Page 6 of posts filed: Whispersync Deals

Whispersync Daily Deal: The Lives (and Deaths) of Tao, The Curiosity, The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope, The Stockholm Octavo, and Flight Behavior

Posted on 2014-04-26 at 14:58 by Sam

Saturday, April 26, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deals listings with excellent Whispersync for Voice deals include recently-announced John W. Campbell for Best New Writer nominee Wesley Chu's The Lives of Tao and The Deaths of Tao, along with a huge list of "book club" fiction mostly from 2012 and 2013 in a special Gold Box Deal of the Day: Book Club Favorites call-out, including "genre in the mainstream" novels The Curiosity, The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope, and The Stockholm Octavo, along with some

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged barbara kingsolver, flight behavior, george guidall, karen engelmann, michael naramore, rhonda riley, simon vance, stephen p kiernan, the enchanted life of adam hope, the lives of tao, the stockholm octavo, wesley chu

Whispersync Daily Deal: R.L. Stine's Zombie Town

Posted on 2014-04-25 at 14:13 by Sam

Friday, April 25, 2014: Friday's Kindle Daily Deal list includes one title of interest with an inexpensive Whispersync upgrade: R.L Stine's Zombie Town, read by George Kareman and Tara Carrozza for Brilliance Audio. On sale for $1.99 Kindle with a $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition. A short (44 minute) spook for kids, from the master of children's scares: "This used to be such a nice, quiet town. But that was before all the zombies. When twelve-year-old Mike and his friend, Karen, go

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged george kareman, rl stine, tara carrozza, zombie town

Whispersync Daily Deals: Regarding Ducks and Universes, The Seeing Stone, and The Hangman's Daughter

Posted on 2014-04-23 at 18:56 by Sam

Wednesday April 23, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal haul is a pretty hefty one, with six books across three series to check out with inexpensive Whispersync for Voice upgrades to their audiobook editions.

Neve Maslakovic's 2010 novel Regarding Ducks and Universes predates her bestselling "The Incident" series, offering a stand-alone taste of her penchant for "weaving together physics, philosophy, and wry humor" (Booklist) and, at $1.99 Kindle today with a $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged alexander cendese, grover gardner, holly black, mark hamill, neve maslakovic, oliver potzsch, regarding ducks and universes, the hangman's daughter, the spiderwick chronicles, Tony DiTerlizzi

Whispersync Daily Deal: The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers, read by Simon Vance

Posted on 2014-04-18 at 14:46 by Sam

Friday, April 18, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal listings includes Tim Powers' 1989 novel The Stress of Her Regard for $1.99 with a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Simon Vance for Blackstone Audio, a fantastic audiobook which Dave calls "without a doubt one of the most terrifying and disturbing books I've read or listened to" and which I reviewed as "a wonderful and dark novel of a fictionalized Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Keats, and of the more completely fictional

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged simon vance, the stress of her regard, tim powers

Whispersync Daily Deal: H. Paul Honsinger's Man of War series

Posted on 2014-04-14 at 12:53 by Sam

Monday, April 14, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal listings includes H. Paul Honsinger's Man of War series, originally self-published and recently published in new (updated, edited, etc.) editions by 47North, each $1.99 in Kindle with a $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible editions, read by Ray Chase for Brilliance Audio. The first book, To Honor You Call Us (Man of War, Book 1), introduces "The Terran Union", which  "is engaged in a vast interstellar war against the Krag, ruthless aliens

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged h paul honsinger, man of war, ray chase

Whispersync Daily Deal: Stanislaw Lem's Solaris read by Alessandro Juliani

Posted on 2014-04-09 at 13:23 by Sam

Wednesday, April 9, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Bill Johnston's "definitive" 2011 translation of Stanislaw Lem's classic 1961 sf novel Solaris. "Telling of humanity's encounter with an alien intelligence on the planet Solaris, the 1961 novel is a cult classic, exploring the ultimate futility of attempting to communicate with extra-terrestrial life." On sale for $0.99 and offering a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Battlestar Galactica's Alessandro Juliani for

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged alessandro juliani, solaris, stanislaw lem

Whispersync Deals: Pierce Brown's Red Rising and Sarah Fine's Guardians of the Shadowlands series

Posted on 2014-04-08 at 15:17 by Sam

Tuesday, April 8, 2014: While it's not in the Kindle Daily Deal listings, Pierce Brown's Red Rising has been on sale for $1.99 in Kindle for at least the past day or so, with a $4.49 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Tim Gerard Reynolds for Recorded Books. Released in late January 2014 and a NY Times bestseller, the book is pitched as "Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow" by Scott Sigler. Well, now. The first in a new series: "Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged amy mcfadden, pierce brown, red rising, sanctum, sarah fine, tim gerard reynolds

Whispersync Daily Deal: Hugh Howey's Sand and Susanna Kearsley's The Firebird

Posted on 2014-04-06 at 13:44 by Sam

Sunday, April 6, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal listings bring both sf and paranormal historical fiction Whispersync deals, starting with Hugh Howey's Sand Omnibus, his first new novel since his best-selling Silo Saga, on sale for $1.99 Kindle with a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Karen Chilton for Howey's Broad Reach Publishing. "We live across the thousand dunes with grit in our teeth and sand in our homes. No one will come for us. No one will save us. This is our

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged hugh howey, karen chilton, katherine kellgren, sand, susanna kearsley, the firebird

Whispersync Deals: Chuck Wendig's The Blue Blazes, Megan Miranda's Fracture, and Aric Davis' A Good and Useful Hurt

Posted on 2014-04-04 at 15:04 by Sam

Friday, April 4, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal list includes Chuck Wendig's standalone novel The Blue Blazes, for $1.99 Kindle plus $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Patrick Lawlor for Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio. "Meet Mookie Pearl. Criminal underworld? He runs in it. Supernatural underworld? He hunts in it. Nothing stops Mookie when he’s on the job. But when his daughter takes up arms and opposes him, something’s gotta give...."

Also there are two books in the

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged aric davis, chuck wendig, luke daniels, megan miranda, patrick lawlor, Therese Plummer

Whispersync Deal Roundup: Patrick Rothfuss, Jonathan Maberry, Ben H. Winters, Gail Z. Martin, and more

Posted on 2014-03-21 at 20:30 by Sam

Friday, March 21, 2014: Well, since my last big roundup (based on SFSignal's excellent monthly peek into discount Kindle listings) a new crop of titles to check out has gone on sale in a slightly roundabout way. Let's follow the chain:

• Barnes & Noble launched a Nook First in Series promotion, placing a whole bunch of "first in a series" ebooks on sale
• Amazon.com's price matching brings the Kindle price down to match
• Some of those titles have pretty nice Whispersync upgrade prices to the Audible edition

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged ben h. winters, corey jackson, gail z martin, jonathan maberry, kate elliott, myke cole, nick podehl, patrick rothfuss, peter berkrot, tim gerard reynolds