FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[TrevorViking]

Originally Posted by Wasgo

So I take it that we're in an Audible promo code dry spell again? And just when I got into an incredibly long series too. Oh well, guess I'll have to pause The Dresden Files series soon.

My last free membership lapsed, so the other day I went through all the codes in the beginning of the thread. An old code/link that I know I've used at least once before worked for me again.

[Wasgo]

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

My last free membership lapsed, so the other day I went through all the codes in the beginning of the thread. An old code/link that I know I've used at least once before worked for me again.

Which one? Last one I used was NEWTRAVEL, but it looks like that one just recently completed.

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Yep, a dry spell. It took me years to complete the entire 19 book Dune series. Right now, I'm in the middle of the Foundation universe having just finished collecting the Foundation series. Next up is the Robot series and then the Empire series.

Patience, young grasshopper

I love collecting long series in the good times. I can't complain. Much.

[Ranny]

I know it's expensive but the 24 books for about £110 membership is great value

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[Wasgo]

Originally Posted by Ranny

I know it's expensive but the 24 books for about £110 membership is great value

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Unfortunately that's not the deal that Audible offers in Canada which is $229.50 USD for 24 books. That's about 190 GBP.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by Wasgo

Unfortunately that's not the deal that Audible offers in Canada which is $229.50 USD for 24 books. That's about 190 GBP.

That's what it is in the US too. So looks like the UK gets it for approx $5.65 USD (approx £4.62) a book, US and Canada it's $9.56 USD a book (approx $12.81 CAD).


I can remember what it used to cost me to buy audiobooks on CD (even used prices), and before that cassette, so they all look like bargain prices to me , but the UK sure seems to get a lot better deal. Approx $135.84 USD instead of $229.50 would be a sweet deal.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Approx $135.84 USD instead of $229.50 would be a sweet deal.

That's less than it costs for the annual Gold membership! Twice as many books for less money.

[tubemonkey]

The Brits get a fantastic deal:

UK Audible Plans

• 1 Book Monthly Membership -- £7.99/month --- 1 credit per month
• 2 Book Monthly Membership -- £14.99/month -- 2 per month
• 12 Book Annual Membership -- £69.99/year ---- 12 per year at time of enrollment
• 24 Book Annual Membership -- £109.99/year --- 24 per year at time of enrollment

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 07 Mar

• £1.99 -- The Brain -- David Eagleman --> NF science

* The Brain: The Story of You

[Ranny]

The scary bit about the 24 book deal is you can renew at any time

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[bathos]

I've had the 24 books for £110 for a couple of years now and it's a great deal. Also if I use my credits before the end of the year they repeatedly send me offers for 3 credits for £11. That's an excellent £3.66 per book. When my last credits ran out I must have added at least 30 books to my library using the extra credits.

On a bad note we don't get the same books as the US site. A lot of my favourite authors have few books out here.

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 07 Mar

• Audible ---> $2.95 -- Leave Me -- Gayle Forman --> literary
  
• BN Nook --> $3.99 -- Boy Who Harnessed Wind -- William Kamkwamba, et al --> memoir

* The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 13 Mar

$1.99 -- Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen/ Carolyn Seymour --> 11.5 hrs --> classic

The provincial Bennet family, home to five unmarried daughters, is turned upside down when a wealthy bachelor takes up a house nearby. Mr. Bingley enhances his instant popularity by hosting a ball and taking an interest in the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane. Meanwhile, Mr. Darcy, Bingley’s even wealthier friend, makes himself equally unpopular by his aloof disdain of country manners. Yet he is drawn in spite of himself to the spirited and intelligent Elizabeth Bennet, who proves to be his match in both wit and pride. Their sparkling repartee is a splendid performance of civilized sparring infused with unacknowledged romantic tension.

Pride and Prejudice delightfully captures the affectations and rivalries of class-conscious English families in an age when status and security for women hung entirely on matrimonial ambitions. Austen’s characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England. It is also the source of some of the most memorable characters ever written, from the fatuous Mr. Collins, whose proposal to Elizabeth is one of the finest comic passages in English literature, to the beloved heroine Elizabeth, whom the author herself deemed “as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print.”

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 13 Mar

$4.95 -- Murder in the Bayou -- Ethan Brown/ Traber Burns --> 6.4 hrs --> NF crime

Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?

An explosive, true-life southern gothic story, Murder in the Bayou chronicles the twists and turns of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Louisiana parish.

Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered around the murky canals and crawfish ponds of Jennings, Louisiana, a bayou town of 10,000 in the heart of the Jefferson Davis parish. Local law enforcement officials were quick to pursue a serial killer theory, opening a floodgate of media coverage, from CNN to the New York Times. Collectively the victims became known as the “Jeff Davis 8,” and their lives, their deaths, and the ongoing investigation reveals a small southern community’s most closely guarded secrets.

As Ethan Brown suggests, these homicides were not the work of a single serial killer, but the violent fallout of Jennings’ brutal sex and drug trade, a backwoods underworld hidden in plain sight. Mixing muckraking research and immersive journalism over the course of a five-year investigation, Ethan Brown reviewed thousands of pages of previously unseen homicide files to determine what happened during each victim’s final hours.

Epic in scope and intensely suspenseful, Murder in the Bayou is the story of an American town buckling under the dark forces of poverty, race, and class division—and a lightning rod for justice for the daughters it lost.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 08 Mar

• £1.99 -- Mindset -- Carol Dweck --> self help

* Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 13 Mar

$4.95 -- Murder in the Bayou -- Ethan Brown/ Traber Burns --> 6.4 hrs --> NF crime

Can we assume that this audiobook was not published by the Jennings, Louisiana/Jefferson Davis Parish Tourism Board?