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Grab this science-fiction title quick – available for free from Audible.com until June 12th! Sun of Suns: Book One of Virga by Karl Schroeder, narrated by Joyce Irvine, published by Macmillan Audio is the first in a space trilogy . Read the review of the print edition here – and if you’d like recommendations of [...]

Got kids? How about students? Or teen advisory board members? Let them know about Listening Library’s “Fantasy Road Trip Contest!”   Teens between 13-18 years old may enter the contest by creating a video about these favorite book series: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy (The Sweet Far Thing), the Beka Cooper series (Bloodhound), and the Percy Jackson [...]

Grab this one quick! Audible is offering Brilliance Audio’s  The Merchant of Death , first volume in the Pendragon series, for free until May 12th. The series is hugely popular with my middle school fantasy fans – there’s even a graphic novel adaptation of the book. Rabid and reluctant readers alike will devourer this teen [...]

Grab nine FREE short stories from best-selling authors. Just click here, open a Barnes & Nobel account, add the titles to your cart, and download! It looks as though the titles each cost a penny, but there is no charge at the final checkout. Enjoy!

My husband found a Garmin GPS under the tree this year. One of the sneaky reasons I chose his model is that it also serves as an MP3 player, and has a headphone jack. Now he can listen to talk radio on the car system, while I plug into headphones and listen to an audiobook [...]

Hmm… Is this some sort of a marketing test ?
Currently available for free download from iTunes:
An 11-minute The Easter Story excerpt from The New Testament produced by Thomas Nelson Publishing
and
A 24-minute Why We Suck excerpt from Dennis Leary’s newest profane comedy from Penguin.

Tennessee Woman Spends $50,000 on Audiobooks -  the great title of a Huffington Post post by Tom Alderman that turns the spotlight on Marian Bryant, the librarian who orders $50,000 of audiobooks for a consortium of public libraries. This article has great information on the huge popularity of audiobooks, including these stats:
All across the country, [...]

Thanks to a comment left by D. Wittkower, I learned about Traveling Classics, a very interesting new player in the  Text Synchronized Audiobook market. If you’d like to try this Apple app for free, check here for a free Friday the thirteenth download of The Tell-Tale Heart! UPDATE: Traveling Classics will keep the Tell-tale Heart as a [...]

This month’s New York Times Fiction Podcast :
Roger Angell reads John Updike’s short story “Playing with Dynamite,” and talks with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, about editing Updike.

Christian Audio gives away a free audiobook each month, and February’s title is Not for Sale by David Batstone. Use the coupon code FEB2009 to receive the free unabridged title. Here’s more info:
Award-winning journalist David Batstone reveals the story of a new generation of 21st century abolitionists and their heroic campaign to put an end [...]