03-27-2018, 08:36 AM | #61 | |
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I had just been wishing for such a website, although I'm with GtrsRGr8 - I suspect it will take me waaaaaay more than an hour to page through.
I wish there was a way to sort by price, to see the inexpensive ones first. I tried just adding "&sort=price-asc-rank" to the link, which works for regular e-books on Amazon, but that didn't work for this list. Sigh! If anyone knows how to get this sorted by price, please post!!! But in the meantime, thanks so much, @TrevorViking, the link is pretty awesome even without a price sort!!! Quote:
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Change of Heart by Mary Calmes (m/m romance): $5.38 Kindle + $3.49 Whispersync
All Through the Night by Connie Brockway (Regency romance): $4.99 Kindle + $1.99 Whispersync Again Kathleen Gilles Seidel (contemporary romance): $3.99 Kindle + $1.99 Whispersync The Calling of the Three by Ru Emerson (fantasy): $4.99 Kindle + $1.99 Whispersync To the Haunted Mountains by Ru Emerson (fantasy): $3.99 Kindle + $1.99 Whispersync The Art of the Sword by Ru Emerson (fantasy): $3.99 Kindle + $1.99 Whispersync Virginia Clay by Meredith Rich (romance): $2.99 Kindle + $1.99 Whispersync The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney (YA fantasy): $1.99 Kindle + $8.99 Whispersync The Fire and the Fury by Anita Mills (romance): $0.99 Kindle + $1.99 Whispersync Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind (fantasy): $7.75 Kindle + $1.99 Whispersync Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind (fantasy): $8.09 Kindle + $1.99 Whispersync The Mysterious Affair at Styles (AmazonClassics Edition) by Agatha Christie (mystery): FREE Kindle + $1.99 Whispersync (narrator James Langton) or $2.99 Whispersync (narrator Judi Pennington) |
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Whispersync Deals on Melinda Leigh's She Can Series--$3.89 or Less and $2.98 or Less.
Five of the Six Books in the Melinda Leigh She Can Series have Whispsersync deals for only $3.98 each at the present time. A sixth Book, which is a short story (of 59 pages), is only $2.98 (because the price of the ebook of it is $0.99, where it is $1.99 for the others).
The price of each ebook, by itself, is $1.99 for each of the 5 books. Now, here's something (else) interesting, and maybe will save you a little bit of money if you buy the whole set. Amazon states that if you buy all 6 books together, you will pay only $9.84 for the ebooks, saving you $1.10 (10%)--a nice, little extra discount. Since that 10% is spread out over all of the books in the series, you actually pay a little less than $3.98 (or $2.98, as the case may be) for each book, since the price of the audio portion of the WS deal stays the same (I assume). Here's the webpage at Amazon for all six of the books in the She Can Series. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-27-2018 at 05:05 PM. |
03-27-2018, 10:52 PM | #65 |
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For Prime subscribers, check out the titles available on Prime reading which have Whispersync versions. You can borrow the ebook for free, then purchase the Audible at the whispersync price.
There are currently 360 titles listed for Prime reading with audio. I found 4 titles that seemed interesting enough to pick up at $2 each. The audio prices seem to range from 1.99 to 7.49. List of Prime reading books with audios available: https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/se...bn=15195176011 Last edited by Alohamora; 03-27-2018 at 10:57 PM. |
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There are still lots of WS deals out there (but then, if even a fraction of the Kindle ebooks have WS deals on them, that still is a huge number of ebooks because there are so many ebooks, in total, that Amazon sells). But I've learned where there are some nooks and crannies to look into, that I didn't know about before. Nowadays, sorry to say, we can't go to a book's webpage and have much hope at all that an ebook will be on sale and, if it happens to have a WS narration, that it will be a low-priced WS deal, too, like we did in the old days. The median price now for WS narration on a Kindle ebook is probably either $7.49 or $12.49. Maybe that gives us the opportunity, though, to explore other authors and/or titles and find something new that we like. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-27-2018 at 11:31 PM. |
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$1.99 Audio (via a Whispersync Deal) on Toby Neal's Twisted Vine.
I searched off and on all day for some good Whispersync deals and had come up dry. I was about to hang it up for the day (it's 10:30 p.m. now). Then, this great WS deal appeared . . . .
How great of a deal is it? Buy the Kindle ebook for $0.00 (currently). Buy the Audible narration for $1.99. Then you've got yourself a WS deal. You can look at it that you get the book's audio for only $1.99! The audio is the same as what you would get at Audible. The description of Twisted Vine (Lei Crime, Book 5), by Toby Neal: Lei Texeira and Sophie Ang team up... The island of Oahu is skyscrapers and rainforests, beaches and boutiques-instead, Special Agent Lei Texeira is drawn into a shadow world connected by death and the Internet. Mysterious suicides draw Lei and her team, including tech specialist Sophie Ang, to hunt a criminal who plays with the thin gray line between right and wrong. Lei stirs up a hornet's nest on the investigation as her past reaches out in a twisted vine of old loves, new technologies and dark vendettas. It meets all of my high standards for posting--cheap price, of course; high difference between the price of the WS deal and the Audible audio by itself; great ratings; great "bang for the buck" (lots of listening time for that cheap price that I require). Check it out for yourself here. Use the same webpage to buy the deal, if you like what you see. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-29-2018 at 02:34 AM. |
03-28-2018, 11:00 PM | #68 |
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The above Book is part of a 12-Book series (Lei Crime). I checked, and there are no WS deals on other Books in the series anywhere close in price to the one above.
However--and I know that this is off topic for this thread, but it is a followup to the previous one which was on topic--Blood Orchids (Lei Crime, Book 1) (the ebook only) is currently $0.00. Yes, that means free. However, the book apparently has no Whispersync audio narration, so there is no WS deal available for it. Follow this link if you're interested in the books by themselves. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-29-2018 at 02:37 AM. |
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Get a Great Whispersync Deal on a Sci-Fi/Thriller Book for Young People.
"Young people," for the purpose of this post, are those in grade level 4 - 12; age 8 - 18, the grade levels and ages for which this ebook would be suitable, according to Amazon.
The ebook is Trapped (The Prometheus Project Book 1), by Douglas E. Richards. As noted in the title of this post, it is a sci-fi/thriller. "Trapped, and its sequels are part of the Accelerated Reader program." You/your child can get the audio of this book for only $1.98! That's the price of the WS deal, which includes both the audio and the ebook (the math: Kindle ebook $0.00 + Audible audio $1.99 = $1.98). The audio, by itself, at Audible is $14.95! I've checked, and the two other Books in The Prometheus Project do not have low-priced WS deals, as this prequel does. This ebook meets all of my demanding standards for posting; the only thing that could make it better, in my mind, is that it be a little longer than its 192 pages (for the ole "bang for the buck" thing). Description A fantastic alien city buried deep underground. What wonders -- and what dangers -- is it hiding? Ryan and Regan Resnick have just moved to the world's most boring place. But when they discover their parents are part of an ultra-secret project called Prometheus, they are plunged into a nonstop adventure: one that will be the ultimate test of their wit, courage, and determination. Soon they are under attack and facing hostile alien worlds, alien technology, and unimaginable dangers at every turn. Now, their mother is facing certain death, and they must race to solve a seemingly impossible mystery to have any hope of saving her. But if they save their mom, they will have no way to save themselves. Full disclosure: This book is a "Kindle Exclusive." Kindle Exclusives are available only at Amazon. Amazon has quietly (at least quietly to me) gone about building a huge publishing business, under its own name and also under the names of numerous imprints. From what I've seen, the quality of the ebooks that they publish themselves is "right up there" with the older, well-known publishers. In fact, I'm thinking of having Amazon publish my great American novel. Whenever I can manage to get it started, and can manage to get it written. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-29-2018 at 02:39 AM. |
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Audio for Moon Child (Vampire for Hire Series) Available for Only $2.98, via WS!
There are 14 Books in the Vampire for Hire series. This one, Book 4, Moon Child, is the only one with a great Whispersync deal.
Why should you buy a WS (ebook + audio) deal, if you just want the audio alone? It's because sometimes buying a WS deal allows you to obtain the audio--the same as you can obtain at Audible- for much less than if you bought it outright from Audible! The WS deal on this ebook is a good example. The price of the audio alone, at Audible, is $15.95. The cost of the WS deal is $2.98. Savings--$12.97 ($15.95 - $2.98). As you might surmise, if you weren't already familiar with this long series, Vampire for Hire is about the paranormal. The ebook meets all of my high standards for quality. The only thing that would make it better, in my eyes, is more pages (it's 222 now), in order to give (even) bigger "bang for the buck" in listening and reading. But I can be greedy at times. https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Child-Va...dp/1546858296/. Full disclosure: This ebook is in the Kindle Unlimited program. I know that you can borrow this ebook and read it (indefinitely?) if you have KU, but do you get to listen to the audio? If so, can you listen to it indefinitely? Someone else will need to answer that, because I dunno. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-29-2018 at 11:49 PM. |
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Get the Audio (and Ebook) of Arthur C. Clarke's The Sands of Mars for Less than $4!
The ratings on this ebook are marginal for posting, by my standards. It has a 4.1-star rating, from 72 ratings at Amazon, and a 3.72 average rating, from 2,674 ratings from the more critical raters at GoodReads.
But the author is no ordinary author, and the book is no ordinary book. Even this confirmed non-fictionist readily recognizes the name of the author, "Arthur C. Clarke." And the book The Sands of Mars, is Clarke's first published full-length science fiction novel. The price for the Whispersync deal is only $3.98. Imagine that: getting the audio and ebook of this modern-day classic for less than $4! Find out much more about the ebook and the WS deal by following this link. This ebook is apparently the only one with a WS deal in the publisher's, Rosetta Books', Arthur C. Clarke Collection. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-30-2018 at 10:35 PM. |
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New Round of Kindle Exclusives--New Round of Possible Absurdly Cheap WS Deals.
Kindle sent me a notification, as they do every week about this time, of a new round of "Kindle Exclusives." If you've been a purchaser of Kindle books for a while, you may wish to skip the next two paragraphs; if you're a newbie, listen up.
Amazon and Audible create these things called "Whispersync deals;" they're mentioned on the webpages of the Kindle ebooks that have them. In short: you buy the ebook, and you can get the corresponding audiobook cheaper than you would by buying the audio by itself. Kindle Exclusives (ebooks published by Amazon or one of its many imprints) generally have less expensive ebooks, to begin with, than non-Kindle Exclusives and, therefore, offer a greater likelihood of better WS deals. But when a Kindle Exclusive ebook, that has a WS deal for it, is marked down, the net price for the audio can become absurdly cheap. This link is for my own custom search for only those ebooks which have WS audio narration and 4-star or above ratings, and they are sorted by price from low to high. But you don't need me--here's the "new" round of all of the Kindle Exclusive deals (I put "new" in quotation marks, because there are a lot of repeats). Amazon will let you search and sort these in a myriad of ways. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 04-01-2018 at 02:03 AM. |
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Amazon Whispersync -- Kindle for Samsung -- exp 30 Apr
All four selections for April have Whispersync pairs. For those with Samsung devices, your first Kindle selection is free (1st Kindle price) and the remaining selections are $1.99 or less (2nd Kindle price). Purchases must be made from a Samsung device to qualify for this pricing. For those without Samsung devices, the Kindle books are the current selling price (3rd Kindle price). After purchasing the ebooks, the audiobooks are available for $1.99 each. See this post for additional details and discussions about this month's ebook selections. For those with Kindle Unlimited and/or Prime Reading, some of the selections may have Whispersync pairs. After borrowing the "free" ebooks, the audiobooks are available for $1.99 each. Can't find the Kindle for Samsung app? --> see this discussion posts 320~332 Regarding Ducks and Universes -- Neve Maslakovic/ Alexander Cendese --> 9.2 hrs --> sci-fi
Rite of Wrongs -- Mica Stone/ Cassandra Campbell --> 11.1 hrs --> suspense
Broken Pieces -- Kathleen Long/ Jacquie Floyd --> 8.2 hrs --> contemp
Falling for Frederick -- Cheryl Bolen/ Amy McFadden --> 9.2 hrs --> romance Last edited by tubemonkey; 04-03-2018 at 11:26 PM. |
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Today Only (?)--Fresh Slate of Whispersync Deals on Kindle Exclusives.
I got an email from Amazon today, telling about Kindle Books Deal of the Day.
Frankly, I don't know yet if any, or maybe all, of these ebooks are included in the Kindle Exclusives of the Week (see post #72) or are additional ones. I think that these are Kindle Exclusives that are marked down for today only, because they are called "Kindle Books Deals of the Day." Since the deals seem to be good for today only, I wanted to go ahead and post the webpage with those Kindle ebooks, rather than take the time to vet the whole thing, then post later in the day and, as a result, have you potentially miss out on some great deals. So, that's what I'm doing now. I did do a quick spot-check before starting this post, however. The first ebook shown is An Engineered Injustice (Philadelphia Legal series), by William L. Myers, Jr. The price for the entire Whispersync deal is $3.98 ($2.99-ebook + $1.99-audio narration). Taking a quick trip to Audible, I found that the audio (by itself, of course) there is $15.95. So, that deal is a great one, in my opinion. I encourage you to go ahead and start looking on your own. Remember to use the search and sort features. You'll want to select "eBooks with Audible Narration," for sure (you are on the "Whispersync Deals" thread, remember ), in order to save yourself some time. With Audible having moved to the West Coast, hopefully we'll have until 12 p.m. Pacific Standard Time to grab some great deals. UPDATE: I perused the list of one of my favorite categories--"Biographies and Memoirs." Some of the titles are familiar, but the great majority, by far, are not. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 04-01-2018 at 06:14 PM. |
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