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Audible announces To celebrate the announcement of Zune’s compatability with Audible, we’re proudly making Dean Koontz’ Black River available as a FREE download. Simply click the “Get It Now” button below, and you’ll be on your way. Narrated by the inestimable Scott Brick, this adult title from master suspense storyteller Koontz sounds like a sure-fire [...]

A video break – enjoy! This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

Audiobook expert Pam Spencer Holley, the amazing woman who spearheaded the Odyssey Award Task Force and the chair of this year’s Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production, sent me information about an audiobook discussion list that I didn’t know about. So of course, I immediately subscribed! Thanks, Pam! Here’s more information… AUDIOBOOKS is a [...]

Yesterday morning I pulled the perfect audiobook from my “listening shelf” – It’s Time to Sleep My Love & On the Night You Were Born: The You are Loved Collection from MacMillan. Lovely lullaby tunes composed and performed by Sally Taylor, daughter of music legends James Taylor and Carly Simon coupled with the text from [...]

What’s a Podiobook? Think of it as a 21st-century version of Dickens’s serialized novels – for free. Tech-savvy writers have by-passed print publishing entirely, posting chapter-by-chapter audio versions of their books online. There’s a wide range of literary quality & audio production in the over 250 titles available for download. GoodReads has selected 50 top [...]

One of the most popular posts from my pre-Booklist Audiobooker blog was a how-to description on ripping audiobook CDs to iTunes. The new iTunes 8 upgrade is a definite must for iTunes-using audiobooker lovers, as it includes MUCH easier importing of audiobooks to  iTunes, iPods, and iPhones allowing varible speed listening (slow, medium, or fast), [...]

Here is Part Three of Audiobooker’s Choice: a completely personal list of my suggestions for great audiobook listening for children & young adults (and grown-ups who love a good story). Part One includes titles beginning with A-C, Part Two has D-M, and today we have the end of the alphabet. Now you have a holiday [...]

On to Part Two of Audiobooker’s Choice – a completely personal list of my suggestions for great audiobook listening for children & young adults (and grown-ups who love a good story). This isn’t an official “best of the best” where winners gain gold medals. Just my way of being your personal online audiobook librarian! Hope [...]

According to this post in PC Pro, Nintendo has confirmed that it will be selling a “100 Classic Books Collection” cartridge, and will offer ebook downloads through the DS’s WiFi connection. Cool. What’s next? Who knows – maybe downloadable audiobooks – it has sound, after all. And if you think that just kids have the [...]