FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[Keslynn]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I mentioned in previous posts . . . I have an "Inactive Light" (the old "Listener Light," membership, I'm sure). I do see the Audible Daily Deals. I can see them on their homepage, plus they send me announcements by email everyday. Oh, and I have bought them successfully--quite a few of them, actually.

I suppose that if you are a complete non-member, it is different. Personally, I've found $10 a year to be well worth the money in order to get this, and access to many--not all (all sales for credit members, I think)--sales.

Anyone can get the daily deals - member or non-member. I've purchased a few when I didn't have a membership plan. It's weird that it doesn't show on the homepage for some people.

I get the email about the daily deal so it saves me from having to check the website or app every day. You can also receive that without having to have a membership plan.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by issybird

The end of the OverDrive/Whispersync deal and the colossal jump in Whispersync prices on the classics have caused me to buy far fewer audiobooks than I used to. It's not as if I shrugged my shoulders and decided to use pricey credits on these titles instead. I do without.

I have no idea what the price elasticity is on audiobooks, but $14.95 or thereabouts is a dealbreaker for me; I'd be willing to go higher than $1.99 or $2.99, but we're not even in shouting distance. Fortunately, OverDrive isn't going to run out of audiobooks any time soon.

Yeah, the end of the Overdrive/Whispersync deal was a bummer.

I don't think that the jump in Whispersync prices is limited to the classics. Perhaps you mentioned them because that is what you mainly read.

I haven't been seeing the low Whispersync audio prices that I used to either, and I don't read the classics or, for that matter, any fiction. It seems like $3.99 is the lowest price that I have seen recently on the audio portion (except for self-pubs, very short books, etc.) of a Whispersync deal. And $4.00 is about the most that I ever want to pay for an audiobook. So, unless the book has a Whispersync narration and the book is free (not unheard of, but rare), it's going to exceed my threshold price already.

If a classic (by "classic," I'm assuming that it is an old enough book that it is in the public domain) is a real popular one, it looks like there would be a free audio with high-quality narration somewhere on the Internet--maybe even . . . *gulp* . . . LibroVox. If it is an obscure title, there may be a narration around somewhere, but it will tend to be lousy. For example, when I wanted a narration of the apocryphal Acts of Peter, fairly recently, Librovox had one, but it was of terrible quality (IMHO). I scoured the Internet, but that is the only audio copy that I could find!

I haven't been seeing the low Whispersync audio prices that I used to either, and I don't read the classics or, for that matter, any fiction. It seems like $3.99 is the lowest price that I have seen recently on the audio portion (except for self-pubs, very short books, etc.) of a Whispersync deal. And $4.00 is about the most that I ever want to pay for an audiobook. So, unless the book has a Whispersync narration and the book is free (not unheard of, but rare), it's going to exceed my threshold price already.

To all MobileReaders--enjoy and be thankful for other good deals that you've been enjoying, because they may not be around forever. I know that when the Overdrive/Whispersync deal was in place, I didn't appreciate it like I should and, more significantly, I didn't take advantage of it like I should have.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Yes, thanks, that's fine on my PC, but my habit has been to use my Fire tablet, checking the Audible store. And there they've suddenly eliminated the little rotating box where I could immediately click on the Daily Deal. Now I see the same ad urging me to rejoin as I'd been seeing on my PC since ending my membership. They're making me jump through more hoops to get to what I want.

I just don't get it. Audible seems to have made a series of changes that all result in making me less likely to purchase. Do they think that will encourage me to rejoin instead? It won't.

Originally Posted by Keslynn

Anyone can get the daily deals - member or non-member. I've purchased a few when I didn't have a membership plan. It's weird that it doesn't show on the homepage for some people.

I get the email about the daily deal so it saves me from having to check the website or app every day. You can also receive that without having to have a membership plan.

Catlady, what happens when you click on one of tubemonkey's links for a Daily Deal?

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 13 Jun

• £1.99 -- Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England -- Ian Mortimer --> history

* The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Shouldn't that book be categorized as "sci fi"? ha

Anybody remember the old Time Tunnel TV show? It was on in the mid 60's or so. I thought that that show was awesome. It may be what sparked my interest in history. And for some reason, I've never seen it in syndication.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Catlady, what happens when you click on one of tubemonkey's links for a Daily Deal?

Oh, I can see it fine; my annoyance now is with the Audible store when I use my Fire tablet--the Daily Deal is not shown on the home page anymore, which is silly. Sure, I can open a browser, go to Audible, do a search, find the deal--but that takes longer than opening the Audible store and clicking through. They've added extra steps, for no reason that I can discern, unless they think annoying potential customers is a good idea.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

It just occurred to me that 'monkey might have this on the O.P. If so, I apologize for the repeat. Of course, he may have the information buried under a dozen layers of links, where no one can find it, and even the search engine can't find it. But I don't. ha

Yep, buried it in plain sight

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Oh, I can see it fine; my annoyance now is with the Audible store when I use my Fire tablet--the Daily Deal is not shown on the home page anymore, which is silly. Sure, I can open a browser, go to Audible, do a search, find the deal--but that takes longer than opening the Audible store and clicking through. They've added extra steps, for no reason that I can discern, unless they think annoying potential customers is a good idea.

