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SYNC Audio 2020 FAQs

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Sora App Setup --> details

Does SYNC have DRM? -- YES

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  Can I access the audiobook’s MP3 files?
  
  No, you need to download and listen to the audiobooks entirely in the Sora app. There’s no option to download separate MP3 files.

  SYNC books are no longer DRM-Free
  
  Your books can only be played on devices capable of downloading the Sora app. Once added to your library, you'll have access to your books indefinitely. If you're using multiple devices, you only need to add the books to one device. They will automatically appear on other devices once you refresh the app.
  
  If you wish to download your books to non-Sora devices, you must break DRM. Remember, MobileRead Policy does not allow discussing those procedures (Google is your friend).

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What is SYNC?

Sora App Help

Updates --> details | details | details

Weekly Offers (26 titles) -- 30 Apr ~ 29 Jul (13 wks) --> details

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Can I use the Libby app? the OverDrive app? -- NO

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  In 2020, the SYNC program will only work with Sora, the student reading app from OverDrive. You don’t need to be affiliated with a school to use Sora with the SYNC program.
  
  First register for SYNC 2020 on our homepage. Then set up Sora.
  
  How do I set up Sora?
  
  1. Download Sora from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
  2. Open Sora and tap I have a setup code (at the bottom of the screen).
  3. Enter this setup code: audiobooksync.
  4. Enter the email address you used to sign up for SYNC.
  5. Tap Explore (at the bottom of the screen) to see the week’s featured titles [SYNC 2020 starts April 30]
  
  I already use Sora for school. How do I add SYNC titles?
  
  If you already use Sora, you’ll need to add the SYNC program’s library. Here are the steps:
  
  1. In Sora, open the menu (in the top-right corner).
  2. Select Add a public library.
  3. Search for audiobooksync and select the library from the results.

When does each SYNC week start? -- Thursday

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  The SYNC week starts Thursday at midnight (ET) and lasts until the following Wednesday at 11:59:59 pm (ET).

How long is each audiobook available in Sora? -- 7 Days

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  Each audiobook is available to borrow for one week. Once you’ve borrowed an audiobook, it stays on your Shelf in Sora.

I missed last week's audiobooks. Can I still get them? -- NO

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  No, per our agreement with the publishers, audiobooks are only available during their featured week.
  
  If you miss an audiobook, we suggest borrowing it from your local library or visiting the title’s page on the SYNC website for purchasing options.

Can I give copies of my books away? -- NO

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  SYNC audiobooks are for your personal use only and may not be distributed to others. Please encourage students/patrons to sign up for the SYNC program and download their own copies.

Can I delete the titles from my device? -- YES, but do so with extreme caution

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  Yes, you can delete the downloaded audiobook files in Sora if you need to free up space on your device. If you delete the files, the title will stay on your Shelf, and you’ll be able to download and access it again.
  
  To delete a downloaded audiobook’s files, tap the checkmark next to the title on your Shelf. Then, select Stream (when online).
  
  If you RETURN an audiobook, it will be completely removed from your account in Sora and you’ll lose access to it once its SYNC availability period is over. We don’t recommend doing this!

​Can I access the audiobook’s MP3 files? -- NO

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  No, you need to download and listen to the audiobooks entirely in the Sora app. There’s no option to download separate MP3 files.

Do any of these books have Geo-Restrictions? -- NO

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  Listeners Outside the US
  
  In years past we have had some rights-restricted titles that were unavailable in parts of the world. This year we are very pleased to say that ALL SYNC titles are available worldwide. If you encounter any issues please email us at synchelp@audiofilemagazine.com

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Archives - previous years

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  • SYNC Audio 2020 --- 13 weeks / 26 titles --- 30 Apr ~ 29 July 2020
    
