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Naxos Audiobooks is giving away a free story from Classic Ghost Stories each week until Halloween! Grab this week’s offering, Charles Dickens’ The Signal Man read by Stephen Critchlow, here.

Booklist’s Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries – a new & improved monthly e-newsletter – debuts today with great ideas for teachers, librarians, parents, and caregivers. Sign up for your FREE connection to reviews of the newest & best in children’s and YA literature, as well as exclusive content such this month’s columns on mystery [...]

Joe Hill, Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Neil Gaiman, Marcia Talley, and Edward P. Jones are the featured authors in HarperAudio’s “Summer of Books” promotion. Click here to download the audio MP3 files for your Labor Day weekend drive or final lazy days on the beach. Or grab Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald, his Hugo and [...]

Harlequin’s new Teen Romance line kicks off with Rachel Vincent’s paranormal prequel to her Soul Screamers series. Grab the audiobook of My Soul to Lose for free from Audible here: http://bit.ly/EEIkZ. Act fast as I have no idea how long this offer will apply. I am curious about this move into YA for Harlequin, after [...]

The home of 2,557 audiobooks in 26 languages – all FREE. Hugh McGuire launched the volunteer-effort audiobook publishing model LibriVox on August 10th, 2005. Hugh is this week’s Inside the Audiobook Studio guest, ready to share the background on this amazing project. Want more information on LibriVox? Subscribe to the Community Podcast here. Have you [...]

Wendy’s & Listening Library team up to provide an awesome freebie to hook kids on summertime reading with their ears – and for teachers & parents to build an audiobook collection. Make that car trip easier with an audiobook & activity sheets printed out from the Magic Tree House Classroom Club. There’s even a 25% [...]

Public libraries using OverDrive as their download service for audiobooks, eBooks, music, and video just expanded their offerings – and made quite a few patrons much happier. In the past, iPod users were frustrated with the Windows-MP3 device-only compatibility with OverDrive’s file format. But the release of OverDrive’s no-cost Media Console version 3.2 for Windows [...]

Lion Brand Yard & Audible offer Sweet Talk, by Susan Mallery as free download for romance-filled summertime listening. Looks like a perfect beach listen, too ;- Click here for all the details!

One for each member of the family: Louis L’Amour for mom or dad, Percy Jackson for the tween, and Magic Treehouse for the little one. Just sign up for the Random House Audio email newsletter, and you’ll get a download link in your email. The promo highlights the Listen Up Florida with Audiobooks program, but [...]

OneWorld Travel Library offers a free audiobook download via the airport wifi in the Brussels, Milan Malpensa and Rome Fiumicino airports. Travelers can download up to three free audiobooks – what a fantastic idea to make that long trip fly by <groan> They’ll even send you an email reminded so you don’t forget to log [...]