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Cyber Monday #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Seveneves, The Hunger Games, 1984, The Forever War, Flowers for Algernon, The Muralist, Octavia Butler, and more

Posted on 2016-11-28 at 21:46 by Sam

Today's "Cyber Monday" Kindle Daily Deals listings number in the hundreds -- over 400, actually. It's a lot to look through, especially with the wonky "paging" (with no apparent "see all" or category search links!) for the sale. But, have no fear! As I did just recently with the monthly November #WhispersyncDeal roundup, which is still ongoing through Wednesday so don't miss that, either, I took a glance through and found the best deals on the best books. Here we go:

Seveneves: A Novel by Neal

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Black Friday #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Jemisin's The Fifth Season, McCammon's Swan Song, Cashore's Graceling, and Sanderson's Alcatraz

Posted on 2016-11-26 at 07:26 by Sam

While the November #WhispersyncDeal roundup continues through the weekend, today's Whispersync-enabled Kindle Daily Deals include some spectacular speculative fiction for all ages:

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, read by Robin Miles for $2.99+$4.95 -- An absolutely amazing book and audiobook, the start of a new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin.

Swan Song by Robert McCammon, read by Tom Stechschulte for $1.99+$3.95 -- "Robert McCammon's prescient

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged brandon sanderson, nk jemisin, robin miles

November #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Margaret Atwood, Neal Stephenson, Becky Chambers, Joe Hill, Paul Tremblay, Amy Bartol, and more

Posted on 2016-11-25 at 08:36 by Sam

Before November runs out, take the take to take a break from Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping and pick up a little something for yourself for those long, dark winter nights. There are 510 Whispersync-enabled audiobooks in this month's Monthly Deals in Kindle Books listings, which is a very, very big number. Here's what most catches my eye and ear this month:

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, read by Claire Danes for Audible for $2.99+$3.99 "[A] novel of such power that the reader will be

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged amy a bartol, anne charnock, Becky Chambers, claire danes, cory doctorow, guillermo del toro, jeff vandermeer, joe hill, julie kagawa, katherine kellgren, luke daniels, margaret atwood, neal stephenson, paul tremblay, ron perlman, samuel r delany, vikas adam, wil wheaton

October #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Lian Hearn's Emperor of the Eight Islands, Jose Saramago's Blindness, Rysa Walker's CHRONOS Files, Seanan McGuire's Indexing, and more

Posted on 2016-10-31 at 04:05 by Sam

It's a pretty lean month for the #WhispersyncDeal monthly roundup, making yet another "almost too late to be useful" post pretty ridiculous. When I finally started looking at the deals in the monthly $3.99 or Less and 50 Kindle Books for $2 Each listings between innings of the Cubs World Series games (yes I just typed that!) I almost decided to just go ahead and skip the month. While great, we've seen Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and Slaughter-House Five and Richard Matheson's I Am Legend before quite a few

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Review: The Dispatcher by John Scalzi, read by Zachary Quinto for Audible

Posted on 2016-10-11 at 14:44 by Sam

The Dispatcher by John Scalzi Read by Zachary Quinto for Audible

Free until November 2, The Dispatcher is an audio-exclusive short novella from John Scalzi, read by Zachary Quinto -- best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes -- who "brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi."

The book starts just a bit heavy

Posted in reviews | Tagged audible, john scalzi, zachary quinto

September #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Octavia Butler, Jay Posey, Richard Matheson, R. A. MacAvoy, Jose Saramago, Carl Hiassen, Karen Lord, and more

Posted on 2016-09-30 at 17:47 by Sam

In the latest crop of the monthly 3.99 or less Kindle titles, there's 174 Whispersync-enabled deals to check out, with no shortage of fantastic books and audiobooks from classic and current sf to epic fantasy to thrillers and more. When you add the monthly $2 or less listings with its own 52 Whispersync deals, there's certainly a lot to tempt you as September comes to a close. And! While you're at it, don't forget that Audible's $4.95 members-only "Win-Win" sale was extended through the end of the month as

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Audible's latest members-only "Win-Win" sale

Posted on 2016-09-25 at 17:57 by Sam

I had such plans for this month, to get the #WhispersyncDeal roundup out early, and then, well, more and more deals just kept needing to be added, and then this deal rolled out. So, before it's entirely too late instead of nearly, and before I get to the more "regularly scheduled" Whispersync deals, first up this month is my top 18 picks from a glance through Audible's Members-Only "Win-Win" sale, with over 200 titles for just $4.95 each. The sale ends September 26, 2016 at 11:59 PM PT (US) so as of this

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August #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence, Alex Bledsoe's Wisp of a Thing, Marko Kloos, Alan Cumming, Tim Powers, and much more

Posted on 2016-08-30 at 16:07 by Sam

August is almost over, which means it's #WhispersyncDeal roundup time! Before I get to the regular Monthly Deals in Kindle Books and 50 Kindle Book Deals for $2 Each listings, and the huge list of titles in Audible's "3 years of daily deals" sale, though, a completely separate deal headlines my picks this month:

Per Tor and Tor.com editor Marco Palmieri, Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence is moving from Tor Books to Tor.com Publishing, and the series-wide $4.99 sale continues through August. The bad news is

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged alan cumming, alan moore, alex bledsoe, jasper fforde, john malkovich, john scalzi, kevin j anderson, kurt vonnegut, luke daniels, marko kloos, max gladstone, oliver wyman, rachel aaron, richard armitage, robin miles, simon vance, stefan rudnicki, tananarive due, tim gerard reynolds, victor bevine, vikas adam, wil wheaton

Wednesday's #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Connie Willis, Diana Gabaldon, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Matthew Reilly

Posted on 2016-08-10 at 20:20 by Sam

Bit too big of a day to link them all one at a time, so here's four great deals today to check out:

Blackout (All Clear Book 1) by Connie Willis, read by Katherine Kellgren for $1.99+$4.49 is the first half of the Hugo Award winning time-travel duology Blackout/All Clear: "Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her

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July #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Ken Liu, Kat Howard, Octavia Butler, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Matheson, Walter Mosley, Field of Dreams, Scott Westerfeld's Zeroes, and much more

Posted on 2016-07-29 at 22:59 by Sam

July brought a refreshed list of Summer Reading Deals and 50 Kindle Books for $2 Each to the Kindle store, and there's over 700 titles in there, 387 of which are Whispersync for Voice enabled in the "Summer Reading Deals" alone. (There's another 46 in the $2 Kindle listings.) What's most worth checking out? There's a lot, even there, including a few titles from 2016 from Saga Press and Simon & Schuster Audio, classics, and more. Here you go, starting with those Saga/S&S titles that I can hardly believe can

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged brandon mull, kat howard, ken liu, octavia butler, scott westerfeld