  • SYNC Audio 2019 --- 14 weeks / 28 titles --- 25 Apr ~ 01 Aug 2019
    
  • SYNC Audio 2018 --- 13 weeks / 26 titles --- 26 Apr ~ 25 July 2018
    
  • SYNC Audio 2017 --- 16 weeks / 32 titles --- 27 Apr ~ 16 Aug 2017
    
  • SYNC Audio 2016 --- 15 weeks / 30 titles --- 05 May ~ 17 Aug 2016
    
  • SYNC Audio 2015 --- 14 weeks / 28 titles --- 07 May ~ 12 Aug 2015
    
  • SYNC Audio 2014 --- 13 weeks / 26 titles --- 15 May ~ 13 Aug 2014
    
  • SYNC Audio 2013 --- 12 weeks / 24 titles --- 30 May ~ 21 Aug 2013
    
  • SYNC Audio 2012 --- 10 weeks / 20 titles --- 14 Jun ~ 29 Aug 2012
    
  • SYNC Audio 2011 --- 08 weeks / 16 titles --- 23 Jun ~ 17 Aug 2011
    
  • SYNC Audio 2010 --- 08 weeks / 16 titles --- 01 July ~ 01 Sep 2010 --> 1st yr

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Audiobooks.org --> moved to Free Audiobooks
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Naxos AudioBooks --> updated 03 Oct 2016


Free Audiobooks (3 titles)

• FREE -- Call of the Wild
• FREE -- Northanger Abbey
• FREE -- Famous People in History, v1

FREE -- Novels of Charles Dickens Podcasts (17 titles) --> details

1. A Christmas Carol -- 30 min
2. A Tale of Two Cities -- 25 min
3. Barnaby Rudge -- 30 min
4. Bleak House -- 28 min
5. David Copperfield -- 28 min
6. Dombey and Son -- 24 min
7. Great Expectations -- 14 min
8. Hard Times -- 25 min
9. Little Dorrit -- 32 min
10. Martin Chuzzlewit -- 25 min
11. Nicholas Nickleby -- 39 min
12. Oliver Twist -- 27 min
13. Our Mutual Friend -- 35 min
14. Sketches by Boz -- 28 min
15. The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- 12 min
16. The Old Curiosity Shop -- 20 min
17. The Pickwick Papers -- 29 min
18. Entire Podcast Package -- 7.9 hrs

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Books In Motion --> updated 22 Jul 2019


Posts --> details | details


Free Audiobooks (>4 hrs)

1. Beta Testers --> details
   
2. Christmas Star and Chrysanthemum
   
3. The Team From Hell

Free Audiobooks (1~2 hrs)

1. Dark Edge
   
2. Follow Your Star
   
3. Silent Night in a Foxhole
   
4. The Expedition Begins
   
5. The Gun Also Rises
   
6. Treasure of Sorat

Free Audiobooks (<1 hr)

1. A Pinch of Dust
   
2. A Promise Kept
   
3. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
   
4. Holiday Surprise
   
5. Maddie O'Brien's Christmas Donkeys
6. Miracle at Joe's Diner
   
7. One Special Teacher
   
8. Prisoners of Wake Island
   
9. Stranger Riding
   
10. The Christmas Assignment
    
11. The Duplicity of Hargraves
    
12. The Guardian
    
13. The Letters
    
14. The Ninth Man
    
15. Upon a Midday Clear

No Longer Free

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  1. Father & I Were Ranchers
     
  2. King of the Mountain
     
  3. One Perfect Shot
     
  4. Pawn of Prophecy
     
  5. Tenderfoot, The Way of the West
     
  6. To Ride a Tall Horse

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Paid Whispersync Archives --> updated 01 May 2016

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Monthly Whispersync Deals

• May 2016 --> details
• Apr 2016 --> details
• Mar 2016 --> details

Misc Whispersync Deals

• May 2016 --> details
• Apr 2016 --> details

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KF/KS Whispersync Archives --> updated 01 Jun 2016


Kindle First --> details -- No Longer Tracking -- tm

• Jun 2016 --> details / will be released on 01 Jul
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Penguin Random House Audio --> updated 01 Mar 2019

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Previous Years

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Free Subscription Trial Offers --> updated 21 May 2016

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Here's a current listing of free trial offers from various subscription plans. If you find offers that are no longer valid or know of offers that I haven't listed, please let me know and I'll make the necessary changes. Thanks

Note: even though an offer says it's for new members only and you've already had a trial offer before, try to get it anyway. Many times you'll be able to get it again.

