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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.

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.

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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.

www.gutenberg.org

Free Download


About 700 audio titles,

MP3, Ogg, m4a, spx, wav

Payment Method

Delivery
Many small files to download. Works with a download manager.

Good quality recording

OK download speed

Some audiobooks are computer generated

Michael Hart, the inventor of e-books started project Gutenberg in 1971. In 1990 Gutenberg added audiobooks to their site. It's all Public Domain texts. You will find classics of all kinds, from Aesop to Tolstoy, and from Beowulf to Poe. There are currently over 200 human narrated titles, the rest are computer generated. The human narration quality is good. Some files are of lower quality, for decreased size, but more than sufficient for voice reproduction. Project Gutenberg started free books on the net, and is still instrumental in production and distribution of free e-, and audio books.

www.librivox.org

Free Download


About 1,000 titles so far

128kbps or 64kbps MP3; ogg vorbis; iTunes podcast

Payment Method

Delivery
Many small files or one large zip file of entire book. Works with a download manager.

Good quality recording

Good download speed

Books read by volunteers, service principals; audio plays.

LibriVox was created in 2005 by Hugh McGuire. Its mission is to make all public domain works of literature available as audiobooks. LibriVox has a volunteer project where anybody can volunteer to read an audiobook. Some foreign language books are available.

etc.usf.edu/lit2go

Free Download


Over 900 titles

MP3

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Delivery
Many small files for larger works, often on different web pages making it hard to download.

Good download speed

Good quality recording

Read by several very good readers

Lit2Go is a project of Florida Center for Instructional Technology and University of South Florida, College of Education, funded by Florida Department of Education, and Bureau of Instruction and Innovation. The extensive collection consists of most texts required in high school education including textbooks, works of fiction, poetry. The titles include anything from a short nursery rhyme to grade 12 textbooks to complete major works of world literature, and range in length from under one minute to many hours. Although it is not specified who the narrators are, the narration quality is superb. On download pages for every title there is such information as bibliographical information for source text, short abstract, reading level required for the text. There is also text and PDF versions of all works available for download. Downloading larger works can be tricky because the small chapter sized files are placed on separate web pages. The entire collection and a few extra titles is available on iTunesU.

www.literalsystems.org

Free Download


About 15 titles

MP3 and flac

Payment Method
Free

Delivery
Many small files for larger titles. Some titles are produced in collaboration with Loudit.org For those titles you can download mp3 from Loudit.org and .flac from LiteraSystems

Good quality recording and production.

Books read by volunteers with good selection and production.

Not all files are available in .flac

Literal Systems is a small but interesting project with high quality volunteer narration, and dedicated high quality production and recording. Literal Systems collaborates with several other free audiobook sites to produce and distribute their titles. Their recordings are available under Creative Commons copyright, with some restrictions such as non-commercial use.

www.netlibrary.org

Free Download
(Membership in participating library is required)

About 1,600 audio titles, About 6,000 e-books

WMA

Payment Method
Requires participating library\'s membership. Available in over 100 countries.

Delivery
One large file per title. Does not work with download manager.

Current titles, professionally recorded.

Recorded Books, Blackstone Audio, Books on Tape and other leading publishers.

NetLibrary has offered audiobooks since 2004. In order for you to access their collection, your local library has to be a member. If it is, you can log in, usually through your library's site, with your library card number, and 'check out' or download up to ten titles at a time.
All of NetLibrary's audiobooks are professionally recorded copyrighted books, provided by major publishers. All are in the form of WMA files that are encrypted with a PlaysForSure Subscription DRM protection scheme. This Digital Rights Management restricts how you can play and transfer the files. NetLibrary files can only be played for the length of the lending period, only on one computer, and only on 2 PFS Subscription compatible portable players. After lending period, the file will stop working, but the license can be renewed by logging into your account again.
All audiobooks come as one very large file per title. It can take a while to download, and you better make sure your player bookmarks or keeps the place on shut off.

www.podiobooks.com

Free Download


Over 150 finished titles

MP3, m4a

Payment Method

Delivery
Small chapter sized files. Works with a download manager

Books are read by the authors

Good quality recording.

128Mb MP3

Donations to the authors are encouraged

Podiobooks.com is a relative newcomer to the scene and yet already has a sizable collection. All the books are under Creative Commons license, meaning they have been released by their creators for free to the public. These are mostly fresh titles from lesser known authors.

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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