FREE/BARGAIN - Audiobooks - 2014

[tubemonkey]

Current Audiobook Specials -- updated 31 Dec 2014

This is a listing of current downloadable audiobook specials. Geographic restrictions apply, so specials may or may not be available for you. Also note that some of these companies sell multiple formats (MP3, M4B, CD, MP3 CD, etc), so be careful when placing an order.

Policy Change -- "free/bargain" threads are active during the current year. At the end of the year this thread is retired and a new one started. Previous threads are archived here: Audiobook Specials

Attention -- as of 30 Aug 2014, we have a dedicated audiobook forum: Everything Audiobooks
From here on out, please limit discussions in this thread to current offers only - thanks.


Free Monthly Audiobooks -- Dec 2014

• FREE - Amz Whispersync --> Phantom of the Opera -- exp 31 Dec --> details
• FREE - ChristianAudio --> Dawning of Indestructible Joy -- exp 31 Dec --> details
• FREE - Ford Audiobook Club --> A Christmas Carol -- exp 31 Dec --> details
• FREE - LearnOutLoud --> The Jefferson Bible -- exp 31 Dec --> details

Amazon Whispersync (55,262 titles) -- Audible Whispersync (55,691 titles)

• Free Audiobooks --> archives
• FREE - Monthly Audiobook --> Phantom of the Opera -- exp 31 Dec --> details

• other Audiobook Offers
• $0.99 - Selected Classics (104 titles) --> incl A Tale of Two Cities
• SALE - Reduced Price Audiobooks (92 titles) --> incl The Litigators
• $2.98 - How to Live -or- A Life of Montaigne --> details

Kindle Unlimited Narration (2,078 titles) -- KU Whispersync (9,077 titles)

• $9.99 - Monthly Subscription --> details
• FREE - 1 Free Audiobook > 30-day trial --> details
• FREE - 3 Free Audiobooks > 3-mo KU --> details

Audible (165,291 titles)

• Free Audiobooks --> 43 titles available
• FREE - Christmas Eve, 1914 --> details
• FREE - Til Morning's Light --> details
• FREE - Roger Ascham & King's Lost Girl --> details
• FREE - Legion: Skin Deep --> details
• FREE - The Hospital (Mountain Man) --> details
• FREE - Stories from the Guild Hunter Universe --> details

• other Audiobook Offers
• SALE - Audible Daily Deal --> a new deal every day
• SALE - Best Listens Under $10 (117 titles)

• SALE - The Saint (19 titles) --> details
• SALE - 2 books for 1 credit -- exp 01 Jan --> details
• FREE - The Snow Queen -- exp 31 Jan --> details / details

• Membership & Coupon Offers --> archives
• $14.95 - Monthly Subscription --> details
• FREE - Audible Promo #1 (1mo) -- 2 free books --> details
• FREE - Twit Promo #1 (1mo) -- 2 free books --> details

• FREE - Kin Unlim Promo #1 (3mo) --> details
• FREE - Audible Promo #2 (1mo) --> details
• FREE - Twit Promo #2 (1mo) --> details

• $3.00 - Audible Promo #3 (3mo) -- limited time --> details / details

Ambling Books (30,000+ titles) -- audio players

• FREE - The Ghosts of Ragged-Ass Gulch --> details
• FREE - Free Audiobooks (3,383 titles) --> details (mostly LibriVox)
• SALE - Inexpensive Audiobooks (4,560 titles) --> details
• SALE - Super Audiobook Sales (75 titles) -- limited time --> details

B&N Nook Audiobooks

• FREE - 2 Free Audiobooks (w/ Nook app download) -- exp 31 Jan --> details / details

Big Finish

• SALE - 12 Days of Big Finish -- exp 06 Jan --> details
• SALE - Doctor Who Audiobook Bundle -- exp 06 Jan --> details

• FREE - Doctor Who (9 titles)
• FREE - Holmes' Christmas Quest --> details
• FREE - Dark Shadows: Snowflake --> details
• FREE - Dorian Gray: Frostbite --> details

ChristianAudio (6,291 titles)

• Audiobook Offers
• FREE - Monthly Audiobook --> Dawning of Indestructible Joy -- exp 31 Dec --> details
• $4.98 - Select John Piper Titles (6 titles) -- exp 31 Dec --> details