Membership Plans

• 8 offers -- Audible --> details
• 2 offers -- Audiobooks.com --> details
• 1 offer --- ChristianAudio --> details
• 2 offers -- Downpour --> details

Rental Plans

• 0 offers -- Downpour --> details
• 1 offer --- Kin Unlim --> details
• 1 offer --- Scribd --> details
• 1 offer --- Skybrite --> details
• 1 offer --- TuneIn --> details

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GraphicAudio --> updated 10 Sep 2019


Free Audiobooks (2 titles)

• This Cleansing Fire (series) --> details
  
• The Last Ride --> details
  
• Originally Human (series) --> details
  
• Unmasked (series) --> details

GraphicAudio®…A Movie in Your Mind® is an award-winning audiobook entertainment imprint of The Cutting Corporation (1971) based out of Rockville, Maryland. Since its inception in 2004, GraphicAudio® has published over 1500 titles and more than 150 different series in a wide variety of popular genres. All titles are produced in the unique and vivid GraphicAudio® A Movie in Your Mind® audiobook entertainment format, featuring book-length full cast dramatizations richly scored with cinematic music and layered with immersive sound effects and design. We are a small independent American publishing imprint in Maryland with amazing people who put a lot of creative energy into making quality entertainment!

Publisher's Weekly says "GraphicAudio delivers an action and sound effect loaded audiobook that lives up to its tagline, A Movie In Your Mind." Audiofile Magazine says "GraphicAudio sets the gold standard for full-cast dramatizations, and new listeners will become instant fans."

Format -- Order High Quality Digital Formats such as Listen with Access App Only (Apple iOS & Android), MP3 Zip Download and Listen With Access App, M4B Zip Download and Listen With Access App, FLAC Zip Download and Listen With Access App, Audio CDs, MP3-CDs and Series Sets with a Credit Card or Paypal.

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Listen to Genius --> updated 27 Jun 2016

Posts --> details

Free Audiobooks (100+ titles)

• Fables
• Poetry
• Short Stories

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ThoughtAudio -- moved to Free Audiobooks
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Wired for Books -- updated 05 Apr 2020 -- CLOSED

In June 2016, due to changes in staffing and resources for the management of wiredforbooks.org, the Don Swaim files were provided to Alden Library at Ohio University (where the original master tapes are held) - and the website went dark. The URL has been picked up by another organization.

Here's another source for several dramatized audio productions of classic literature and hundreds of author interviews. The audiobooks are unabridged full cast audio performances. The Kids' Corner features selected stories from the Brothers Grimm, O Henry, Rudyard Kipling, and Beatrix Potter.

Wired for Books is an online educational project of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. The website features author interviews, dramatic audio productions of classic literature, readings of poetry, short stories, lectures, essays, and children's literature.

Nearly 700 uncut audio author interviews conducted by Don Swaim for his "Book Beat" show on CBS Radio are available at Wired for Books in their entirety. Original unabridged audio productions of The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol, and The Tragedy of Macbeth can be found at Wired for Books in streaming media. Poets, essayists, and fiction writers read their works, often with commentary. Kids' Corner, the children's section of Wired for Books, features the stories of Beatrix Potter and other classic stories for children.

Free Dramatized Audiobooks (20+ titles) --> details

• A Christmas Carol -- Charles Dickens
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll
• Macbeth -- William Shakespeare
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz -- L Frank Baum

Author Interviews by Don Swaim

For many years, most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show. Wired for Books is proud to make these important oral documents publicly available for the first time in their entirety. Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Visit the Wired for Books Don Swaim Page.

