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Another Audible.com members-only sale: 2 for 1

Posted on 2012-08-10 at 19:59 by Sam

Audible’s having another members-only 2-for-1 sale through August 14. Listed by author last name, here are the titles which catch my eye:

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Audible.com "Paperback Sale" through July 28

Posted on 2012-07-16 at 14:06 by Sam

Billed as “100 audiobooks for as low as $5.95 each”, Audible.com is having a Paperback Sale through July 28, with a pretty good haul of interesting sf/f titles. Here’s the ones which most caught my eye, $5.95 unless otherwise noted:

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Audible.com asks some of the industry's best narrators: "What's the Best Book You've Ever Narrated?"

Posted on 2011-08-26 at 15:29 by Sam

Link: Audible.com asks some of the industry's best narrators: "What's the Best Book You've Ever Narrated?"

Wow, there’s a great new (at least to me!) feature page at Audible.com today, “The Best Book I Ever Narrated”. This page lists some of my favorite narrators describing, well, their pick for the best book they ever narrated, and as a narrator junkie this is just a great feature. Some highlights:

Glimpses by Lewis Shiner narrated by Stefan Rudnicki:

This is an audiobook which is very dear to my heart

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Audible.com "First Friday" for August 2011: Among Others and All the Lives He Led

Posted on 2011-08-05 at 17:52 by Sam

Link: Audible.com "First Friday" for August 2011: Among Others and All the Lives He Led

It’s here! I’ve been waiting for this to come out in audio since January. Narrated by none other than Katherine Kellgren, Jo Walton’s novel Among Others (Tor, January 2011) leads off Audible.com’s “First Friday” for August.

Described as: “Startling, unusual, and yet irresistibly listenable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of

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Audible.com July 2011 Customer Favorites

Posted on 2011-08-05 at 17:43 by Sam

Link: Audible.com July 2011 Customer Favorites

Another month, another top-10 from Audible.com in their Monthly Customer Favorites series. It’s a genre-heavy month, with:

But there’s also a non-genre book I keep hearing

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Just added at Audible.com: J.G. Ballard's 2003 novel Millennium People

Posted on 2011-07-13 at 14:26 by Sam

Link: Just added at Audible.com: J.G. Ballard's 2003 novel Millennium People

J. G. Ballard is a writer of which I’ve heard much, but from whom I’ve read nearly nothing. Today, courtesy an AudioGO production of a David Rintoul narration, Audible.com added Millennium People to its catalog:

The explosive J. G. Ballard renaissance, which began with the 2009 publication of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, now continues with his first novel to be published in America in a full decade. “Wonderfully warped,

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Something I missed in the Audible.com paperback sale: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest for $5.95

Posted on 2011-07-12 at 17:30 by Sam

Link: Something I missed in the Audible.com paperback sale: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest for $5.95

Or it might not be that I missed it, because this morning Audible.com added another stack of books to its Paperback Sale, including The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin narrated by Kevin Pariseau!

cover art for the word for world is forest by ursula k. le guin

At a shade over 5 hours, it is a short listen, but it’s one I’ve been hoping to pick up as I’ve heard such great things about the book.

Other books of interest I didn’t see the

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A Dance with Dragons brings George R. R. Martin's series A Song of Ice and Fire back to audio

Posted on 2011-07-12 at 14:10 by Sam

Link: A Dance with Dragons brings George R. R. Martin's series A Song of Ice and Fire back to audio

Well, the wait is finally over. George R. R. Martin’s series A Song of Ice and Fire continues with book 5, A Dance with Dragons:

A Dance with Dragons audiobook cover

Once again narrated by Roy Dotrice, it’s a 2-credit download right off the bat this time. But for nearly 50 hours of Dotrice’s narration of this long-awaited book? I don’t think that’s deterring too many people. Me? I’m glad I saved up an extra credit for this one.

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Audible.com's July-long "ZombieFest" is here. Also: Audible.com SF/F July 6 releases.

Posted on 2011-07-07 at 00:34 by Sam

Link: Audible.com's July-long "ZombieFest" is here. Also: Audible.com SF/F July 6 releases.

Another new feature at Audible.com, this one a month-long “ZombieFest”:

ZombieFest is here. Over the next month we’ll have four exclusive early-release zombie novels — starting with Ex-Patriots by Peter Clines. With each of the four books, you’ll get one of Clines’ interlocked stories from The Junkie Quatrain — written just for zombie fans like you, and available exclusively through Audible. Plus, check out our aut

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Best of June 2011 in Audible.com SFF: Karen Lord's Redemption in Indigo

Posted on 2011-06-30 at 09:00 by Sam

Link: Best of June 2011 in Audible.com SFF: Karen Lord's Redemption in Indigo

Published by Small Beer Press in July 2010 and on several year’s best fantasy lists, Karen Lord’s Redemption in Indigo finally arrived at Audible on June 15, courtesy of a Recorded Books production, narrated by Robin Miles. Miles has 56 Audible titles to her credit, but this was my first, though her 2010 narration of Ekaterina Sedia’s The House of Discarded Dreams is waiting for me on my wish list for one of these days.

Enough

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