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Oscar tie-in #WhispersyncDeal roundup for February 27: Life of Pi, Mary Poppins, 12 Years a Slave, and more

Amazon’s Gold Box Deal today is a “Read it before you see it” set of discounted books that were made into Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated films, 9 of which are Whispersync for Voice enabled. Some of these (Room, The Silence of the Lambs) still … Continue reading

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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!

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 … Continue reading

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Whispersync Monthly Deals for June 2014: Ben Winters, Joyce Carol Oates, Joe Hill, Marcus Sakey, Elmore Leonard, and more (updated June 5!)

June is here, and along with it another crop of monthly Kindle deals, including quite a few fantastic titles with inexpensive Whispersync for Voice upgrades to the Audible editions. Here are the eight titles which most caught my eye:   … Continue reading

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Release Week: C. Robert Cargill’s Queen of the Dark Things, Felix Gilman’s The Revolutions, Josh Malerman’s Bird Box, Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter, and Dead Man’s Hand edited by John Joseph Adams

MAY 7-13, 2014: A sequel I’ve been anticipating for the past year, a short stay on the “missing in audio” list for a book from one of my favorite authors, a post-apocalyptic horror, Huck Finn in the future, and a Weird … Continue reading

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Sam’s Listening Report: April 2013

Well, I’ve lapped myself in terms of getting out these so-called “monthly” listening reports, as these listens are all from a year (and counting) ago. But it was a fantastic month for me, with all four books showing up in … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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