Selected Interviews (~700 interviews)

• Isaac Asimov --> Oct 1987 (25 min)
• Ray Bradbury --> May 1992 (47 min)

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NoiseTrade --> updated 27 Jun 2016

Posts --> details

Free Audiobooks (20+ titles)

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Black Friday in July (formerly Prime Day)

• Blk Fri July 2024 --- pending
  
  
• Prime Oct. 2023 --- 10~11 Oct (48 hrs) --- from now on, included in Black Friday
  
• Prime Day 2023 --- 11~12 Jul (48 hrs)
  
• Prime Oct. 2022 --- 11~12 Oct (48 hrs)
  
• Prime Day 2022 --- 12~13 Jul (48 hrs)
  
• Prime Day 2021 --- 21~22 Jun (48 hrs)
  
• Prime Day 2020 --- 13~14 Oct (48 hrs)
  
• Prime Day 2019 --- 15~16 Jul (48 hrs)
  
• Prime Day 2018 --- 16~17 Jul (36 hrs)
  
• Prime Day 2017 --- 10~11 Jul (30 hrs)
  
• Prime Day 2016 --- 12~12 Jul (24 hrs)
  
• Prime Day 2015 --- 15~15 Jul (24 hrs)

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Audible Channels -- Prime Exclusive Audiobooks --> updated 30 Oct 2016

Program Discontinued

Amazon | Audible | Thread

Featured Free Audiobooks

• 25 Oct -- The Plantagenets --> details
  
• 26 Oct -- Ender's Game Alive --> details
  
• 27 Oct -- Goodbye, Darkness --> details
  
• 28 Oct -- Psycho --> details
  
• 29 Oct -- Dracula --> details
  
• 30 Oct -- Jaws --> details

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.

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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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Prime Exclusive Audiobooks (56 titles) --> updated 13 Sep 2016

• Better Than The Movie
  • The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
  • Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
  • Jaws by Peter Benchley
  • The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Carol - The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
• You & Improved
  • No Excuses! by Brian Tracy
  • Stitches by Anne Lamott
  • Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business by Michael Parrish DuDell, Mark Cuban, etc.
  • The Confidence Gap by Russ Harris
  • Buddhism for Beginners by Thubten Chodron
  • Beyond Happiness by Ezra Bayda
• For All Generations
  • Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
  • Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus, Book 1 by Barbara Park
  • Magic Tree House, Book One by Mary Pope Osborne
  • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  • The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
  • Cliffoed the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
  • Nate the Great and the Lost List by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
• Celebrity Voices: Classic Stories
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (perf. by Elijah Wood)
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (pref. by Kenneth Branagh)
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker (all star cast)
  • Classic Love Poems by Edgar Poe, William Shakespeare & Elizabeth Browning (perf. by Richard Armitage)
  • The Art of War by Sun Tzu (perf. by Aidan Gillen)
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (pref. by Scarlett Johansson)
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (pref. by Rosamund Pike)
• Truly Criminal
  • Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
  • Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale
  • Columbine by Dave Cullen
  • If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer by The Goldman Family, Pablo F. Fenjves, G. Valmont Thomas, Grover Gardner
  • Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick, William L. Simon
  • Mafia Prince by Philip Leonetti
• Get Hooked: Series Starters
  • Casino Royale by Ian Flemming
  • Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer
  • Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt
  • Psycho by Robert Bloch
  • Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
  • Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton
  • Come Away with Me by Kristen Proby
• Dramatic History
  • Goodbye Darkness by William Manchester
  • Fighter Pilot by Robin Olds
  • Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
  • SEAL Team Six by Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin
  • What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes
  • A Higher Call by Adam Makos
• Worlds Away: Sci-Fi Classics
  • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
  • The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
  • The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
  • Ringworld by Larry Niven
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (full cast audioplay)
• Editors' Choice
  • Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
  • Watership Down by Richard Adams
  • The Practicing Mind by Thomas M. Sterner
  • The Plantagenets by Dan Jones
  • Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
  • The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
  • H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

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