• Membership Offers
• $14.95 - Monthly Subscription --> details
• FREE - 1 Free Audiobook > 30-day trial

Downpour (41,308 titles) -- history

• Weekly Audiobook Offers
• SALE - Weekend Spotlight --> check back every Friday
• $5.95 - Deal of the Week --> The Aeneid -- exp 04 Jan --> details
• $20.68 - Editor's Pick --> The BFG -- exp 04 Jan --> details

• other Audiobook Offers
• $5.95 - Black Mask (11 titles) --> details
• $5.99 - Tantor Spotlight (12 titles) --> details
• $6.00 - Simon & Schuster (18 titles) --> details
• 40% - James Patterson (12 titles) --> details
• SALE - Best Audiobooks of 2014 (92 titles) --> details
• SALE - PD James (22 titles) --> details

• SALE - Additional Deals (7 titles) --> details
• SALE - Debut Novels (27 titles) --> details
• SALE - Fall Movies (10 titles) --> details
• SALE - Quick Fiction (40 titles) --> details
• SALE - What's Hot (40 titles) --> details

• Membership & Rental Offers
• $12.99 - Monthly Subscription --> details
• INFO - Audiobook Rentals --> details

Holiday Specials --> archives

• TBA

Humble Bundle

• SALE - Doctor Who Audiobook Bundle -- exp 06 Jan --> details

Scribd Audiobooks (30,000+ titles)

• $8.99 - Monthly Subscription --> details
• FREE - Scribd 1-mo Promo / Scribd Extensions --> details
• FREE - Harlequin Promo > 3-mo new / 2-mo current --> details

Tantor Media (2,827 titles) -- GoodListens (companion website)

• FREE - Happy Holidays from Tantor -- exp unknown --> details
• $6.99 - $6.99 Downloads (220 titles) --> details
• SALE - Holiday Sale (318 titles) --> details

other Audiobook Offers

• FREE - Dave Ramsey --> Super Red Racer / Relating with Money --> details / details
• FREE - Author Websites --> TM Camp / JF Penn / more...
• $0.99 - LA Theatre Works --> Radio Plays (124 titles) --> details

other Free Audiobooks

• Audiobooks.com --> 1 Free Audiobook w/ 30-day trial --> details
• AudioBooks.org (9 titles) --> incl Robinson Crusoe / A Christmas Carol --> details
• GraphicAudio --> Cleansing Fire / Originally Human / Unmasked / Last Ride --> details
• LearnOutLoud (9,400+ titles) -->
• Library of America --> Ten Stories by Sherwood Anderson
• Listen to Genius (100+ titles) --> incl Fables / Poetry / Short Stories --> details
• Moody Collective --> Packing Light (after subscribing to newsletter) --> details
• Naxos AudioBooks --> Northanger Abbey / Call of the Wild / Famous People in History
• NoiseTrade (20+ titles) --> incl
• Random House (6 titles) --> incl Alice in Wonderland / Jack Reacher's Rules --> details
• SYNC --> closed - will reopen in May 2015 --> details
• ThoughtAudio / Michael Scott (98 titles) --> incl Don Quixote / War of the Worlds
• Wired for Books (20+ titles) --> incl Alice in Wonderland / Wizard of Oz --> details
• Zappos --> Tribal Leadership --> details

[tubemonkey]

Downpour Deal of the Week -- exp 07 Sep

• $5.95 - The Last Don -- Mario Puzo
• $3.95 - Tobacco Road -- Erskine Caldwell

[tubemonkey]

ChristianAudio Free Audiobook of the Month -- exp 30 Sep

• FREE - How Should We Then Live? -- Francis A Schaeffer

AudioFile Earphones Award Winner

As one of the foremost evangelical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis Schaeffer long pondered the fate of declining Western culture. In this brilliant book he analyzed the reasons for modern society’s state of affairs and presented the only viable alternative: living by the Christian ethic, acceptance of God’s revelation, and total affirmation of the Bible’s morals, values, and meaning.

How Should We Then Live? has become the benchmark for Christian worldview thinking today. This edition commemorates the 50th anniversary of L’Abri Fellowship, founded by Francis and Edith Schaeffer.

