for me, is when doing a cross country drive. So -- no go on this book.

See the deals thread for some Audible promos, and maybe you can get it free that way.

[rjcchan]

so how do you go about getting the hsnaudio promo? I just ended up purchasing a credit because i never got to a page where i could enter the code.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by rjcchan

so how do you go about getting the hsnaudio promo? I just ended up purchasing a credit because i never got to a page where i could enter the code.

What do you mean by "purchasing a credit"? Did you sign up for a paid membership or were you already a paid member?

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by rjcchan

so how do you go about getting the hsnaudio promo? I just ended up purchasing a credit because i never got to a page where i could enter the code.

I had the same problem and in the end I aborted signing up on Audible when already signed in and used the link on the first page of this thread. If you ring Audible and explain I'm sure they can help in some way.

[rjcchan]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

What do you mean by "purchasing a credit"? Did you sign up for a paid membership or were you already a paid member?

Have an account that had been cancelled a couple months ago. Ended up re-upping for a paid membership. Never got to a checkout page where I could enter a code.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by rjcchan

Have an account that had been cancelled a couple months ago. Ended up re-upping for a paid membership. Never got to a checkout page where I could enter a code.

OK, like Josieb1 said, call Audible: 1-888-283-5051 and explain it to them. The code you want is HSNAUDIBLE and this is the web page.

Let us know if you are still having problems after contacting Audible.