FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by tempest@de

I received an email from Libro with an offer for new memberships, here is the link

Thanks for posting this

An alternative offer for those who only want free (that's me) is their ongoing free 1 month trial. Be sure to cancel before the month is up or you'll be charged $14.99 for the following month.

[tubemonkey]

Alexa/Audible Interactive Audiobooks


Choose Your Own Adventure (5 books)

• FREE -- Journey Under the Sea
  
• FREE -- Mystery of the Maya
  
• FREE -- Space and Beyond
  
• FREE -- The Abominable Snowman
  
• FREE -- The Magic of the Unicorn

Alexa, open Choose Your Own Adventure

Spoiler:

Explore an immersive Audible experience
The iconic book series that took millions of readers on exciting, unpredictable journeys, comes to life with this official Choose Your Own Adventure® Alexa skill. Take the lead in an interactive story that features professional narration, exceptional sound design, and danger at every turn.

You begin with the adventure, you decide your next move, you alter your own fate. Where and when it ends is up to YOU.


How do I start playing?
Just follow the step-by-step guide below to try the skill for yourself.

Alexa, open Choose Your Own Adventure
Use this command on your device to open the skill.

Snowman or Sea?
Your first decision is whether to begin with The Abominable Snowman or Journey Under the Sea. Then get ready to make some tougher calls.

Take a New Path
If your adventure ends, don't despair. Just say go back or change story to make another choice.


The Abominable Snowman
You are on a quest in the Himalayas to discover the legendary Yeti. Is it real? You must survive harsh elements and violent smugglers but can you survive an encounter with the beast?

Journey Under the Sea
The fabled city of Atlantis calls to you from the murky depths. You search, encountering shipwrecks, dangerous sea creatures, and a whole new species of people. Hold your breath!

Your Next Adventures
Stay tuned. The future may bring new journeys, new dangers, and a new decision. Will you be ready?

Choose Your Own Adventure

Spoiler:

You decide what happens next in these classic Choose Your Own Adventure stories brought to you by Audible.
In each professionally narrated story, you are the adventurer who makes the choices that decide your fate.

To help you on your journey:
Say “go back” to go back one scene if you don't like the choice you made.
Say “start over” to start your current story over from the beginning.
Say “change story” if you are ready to switch to another story.
If you need help, just ask.

Current stories available:
The Abominable Snowman
Journey Under the Sea

Features:
28 total endings in The Abominable Snowman
37 total endings in Journey Under the Sea
Progress tracking and automatic bookmarking for resuming later

[sufue]

I dropped my previous Audible membership (which was itself some sort of previous deal) a couple of days ago to try the Alexa deal, got as far as installing the Alexa app on my phone, and then got busy and forgot about it.

I just now noticed this reminder and tried it, using the Alexa app, and it worked. I now am the proud possessor of four free credits and one month to use them. So as of 3:15 pm US Pacific time on the 8th, the offer is still working, although, of course, YMMV...

@AnemicOak and @tubemonkey

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Last Day -- Audible -- exp 08 Feb

• FREE --- Alexa Offer -- 4 books for 1 month --> details
  
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[Fluribus]

Originally Posted by sufue

I dropped my previous Audible membership (which was itself some sort of previous deal) a couple of days ago to try the Alexa deal, got as far as installing the Alexa app on my phone, and then got busy and forgot about it.

I just now noticed this reminder and tried it, using the Alexa app, and it worked. I now am the proud possessor of four free credits and one month to use them. So as of 3:15 pm US Pacific time on the 8th, the offer is still working, although, of course, YMMV...

@AnemicOak and @tubemonkey

The only warning I got was that it would automatically renew at 14.95 each month. It immediately charged me 14.95 and gave me one credit.

[sufue]

Bummer - I checked mine right away and it showed up as "$0.00". And just double-checked right now - still "$0.00", so no after-the-fact charges. Alexa did tell me right up front that I would get the 4 credits and first month free, so I was glad to see that's what they did.

It is really interesting to watch on this thread how much variation there is in who can/can't/does/doesn't have success with various offers. So far, I've been pretty lucky. Only one offer has billed me when it shouldn't, and that one time I just wrote off as one bite for Audible, when overall (with the help of this thread !!!) it seems they do let me get some sort of free/low-price offer every few months. And that's enough for me, since I'm not a huge audiobook listener, just mostly for my commute.

Sympathies for your hassle, though!

Originally Posted by Fluribus

The only warning I got was that it would automatically renew at 14.95 each month. It immediately charged me 14.95 and gave me one credit.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 09 Feb @ 11:59 PM GMT

• TBA -- Throne of Glass (book 1) -- Sarah J Maas --> YA fantasy

[tubemonkey]

Uh oh, monkey forgot to post this


Daily Deals -- exp 09 Feb @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audbl --> $3.95 -- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August -- Claire North --> literary
  
• Down --> $4.95 -- Bite the Biscuit (book 1) -- Linda O Johnston --> mystery
  
• eStor --> $4.99 -- The First Confessor -- Terry Goodkind --> fantasy

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 10 Feb @ 11:59 PM GMT

• TBA -- Raise Your Vibration -- Kyle Gray --> NF spirituality

* Raise Your Vibration: 111 Practices to Increase Your Spiritual Connection

[abqkjh]

Members who gift a book to someone between now and 2/14 will get a $5 coupon.

