Posts tagged: simon vance

January #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Aldous Huxley, Meg Elison, Jacqueline Carey, Alex Bledsoe, Clive Barker, and more

Posted on 2017-01-31 at 00:04 by Sam

The first #WhispersyncDeal roundup of 2017 is here! As usual I'll run down my picks among this month's Whispersync-for-voice-enabled Monthly Deals in Kindle Books, also known now as eBooks with Audible Narration, of which there are 536 to scan through this month. Well, I'm going to keep calling them "Whispersync deals", and here's what most caught my eye and ear this month; don't wait too long as these deals expire on January 31:

Island by Aldous Huxley, read by Simon Vance for Tantor Audio for $1.99+$3

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged aldous huxley, alex bledsoe, angela dawe, clive barker, jacqueline carey, meg elison, simon vance, stefan rudnicki

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

June #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Umberto Eco, T. Kingfisher, Scott Meyer, Rysa Walker, Gwenda Bond, Steve McHugh, Dennis Lehane, Ian Fleming, and more

Posted on 2016-06-25 at 20:01 by Sam

Between this month's Summer Reading Deals in Kindle Books and 50 Kindle Book Deals for $2 Each listings there's quite a few (over 300!) Whispersync for Voice titles to check out. From comedic fantasy to YA time travel, Umberto Eco to new fiction in translation, there's something for everybody to check out:

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco for $2.99+$3.99 is the legendary Eco's award-winning first novel, read by the marvelous Sean Barrett along with Nicholas Rowe and Neville Jason: "The year is 1327.

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged amy mcfadden, amy rubinate, aric davis, ayse kulin, dennis lehane, gwenda bond, ian fleming, james bond, jeff strand, kate rudd, luke daniels, mary robinette kowal, rysa walker, scott meyer, sean barrett, simon vance, t kingfisher, the name of the rose, umberto eco

May #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Ink Mage, The Oddfits, Neal Pollack, Wayward Pines, Evermen, Ania Ahlborn, and more

Posted on 2016-05-31 at 01:22 by Sam

Of the about 300 titles in the Monthly Deals listings, 142 are listed as "eBooks with Audible Narration" which, I gather, is how the Kindle store has been listing what used to be called "Whispersync for Voice" titles these days. I'm going to continue calling these "Whipsersync Deals" and this month we get Clive Barker, Neal Pollack, Blake Crouch, James Maxwell, Ania Ahlborn, Susan Ee, Robert Dugoni, Stuart Neville, Michael Wallace, and tons more, and though again as last month there's not a whole lot of

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged ania ahlborn, blake crouch, neal pollack, simon vance, tiffany tsao, victor gischler

Downpour.com audiobook rental program review and offer

Posted on 2015-08-20 at 17:12 by Sam

I'd been meaning to check out Downpour.com's digital audiobook rental program for a while; there's a recent flurry of titles out that I really want to get to soon -- most recently Molly Tanzer's Vermillion and Aliette de Bodard's The House of Shattered Wings -- and there's only so much money in the audiobook slush fund for them. I've noticed the $5.95/$6.95 rental program for a while, but was never really quite that tempted. I like the idea of being able to go back and listen to a title again in a year or

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged downpour, simon vance

January Whispersync Deal roundup: Frontera, The Thirteenth Step, Bitterwood, Katia Fox, The Lives of Tao, Embedded, and much, much more

Posted on 2015-01-22 at 22:04 by Sam

With less than 10 days left in the month, perhaps it's time to finally get the January Whispersync Deal roundup out into the world. [UPDATE: Since this post has drawn some new readers who may be unfamiliar with Whispersync for Voice, in brief: after (or at the same time as) buying the Kindle edition you can add on the narration if an enabled Audible edition exists, often for a steep discount on even the member/credit price.]

First, a handful of currently running Kindle Countdown Deals that will bump back

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged frontera, gabrielle de cuir, james langton, james maxey, joel ohman, justine eyre, kate rudd, katia fox, kevin j anderson, lewis shiner, luke daniels, meritropolis, michele w miller, robert brumm, rudy rucker, simon vance, stefan rudnicki, the thirteenth step, victor bevine, wendigo soul

Release Week: Gibson, Faber, Rothfuss, Martin, Rice, Shiner, and! Mieville

Posted on 2014-11-03 at 11:28 by Sam

OCTOBER 22-28, 2014: What was already an absolutely packed release week for concurrent new releases (Gibson, Faber, Rothfuss, Martin, Rice) and already with one back-list gem (Lewis Shiner's Frontera) includes the magnificent surprise of China Mieville's The Scar and Iron Council finally coming to US audio. It's been over a year and a half since I last fully turned my attention to the digital regional divide and these are two right from the top of the overseas wishlist, though in the meantime, several more

Posted in Release Week | Tagged anne rice, china mieville, frontera, george rr martin, gildart jackson, josh cohen, lewis shiner, lorelei king, michel faber, patrick rothfuss, prince lestat, roy dotrice, simon vance, stefan rudnicki, the book of strange new things, the peripheral, the slow regard of silent things, the world of ice and fire, william-gibson

Release Week: John Scalzi's Lock In, Peter Watts' Echopraxia, Richard Kadrey's The Getaway God, and Brent Weeks' The Broken Eye

Posted on 2014-09-02 at 02:46 by Sam

AUGUST 20-26, 2014: August goes out with quite a bang, with a near-future sf thriller, medium-future space sf, urban fantasy, and epic fantasy releases among the biggest of the year, ahead of what is set to be quite a September to remember. Also out this week: an English translation of Daniel Kehlman's tragicomic novel F, Lisa Shearin's Southern-fried, NYC-set urban fantasy The Grendel Affair, Simon R. Green's Voices from Beyond, David Drake's "Northworld" trilogy, Janet Morris and Chris Morris' The Sacred

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged amber benson, brent weeks, david drake, echopraxia, john scalzi, lisa shearin, lock in, macleod andrews, northworld, peter watts, richard kadrey, sandman slim, simon vance, the broken eye, the getaway god, the grendel affair, wil wheaton

Release Week: How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky, The String Diaries, Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners, Cat Rambo's Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight, and Clive Barker's Weaveworld read by Simon Vance

Posted on 2014-07-05 at 15:38 by Sam

JUNE 25-JULY 1, 2014: A fantastic crop of audiobooks this week, with picks from "nerd fiction" to Mulholland-published speculative thrillers, collections, and Clive Barker's 1987 novel Weaveworld. More great titles in the "also out this week" listings, including the latest in Charles Stross' Laundry Files, Peter David's vampiric retelling of Oliver Twist, and enough high-end epic fantasy to keep you busy for a hundred hours: Anthony Ryan's Tower Lord, Django Wexler's The Shadow Throne, Mark Smylie's The

Posted in Release Week | Tagged anthony ryan, artful, cat rambo, clive barker, how to tell toledo from the night sky, kelly link, lydia netzer, magic for beginners, mark smylie, peter david, simon vance, stephen lloyd jones, the barrow, the string diaries, tower lord, weaveworld

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