Audiobooks

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There are many places you can get audiobooks, and many ways to get them. Here you can review online stores, book clubs, and rental services. There are also some free downloads available, and your local library will have some auidobooks.

Abebooks.com

USA | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Spain

Buy CD, Tape


About 25,000 Cassete and CD audiobooks, 13,500 booksellers.

Payment Method
PayPal, Visa, American Express, Mastercard, Diners Club, Cheque, Money Order, Bank Draft.

Delivery
Many titles with 'No minimum purchase' free shipping. International shipping anywhere in the world.

40%-60% off list price for new books

New and Used items available. 90% off and more on used items

AbeBooks has some 13,500 sellers. The service is very well managed, there is a 30 day money-back-guarantee, resonable, and often free shipping. Many rare titles are available, there is a 'want' option, in case you can't find what you want.

Amazon.com

Buy CD, Tape


Over 150,000 Cassete and CD audio books; paper books, music, videos, more.

Payment Method
Credit Card, USA checking account, Purchase Order.

Delivery
Free shipping on orders over $25

30%-60% off list price

New and Used items available

Amazon A-Z guarantee covers all purchases Amazon is a great place to shop for books, movies, music. And if you live in the USA, you can shop in 35 product categories, including electronics, food, shoes, etc.

Audible.com

USA | France | Germany | United Kingdom

Buy Download
Download Club

Over 30,000 titles

.aa format
Can be used on 3 computers and 3 compatible MP3 players. If you no longer wish to use the service, you need to keep a free acount to keep using your purchased titles.

Payment Method
Credit Card, Money Order, Bank Draft

Delivery

1 Book/month + 30% off all

14.95/mo

12 Books at once + 30% off all

149.50/Year

2 Books/month + 30% off all

22.95/mo

24 Books at once + 30% off all

229.50/Year

0 Book credits. Purchase digital downloads. Keep your existing downloaded files alive.

Free

Audible has been dedicated to audio books online since 1995. Their rapidly growing collection is spoken word only: best selling books, educational material, self help, documentary. Compatible with 192 audio players, including iPod. Files are very small. If you unsubscribe from the service, you will need to keep a free acount with them to still use your existing purchases.

Audiobooksforfree.com

Based in UK

Free Download
Buy Download
Buy CD, DVD, preloaded hard drive or MP3 player
About 800 titles

MP3 or m4a format. (m4a must be ordered special)

Payment Method
PayPal or Credit Card

Delivery
Post. Works with a download manager.

8 Kb/sec	16 Kb/sec	24 Kb/sec	32 Kb/sec	48 Kb/sec
FREE	$3 USD	$5 USD	$6 USD	$7 USD

One title on MP3 CD

$15 USD

Some titles on one DVD

$25 USD

All books 9 MP3 or 10 m4a DVDs

$100 USD

All books Preloaded onto a 20 GB Portable Player

$600 USD

All books Preloaded onto a computer hard drive

??? Depends on size of drive

AudioBooksForFree offers Public Domain books in audiobook form. You can download lower quality files for free, or they will sell you higher quality downloads, or MP3 CDs, or DVDs, or a pre-loaded MP3 player or hard drive. Large number of files for free downloads. Audiobooksforfree sugest a Download Manager to help this.

BOOKSAMILLION.COM

USA | Canada

Buy CD, MP3 CD


About 37,000 audiobooks on CD or MP3 CD

Payment Method
Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, US Check, Money Order

Delivery
Free shipping on orders over $25 Some international shipping options available.

Regular prices on the site: 37% off list

Bargains Section: up to 75%+ off list

Great book store. Free shipping on US orders over $25. No return/exchange to the regular retail stores.

Buy.com

Buy CD, Tape


Over 2,300 audiobooks on CD

Payment Method
Credit Card, Personal Check, PayPal, Money Order

Delivery
Free shipping on books over $25

30%-70% off MSRP

Save 30% more with Buy.com Visa

Buy.com wants to be the best place to shop online. With their 10% price guarantee, lots of payment options, available free shipping in US, and more, they might be. New, used, reconditioned items available.

Chapters.Indigo.CA

Buy CD, Tape


80,000-100,000 Books on Tape or CD, over 3 million paper books, DVD movies, and music CDs

Payment Method
MasterCard, Visa, American Express

Delivery
Free Canadian shipping on orders over $39

Regular prices on the site: 30% off list

Books Outlet, Used Books: up to 80%+ off list

Ultimate Canadian shopping experience. Returns and exchanges to retail locations across the country. Join the ireward program for more savings

iTunes

United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, and Australia

Buy Download


Over 3.5 million songs, more than 30,000 audio books (Audible collection, and more), 65,000 free Podcasts

ACC, m4a

Payment Method
Credit Card, PayPal, bank account, iTunes gift certificate

Delivery
Requires iTunes, and Quick Time. Works only with iPod, iPhone, and some mobile phones

About 25% off list CD price for audio books

99c a song, $9.99 a movie, $4.99 iPod games.

Thousands of free podcasts

iTunes store is very popular. You can get all your entertainment from one spot, and for a good price, with audiobooks, movies, music, and so much more available. The free podcasts are great, no sign up required. Purchase music is subject to 'Fair Play' DRM restrictions.

Simply�Audiobooks

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Buy CD, Tape, Download, MP3 CD
Rent CD, MP3/CD
Download Club
About 20,000 titles
CD, MP3 CD
WMA

Payment Method
MasterCard, Visa

Delivery
US Post Express Mail. Rental deliveries seem to arrive at a rate of one a month, limiting number of books you can listen to to the number of selections in your plan

Rent

1 Rental at-a-time

$15

2 Rentals at-a-time

$25

3 Rentals at-a-time

$34

4 Rentals at-a-time

$41

Download

1 Download /mo US $143.40/yr, $14.95

2 Downloads /mo US $239.40/yr, $21.95/mo;

3 Downloads /mo US 323.40/yr, $27.95/mo;

SimplyAudiobooks has a small selection of free downloadable audio books . While they are from Public Domain texts they are professionally produced and narrated. With the 'book of the month' feature we can only expect the collection to grow.
Both 'All you can eat' options are very nice. Shipping is free for the rentals. Rental deliveries turn around time limits you to one delivery a month. Downloads are in the form of WMA files encoded with Janus PlaysForSure DRM. The DRM scheme lets you use downloaded files on one computer, transfer to an MP3 player 3 times, burn 3 CDs.
Not all of the same options are available in UK and Canada. Purchase price is about equal to list.

www.thoughtaudio.com

Free Download
Buy Download

45 free titles, 10 one dollar downloads, a continuing radio style program

MP3, WMA

Payment Method
PayPal, Credit Card, Wire Transfer, Purchase Order, Check, Money Order, Cash

Delivery
Many small files. Works with a download manager

The pay selection is $1 per title

Books are narrated by Michael Scott, the principal of the service

Good quality narration and production

Good download speed

ThoughtAudio.com collection consists mostly of nonfiction with spirituality and philosophy dominating. Michael Scott's narration is very good and the production quality superb. The MP3 files are recorded at lower bit rates (48-56Kbs) but such quality is more than enough for voice content and it makes for much faster downloads.

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