"Offer available until February 14, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Offer available only to Audible members. Eligible customers who gift a book on Audible.com between February 10 and February 14, 2019 @ 11:59 PM PT (US) will receive a promotional code for $5 via email on or around February 21, 2019 which applies only to audio products sold on audible.com. You must redeem the coupon within 30 days of receiving the email by copying the promotional code and pasting it into https://www.audible.com/promo/redemption. This will add the coupon to your account. Coupon will expire 30 days after being added to your account. Coupons cannot be resold, transferred for value, redeemed for cash or applied to any other Audible account. Offer may not be combined with other offers and is limited to one per customer and Audible account. Audible reserves the right to modify or cancel the offer at any time. If you violate any of these terms, the offer will be invalid."

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 10 Feb @ 11:59 PM PT

• Audbl --> $3.95 -- Sense and Sensibility -- Jane Austen --> classic
  
• Down --> $4.95 -- Gut Reactions -- Simon Quellen Field --> NF health
  
• eStor --> $14.99 -- The Hellfire Club -- Jake Tapper --> thriller

* Gut Reactions: The Science of Weight Gain and Loss

[tubemonkey]

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

• TBA -- The Tiger in the Well (book 3) -- Philip Pullman --> suspense

[WestCactus]

Originally Posted by abqkjh

Members who gift a book to someone between now and 2/14 will get a $5 coupon.

"Offer available until February 14, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Offer available only to Audible members. Eligible customers who gift a book on Audible.com between February 10 and February 14, 2019 @ 11:59 PM PT (US) will receive a promotional code for $5 via email on or around February 21, 2019 which applies only to audio products sold on audible.com. You must redeem the coupon within 30 days of receiving the email by copying the promotional code and pasting it into https://www.audible.com/promo/redemption. This will add the coupon to your account. Coupon will expire 30 days after being added to your account. Coupons cannot be resold, transferred for value, redeemed for cash or applied to any other Audible account. Offer may not be combined with other offers and is limited to one per customer and Audible account. Audible reserves the right to modify or cancel the offer at any time. If you violate any of these terms, the offer will be invalid."

Doesn’t say in the term, can I gift myself and get the $5?

[abqkjh]

Originally Posted by WestCactus

Doesn’t say in the term, can I gift myself and get the $5?

I don't think it is possible to purchase a gift for "yourself" (i.e. to be "redeemed" by the same account you are using to "send" it)

I suspect you can gift it to yourself if you have more than one account though (but I can't guarantee this will work).

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by sufue

It is really interesting to watch on this thread how much variation there is in who can/can't/does/doesn't have success with various offers. So far, I've been pretty lucky. Only one offer has billed me when it shouldn't, and that one time I just wrote off as one bite for Audible, when overall (with the help of this thread !!!) it seems they do let me get some sort of free/low-price offer every few months. And that's enough for me, since I'm not a huge audiobook listener, just mostly for my commute.

I've noticed that of all of the audiobook customers on this Site, tubemonkey consistently gets better deals, and spends less money, than the rest of us.

Why, he, himself says that he has spent only $3 on audiobooks in his entire life (I think that he went on a binge a few weeks ago, though, and bought several dollars in audiobooks at one time; I was worried about him)!

He seems like a shy, unassuming, honest simian (when I think of him, I often think of Zira of The Planet of the Apes). But with the deals that he gets, I have to believe that he is actually on the take. Yes, I'm afraid that that is true.

The big audio retailers like Audible are not stupid. They realize that tubemonkey is a highly influential person--uh, hominoid--in the audiobook world. And they know that millions of people monitor this forum every single day. All that tubemonkey has to do is merely mention the title of an audiobook, and throngs of people immediately go out and snap them up (or, I should say something like "download them in a fury"). And, in return, they grease his furry little hand with audiobook deals that none of the rest of us can get. In politics, what he is doing is called "influence peddling."

Tubemonkey seems like such a nice guy (Aaargh, I did it, again; he's not a guy. But, he just seems so human sometimes!) but underneath that fur, he is devious and greedy.

I've thought of reporting him to the moderators, but then I realize that he is a moderator! Talking about corruption at the highest levels!

I truly hate to be the herald of this sad news. We all love tubemonkey.

[issybird]

Here's a link to the Valentine's deal page, but there's no additional info there.

I never get deal emails (other than the Daily Deal and I'm not interested), even though I have that checked as an option in my profile.