FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 15 Dec @ 11:59 PM GMT

• TBA -- One Enchanted Evening -- Anton Du Beke --> historical

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 15 Dec @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible -----> TBA ---- Born with Teeth -- Kate Mulgrew --> NF memoir
  
• Downpour --> $2.95 -- The Silence -- Tim Lebbon --> horror
  
• eStories ----> TBA

[dandelioncottage]

For those with iDevices (at least in the US), Apple Books is giving away six free audiobooks. Classic titles, some read by well-known actors.

Open the Books app, click on Great First Listens, and you’ll see the list.

[tubemonkey]

Last Day -- Audible -- exp 16 Dec @ 5 AM ET

• $1.90 -- Groupon Promo -- 2 mo Audible for $1.90 --> details

[WestCactus]

First Friday of every month, Audible allows its members to get 2 free Audible Original books from a list of 5-6 books. But if you are vigilant, you can get most of those books for free in advance.

Here are 3 books that will be part of the selection on 4th January 2019. You can pre-order them for free right now. Of course, members only.

Atomic Marriage [audible.com] ( Contemporary)
The Last Days of August [audible.com] (Social Sciences)
Power Moves: Lessons from Davos [audible.com] (Business Leaders)

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by dandelioncottage

For those with iDevices (at least in the US), Apple Books is giving away six free audiobooks. Classic titles, some read by well-known actors.

Open the Books app, click on Great First Listens, and you’ll see the list.

Could you possibly list the titles? Frequently Audible price matches Apple sales. I'd rather get them in Audible (all my eggs in one basket, as they say) but I'll get them at iTunes if need be.

[gunbad]

Here are the titles of the six free audiobooks:

Pride and Prejudice
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Secret Garden
The Time Machine
Frankenstein
Winnie the Pooh

I know little of Apple Books app and could not find them.
Used iTunes audiobooks and went to the apple store and found the Great First Listens for the titles. I didn't download any.

[dandelioncottage]

Pride & Prejudice, narrated by Kate Beckinsale
The Time Machine, narrated by Kelsey Grammar
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, narrated by Titus Burgess
Frankenstein, narrated by Aaron Mahnke
The Secret Garden, narrated by Karen Gillian
Winnie the Pooh, Disney Book Group

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Could you possibly list the titles? Frequently Audible price matches Apple sales. I'd rather get them in Audible (all my eggs in one basket, as they say) but I'll get them at iTunes if need be.

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by dandelioncottage

Pride & Prejudice, narrated by Kate Beckinsale
The Time Machine, narrated by Kelsey Grammar
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, narrated by Titus Burgess
Frankenstein, narrated by Aaron Mahnke
The Secret Garden, narrated by Karen Gillian
Winnie the Pooh, Disney Book Group

Interesting! I cannot find any of these versions in the Audible catalog. Perhaps this is Apple's way of advertising they are now doing some exclusive audiobooks.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by dandelioncottage

For those with iDevices (at least in the US), Apple Books is giving away six free audiobooks. Classic titles, some read by well-known actors.

Open the Books app, click on Great First Listens, and you’ll see the list.

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Interesting! I cannot find any of these versions in the Audible catalog. Perhaps this is Apple's way of advertising they are now doing some exclusive audiobooks.

What I especially miss are the iTunes University classes and courses. Seems that several years ago, I could access them with my Windows machine. Now, however, I can't--or, at least, it seems that Apple has changed the way(s) that we can get to them.

I would love for someone to come up with an Apple to Android and Apple to Windows converter (I don't know if that is the technical term), Of course, I do not wish to do anything that would violate the "terms and conditions" (i.e., the fine print) that a person has to agree to in order to be able to use Apple (or perhaps Android or Windows, for that matter). I especially don't want violate any law(s).

I haven't checked the forum>subforum on MobileRead that deals with those kinds of thing; maybe there is such an animal. From "talk" here on this forum>subforum, though, it seems that such a device or software doesn't exist.

Please, if you have an answer, limit the posts to two or three, and perhaps the moderator(s) will not scold me for bringing up the off-topic aspects of this post on this forum>subforum.

[alee]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Interesting! I cannot find any of these versions in the Audible catalog. Perhaps this is Apple's way of advertising they are now doing some exclusive audiobooks.

Here is a link that opens iTunes to a page with all six audiobooks: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/...gn-itscg=99997.

All except Winnie the Pooh list Apple Inc. as the provider, have publication dates of 12/13/2018, and say they are Apple Books exclusives. The provider for Winnie the Pooh is listed as Disney Book Group. It looks like Apple doesn't want to be completely dependent on Amazon-owned Audible for their audiobooks.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 16 Dec @ 11:59 PM GMT

• TBA -- Dreams from My Father -- Barack Obama --> NF memoir

[WestCactus]

The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Free today at Amazon or Audible US

https://smile.amazon.com/Big-Store-I...=UTF8&qid=&sr=

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 16 Dec @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audible -----> TBA ---- Deep Work -- Cal Newport --> NF self-help
  
• Downpour --> $2.95 -- The Museum of Modern Love -- Heather Rose --> literary
  
• eStories ----> TBA

* Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

[skinmaan]

A couple of free self-published audiobooks are available over at Google.

• FREE -- Once Gone (a Riley Paige Mystery--Book #1) -- Blake Pierce, Blake Pierce / 7.6 hrs--> Mystery

Women are turning up dead in the rural outskirts of Virginia, killed in grotesque ways, and when the FBI is called in, they are stumped. A serial killer is out there, his frequency increasing, and they know there is only one agent good enough to crack this case: Special Agent Riley Paige.

Riley is on paid leave herself, recovering from her encounter with her last serial killer, and, fragile as she is, the FBI is reluctant to tap her brilliant mind. Yet Riley, needing to battle her own demons, comes on board, and her hunt leads her through the disturbing subculture of doll collectors, into the homes of broken families, and into the darkest canals of the killer’s mind. As Riley peels back the layers, she realizes she is up against a killer more twisted than she could have imagined. In a frantic race against time, she finds herself pushed to her limit, her job on the line, her own family in danger, and her fragile psyche collapsing.

Yet once Riley Paige takes on a case, she will not quit. It obsesses her, leading her to the darkest corners of her own mind, blurring the lines between hunter and hunted. After a series of unexpected twists, her instincts lead her to a shocking climax that even Riley could not have imagined.

• FREE -- A Trace of Death (A Keri Locke Mystery--Book #1) -- Blake Pierce, Blake Pierce / 6.7 hrs--> Mystery

Keri Locke, Missing Persons Detective in the Homicide division of the LAPD, remains haunted by the abduction of her own daughter, years before, never found. Still obsessed with finding her, Keri buries her grief the only way she knows how: by throwing herself into the cases of missing persons in Los Angeles.

A routine phone call from a worried mother of a high-schooler, only two hours missing, should be ignored. Yet something about the mother’s voice strikes a chord, and Keri decides to investigate.

What she finds shocks her. The missing daughter—of a prominent senator—was hiding secrets no one knew. When all evidence points to a runaway, Keri is ordered off the case. And yet, despite pressure from her superiors, from the media, despite all trails going cold, the brilliant and obsessed Keri refuses to let it go. She knows she has but 48 hours if she has any chance of bringing this girl back alive.

A dark psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, A TRACE OF DEATH marks the debut of a riveting new series—and a beloved new character—that will leave you turning pages late into the night.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound