Posts published in: 2014/11
Saturday's huge Whispersync Deal roundup
Posted on 2014-11-29 at 16:27 by Sam
Saturday's Whispersync Deal roundup includes Brandon Sanderson, Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert, Ben Bova, Steven Brust, Mercedes Lackey, David Drake, Glen Cook, Larry Niven, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., and more, with narrators Michael Kramer, Stefan Rudnicki, William Dufris, Scott Brick, and more. I don't have too much time for more than a drive-by image gallery, so here they are, mostly $2.99+$2.99:
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Black Friday Whispersync Deal Roundup
Posted on 2014-11-28 at 13:53 by Sam
There's a fairly good-sized list of Black Friday Kindle Deals, with quite a few offering Whispersync for Voice deals, with all the ones I list here being on sale for $1.99+$1.99. Meanwhile, the November monthly deal roundup still has a few days left of usefulness, so don't forget to check through that list once before the month is over. And! Audible is having a Treat Yourself Sale through Dec 2 with over 300 titles at $4.95. Enjoy!
Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle read by Tom Weiner: "It's
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Release Week(s): Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, Tobias Buckell's The Apocalypse Ocean, Stephen King's Revival, V Wars: Blood and Fire, Bitter Waters, Amanda Palmer's The Art of Asking, and Jeff VanderMeer's "Area X"
Posted on 2014-11-25 at 5:0 by Sam
NOVEMBER 5-18, 2014: A Chinese science fiction blockbuster translated into English by one of the world's best new writers, a new novel from Stephen King read by actor David Morse, Amanda Palmer's self-help advice/memoir book, an anthology series sequel to V Wars, Chaz Brentley's collection Bitter Waters, the entire 4-book set of Tobias Buckell's Xenowealth series, and a gorgeously packaged "Area X" omnibus of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy headline a fantastic fortnight of new audiobooks. There's
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged amanda palmer, area x, bitter waters, chaz brentley, daniel abraham, jeff vandermeer, johannes cabal, ken liu, liu cixin, luke daniels, prentice onayemi, revival, robin miles, sarban, stephen king, the apocalypse ocean, the art of asking, the three-body problem, tobias s buckell, v wars, xenowealth
November 2014 Whispersync Roundup: Octavia Butler's Dawn, Peter David's Artful, Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan, and more
Posted on 2014-11-13 at 6:55 by Sam
Now that we're about halfway through November, it's past time to round up this month's Whispersync (and other) deals. First up, the usual gold source for new Whispersync deals, the Kindle monthly deals. 12 books to send up this time:
Dawn (The Xenogenesis Trilogy Book 1) By , Narrated By for $1.99+$3.49
Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged alan cumming, discworld, humble bundle, james langton, john scalzi, luke daniels, macus sakey, octavia butler, patrick ness, paul antony jones, peter david, robert krose, robert mccammon, scholastic audio, scott westerfeld, terry pratchett, the hunger games
Release Week: Kameron Hurley's The Mirror Empire, Steven Erikson's Willful Child, Daryl Gregory's Pandemonium, and Tad Williams' Otherland
Posted on 2014-11-12 at 20:11 by Sam
OCTOBER 29-NOVEMBER 4, 2014: Breathtakingly imaginative epic fantasy, sarcastic star-crossing science fiction, a demon possession pandemic, and multiverse-spanning virtual realities make for a fantastic release week of concurrent and backlist new audiobooks this week to start November. It's a packed week as well, with several very good titles also out this week including Stephen Baxter's Proxima, Jack McDevitt's Coming Home, Kim Newman's An English Ghost Story, Lydia Millet's Mermaids in Paradise, Ryan
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged daryl gregory, george newbern, kameron hurley, liza ross, macleod andrews, otherland, pandemonium, peter berkrot, steven erikson, tad williams, the mirror empire, willful child
Release Week: Gibson, Faber, Rothfuss, Martin, Rice, Shiner, and! Mieville
Posted on 2014-11-03 at 11:28 by Sam
OCTOBER 22-28, 2014: What was already an absolutely packed release week for concurrent new releases (Gibson, Faber, Rothfuss, Martin, Rice) and already with one back-list gem (Lewis Shiner's Frontera) includes the magnificent surprise of China Mieville's The Scar and Iron Council finally coming to US audio. It's been over a year and a half since I last fully turned my attention to the digital regional divide and these are two right from the top of the overseas wishlist, though in the meantime, several more
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