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Get ready for 9 hours of audiobook awesomeness. Lowe’s autobiography is a must-listen for memoir fans. It seems that Audible is on a freebie kick –  so add this title from Macmillan Audio to your account or start a membership to download this one before it disappears. Here’s the link: http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B006IT0K6Q&AID=10273919&PID=3512156&source_code=COMA0213WS031709

What’s iLeadership? This 7 hr listen will help your 2012 resolutions for business management match the entrepreneurial leadership of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Today’s free audiobook link for The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation “shares the lessons that come out of Steve’s intuitive approach to show how the creative and technological brilliance of iLeadership can [...]

Ebooks & audiobooks via the OverDrive app are awesome. Here’s how to set up your shiny new Kindle Fire with the OverDrive Media Console app, allowing easy wifi download of free public library materials.  Once you download the app, tap the small menu button at the bottom-center of the Fire’s touch screen, tap “Get Books,” then [...]

Simon Vance has a holiday treat for you on his blog – a Christmas reading from Dickens. Thanks, Simon! Enjoy  

Narrator, director, producer: Gilbert is a master of all things digital, whether in her home studio or when recording titles for a spectrum of top publishers. If you’ve never listened to an audio featuring her, here’s a perfect place to start: Gilbert narrated The Adults by Alison Espach, one of the thirteen top adult audiobooks on Booklist’s2011 Editors’ [...]

Great for holiday travel! Tantor Audio has two free audiobook downloads for you: 5 hours of Favorite Stories of Christmas Past, with eBook included, read by Renée Raudman and Alan Sklar, plus 11 hours of Gulliver’s Travels, also with eBook, read by David Case. Audible has a free download of Blackstone Audio’s 9 hour recording of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes read [...]

Bossypants by Tina Fey is the top of the list for 2011 – the complete list is below, with links to the original Booklist reviews. Plenty here for everyone to enjoy. Congratulations to all of the producers, directors, and narrators on creating this year’s best in listening! And be sure to check out the ENTIRE [...]

Reflections by Weston Woods/Scholastic Audio producer on changes in audiobook creation. I asked five industry pros about the shift from studio production teams to solo narrators recording in home studios for my January “Voices in My Head” column in Booklist. Their answers are so thoughtful that I want to share every word with you, before [...]

Here’s a “Best of 2011″ list from the All About Romance blog “Speaking About Audiobooks” column. Plenty of new listens in the blog post, plus lots more suggested in the post’s comments . You’ll even find some of your favorite romance narrators adding their comments. I had great fun dipping into the Romance genre when [...]

Ethics for a Whole World by the Dalai Lama, narrated by Martin Sheen. Grab this nearly 6 hour download from Audible here: http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B0069A03IY&source_code=FBIFP9002WS120511. Free through December 20th. The description on the Audible site reads, “His Holiness the Dalai Lama, at his most compassionate and outspoken, elaborates and deepens his vision for the nonreligious way. Transcending the mere “religion [...]