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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.

Booksfree.com

Rent CD, MP3/CD, paperback
CD Club

Over 13,000 CD and MP3/CD audio books; 79,000 books.

Payment Method
Credit Card, USA checking account

Delivery
Free shipping both ways, First class U.S. mail for audiobooks.

CD or MP3/CD

1 at-a-time

$19.99/mo

2 at-a-time

$24.99/mo

3 at-a-time

$33.99/mo

4 at-a-time

$39.99/mo

MP3/CD only

1 at-a-time$9.99/mo

2 at-a-time $15.99/mo

3 at-a-time$23.99/mo

4 at-a-time$31.99/mo

BooksFree is an interesting service. There is also a paperback service with prices ranging from $9.99 for 2 books at a time, to $37.99 for 12 at a time. The faster you send your books/CDs back, the faster you get the next order. 2 to 3 rotations a month might be possible.

JIGGERBUG.COM

Rent CD, Tape
Download Club

About 37,000 audiobooks on CD or MP3 CD
CD or MP3 CD

Payment Method
Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover

Delivery
Shipping only to US. Download content is DRM protected time restricted rental.

1 CD/Tape Rentals at a time

$14.95/mo

2 CD/Tape Rentals at a time
3 Downloads a Month

$24.95/mo

5 CD/Tape Rentals at a time
6 Downloads a Month

$39.95/mo

6 Downloads a Month

$24.95/mo

Jiggerbug.com has a nice selection and a few options for accessing it. DRM restrictions for downloaded books are severe, and downloads amount to renting, not purchasing.

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.

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