Then you should fire your tablet. ha

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Yep, buried it in plain sight

Sneaky, very sneaky.

Bury it under gazillions of links a few times, get people used to it. Then, put it right in plain sight, where no one expects it anymore, and they still can't find it.

You are one sadistic monkey. ha

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 15 Jun

• £2.99 -- Revelation Space -- Alastair Reynolds --> sci-fi

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 15 Jun

• Audible ---> $2.95 -- Duplicity -- Sibel Hodge --> thriller
  
• BN Nook --> $3.99 -- The Lightless Sky -- Gulwali Passarlay --> memoir

[tubemonkey]

Sync Audio -- Weekly Offers -- FAQs & Help -- exp 22 Jun @ 7 AM ET

During Week 8 of AudiobookSYNC, our pair of free audiobooks features American cultural history that may be new to many listeners. Both come from insiders, rather than providing viewpoints from outside the cultures they portray.

FREE -- The Souls of Black Folk -- WEB Du Bois/ M Willis --> 8.5 hrs --> social

A cornerstone of African-American literary history, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work by W. E. B. Du Bois. Originally published in 1903, it contains many essays on race and equality, but is also a piece of seminal history as laying the groundwork for the field of sociology. Some of the essays in the novel were even previously published by the Atlantic Monthly magazine. When writing, Du Bois drew from his personal experiences as an African-American in America to highlight the issues of prejudice that were still going on into the 20th century.

FREE -- The Red Umbrella -- C Gonzalez/ K Garcia --> 7.2 hrs --> cultural

US and Canada ONLY

The Red Umbrella is a moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan—an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro's revolution.

In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town, everything begins to change. Freedoms are stripped away. Neighbors disappear. And soon, Lucía's parents make the heart-wrenching decision to send her and her little brother to the United States—on their own.

Suddenly plunked down in Nebraska with well-meaning strangers, Lucía struggles to adapt to a new country, a new language, a new way of life. But what of her old life? Will she ever see her home or her parents again? And if she does, will she still be the same girl?

The Red Umbrella is a touching story of country, culture, family, and the true meaning of home.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Daily Deals -- exp 15 Jun

• Audible ---> $2.95 -- Duplicity -- Sibel Hodge --> thriller

I listened to this recently--it's a KU book and I bought the Audible version for $1.99. I liked it, for the most part; it's another in the vast collection of competently written, twisty Lifetime movie-type books that are fine for whiling away a few hours. It does have a few disturbing scenes of animal abuse--I'm very sensitive to that, but it's not over the top.

[tubemonkey]

Libro.fm Sale -- exp 30 Jun

Audiobook Month - Great Books on Sale

June is audiobook month and to celebrate, we have some great audiobooks on sale - get listening today!

[tubemonkey]

Audiobooks.com -- June Is Audiobook Month -- exp 16 Jun @ 9am ET

• FREE -- Weddiculous -- Jamie Lee, et al/ Jamie Lee --> 6.6 hrs --> memoir

Weddiculous: An Unfiltered Guide to Being a Bride

In this irreverent wedding guide, MTV's wedding planning guru and star of Girl Code, comedian and bride-to-be Jamie Lee, offers practical advice and hilarious insights on how to stay sane while planning your "big day."

Weddings. What was once a beautiful celebration of a couple coming together for a lifetime of happiness has become a bit ridiculous, complete with the whimsical monogrammed mason jars and unconventional photo shoots. The Epic task of creating that special event can be nightmarish, a dizzying maze of minutiae and seemingly endless choices that might tempt you to say yes to a quickie drive-through chapel in Vegas.

But weddings don't have to be stressful. You don't have to give in to the crazy or give up completely. Famous funny gal Jamie Lee learned much more than she counted on pulling together her own wedding, and in Weddiculous she shares her first-hand experiences and hilarious hard-won insights with every girl who just said "yes."

Jamie gives you the real low-down, puts the madness into perspective, and walks you through the process step by step in a calm, realistic, and highly entertaining way. Weddiculous includes helpful checklists, timelines, and suggestions on everything from what questions to ask vendors to how to handle difficult bridesmaids to what's worth the extra cost (and more importantly, what's not). Throughout, Jamie provides guidance on when you should trust your gut and when you need to listen to others.

What Amy Sedaris has done for hospitality and crafting, Jamie Lee now does for weddings. Weddiculous will help remind you what's really important about your wedding day: it's just the first day in a long and happy marriage.

[SleepyBob]

Originally Posted by nancy-mo

Could someone check to see if "America and the World: A Diplomatic History" is included? Thanks!

Yes, it's there.