Posts published in: 2015/08

August WhispersyncDeal roundup: Ken Liu, Chuck Wendig, Joyce Carol Oates, Max Brooks, and more; read by Michael Kramer, Luke Daniels, Kate Rudd, Grover Gardner, Mary Robinette Kowal, and more!

Posted on 2015-08-27 at 17:33 by Sam

I keep getting later and later in the month with these... so this time, once more, with feeling, don't wait too long. The first two sections of deals all expire on August 31. Tick-tock.

First, a rough pass through the 156 Whispersync-enabled Monthly Deals for $3.99 or Less which, let me tell you, is a lot of titles. Here's what most caught my eye, and there are some really good ones:

  

The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty) by Ken Liu, read by Michael Kramer for Simon & Schuster Audio for $1.99+$3

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Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged arthur c clarke, chuck wendig, emily beresford, grover gardner, joyce carol oates, kate rudd, ken liu, luke daniels, mary robinette kowal, max brooks, michael crichton, michael kramer, Michael R Underwood

Downpour.com audiobook rental program review and offer

Posted on 2015-08-20 at 17:12 by Sam

I'd been meaning to check out Downpour.com's digital audiobook rental program for a while; there's a recent flurry of titles out that I really want to get to soon -- most recently Molly Tanzer's Vermillion and Aliette de Bodard's The House of Shattered Wings -- and there's only so much money in the audiobook slush fund for them. I've noticed the $5.95/$6.95 rental program for a while, but was never really quite that tempted. I like the idea of being able to go back and listen to a title again in a year or

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged downpour, simon vance