Posts tagged: audible.com
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:
- The Scar By Sergey Dyachenko and Marina Dyachenko, translated by Elinor Huntington, Narrated by Jonathan Davis for Audible Frontiers — Length:15 hrs and 17 mins — Release Date:02-28-12
- The Magician King: A Novel By Lev Grossman, Narrated by Mark Bramhall for Penguin Audiobooks — Length:15 hrs and 48 mins — Release Date:08-09-11 — one of my favorite audiobooks, sequel to
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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:
- The Rook: A Novel By Daniel O’Malley Narrated by Susan Duerden — Length:17 hrs and 51 mins
- A Discovery of Witches By Deborah Harkness, Narrated by Jennifer Ikeda — Series: All Souls, Book 1 — Length:24 hrs and 2 mins ($8.95)
- Delirium By Lauren Oliver, Narrated by Sarah Drew — S
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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 arrated by
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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:
- Vortex by narrated by
- Ex-Patriots by arrated by
- Hammered: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book 3 by arrated by
- A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 5 by narrated by
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:
Read more...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
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 narrated by
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:
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”:
Read more...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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