[tubemonkey]

Tantor Audio -- Mammoth Labor Day Sale -- Today Only! -- exp 01 Sep

• $4.99 --> all downloads (2,698 titles)

• $9.99 --> all MP3 CDs
• $6.99 ~ $14.99 --> all audio CDs

[tubemonkey]

Archive for Previous Audiobook Specials Threads

• Current Audiobook Specials --> Dec 2012 ~ Aug 2014

• Audiobooks - Sep 2014
  

[tubemonkey]

Whispersync for Voice Free Audiobook of the Month -- exp 30 Sep

• FREE - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea -- Jules Verne

The year 1866 was marked by a unique incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, and rumors agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, especially seafaring men. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the governments of several states on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter.

For some time past, vessels had been threatened by "an enormous thing": a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale. Then, Captain Nemo decided to allow his submarine, the Nautilus, to be drafted into service on a hunt ahead of its time.

[Froide]

Ford Audiobook Club Monthly Freebie Promotion for September 2014

• FREE (via GoodReads.com) - California: A Novel -- Edan Lepucki and Emma Galvin (Narrator)

The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable despite the isolation and hardships they face. Consumed by fear of the future and mourning for a past they can't reclaim, they seek comfort and solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt when Frida finds out she's pregnant.

Terrified of the unknown but unsure of their ability to raise a child alone, Cal and Frida set out for the nearest settlement, a guarded and paranoid community with dark secrets. These people can offer them security, but Cal and Frida soon realize this community poses its own dangers. In this unfamiliar world, where everything and everyone can be perceived as a threat, the couple must quickly decide whom to trust.

A gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which clashes between mankind's dark nature and irrepressible resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect the ones we love.

Product Details:

Audible Audio Edition
Listening Length: 12 hours and 26 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Audible.com Release Date: July 8, 2014
Whispersync for Voice: Ready
Language: English
ASIN: B00K88SQ7S

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by Froide

Ford Audiobook Club Monthly Freebie Promotion for September 2014

• FREE (via GoodReads.com) - California: A Novel -- Edan Lepucki and Emma Galvin (Narrator)

Thanks for this! Looks interesting, but after just finishing "Mockingjay" I might have to wait a while before I can handle any more dystopias. BTW, your link could use a tweak (try this).

skinmaan

[koland]

Neither link seems to work..

[skinmaan]

Originally Posted by koland

Neither link seems to work..

You sure? I just clicked on it and it worked fine.

https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/show/2668m

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

You sure? I just clicked on it and it worked fine.

https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/show/2668m

It "works" in the sense that the page should be there (the initial link is clearly an error), but it leads to a Goodreads page that says:

page unavailable

An unexpected error occurred. We will investigate this problem as soon as possible — please check back soon!

I've been getting that error every time I tried over the past few hours.

[koland]

Ok, figured out the Ford page, but haven't received a link via email that is required (says it may take 24 hrs):

first, join the Ford Audiobook group page:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show...audiobook-club
Second, put the book in question onto your shelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18774020-california
Third, THEN use the link above (the working one) to view the page that tells you that you need an email code:
https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/show/2668

[soondai]

Here's an offer for a free month of Audible Platinum (the 2 credit a month plan). It worked on my account that I cancelled last month (I don't know if the 2 credit Amazon link in the OP would have worked as well):

audible.com/twit2

cancel before a month is up unless you want to keep the plan of course.

[din155]

Originally Posted by soondai

Here's an offer for a free month of Audible Platinum (the 2 credit a month plan). It worked on my account that I cancelled last month (I don't know if the 2 credit Amazon link in the OP would have worked as well):

audible.com/twit2

cancel before a month is up unless you want to keep the plan of course.

Nice, thanks!

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by koland

Ok, figured out the Ford page, but haven't received a link via email that is required (says it may take 24 hrs):

first, join the Ford Audiobook group page:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show...audiobook-club
Second, put the book in question onto your shelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18774020-california
Third, THEN use the link above (the working one) to view the page that tells you that you need an email code:
https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/show/2668

Well, now I'm getting a Ford Audiobook page at the last link; however, it's giving me directions to put the book on the shelf, sign up, etc. Too many hoops to jump through, as I'm not a member of Goodreads.