Audiobooks Nora Roberts
Audible Service Review by franYo
Audiobooks present a great way to extend your reading and learning opportunities: they make it possible to avail yourself of either some entertainment or education while commuting, exercising, traveling, doing housework… This convenience, however, seems to be reserved for those with deeper pockets only: $50 price tags, often even more, are a common occurrence with audiobooks distributed on CDs, and even downloadable content does not lag far behind. Fortunately, there is a solution to the problem: meet Audible.
Audible, Inc.(since January 2008 a subsidiary of Amazon.com) is probably the No.1 provider of premium digital audio information and entertainment on the Internet. Audible specializes in the spoken experience, providing digital audio editions of books, newspapers and magazines, original programming, and TV and radio subscriptions.
Audible’s main advantage lies in it’s membership plans. Basically, in exchange for a commitment on your part to buy at least one audiobook (or some other equally valued audio program) per month, you get your audio entertainment at prices that are in range with printed paperback books.
Here’s how this works: as a member, you will receive a certain amount of credits each month in exchange for a monthly fee. The credits are used to purchase audio content, which is then downloaded and played back on personal computers, CDs, or AudibleReady® computer-based and wireless mobile devices.
Currently, you can choose between two membership plans: Audible Gold and Audible Platinum.
With Audible Gold you get one credit per month for which you are charged $14.95 monthly fee. The credit can be used to purchase almost any audiobook available in Audible’s library (some rare exceptions apply) or any other audio program. If you sign up for the annual plan you get two months of membership for free and 12 credits all at once. The price of a credit in this case is $12.46 (17% off).
Audible Platinum plan is aimed toward more demanding listeners. Here you get two credits per month for a $22.95 fee (or $11.47 per credit). Again, signing up for the annual plan will get you two months free in which case the price of a single credit drops to $9.56.
The main benefit of Audible membership are, without a doubt, the savings. For one credit (which can cost you from $9.56 to $14.95, depending on the plan and the length of your commitment), you can get pretty much any audiobook or other audio program from Audible’s huge library. Seeing how plenty of audiobooks are priced at up to $70 (or more, on occasion), it’s clear there are substantial savings to be made on a single audio program.
Furthermore, as a member you get 30% off any additional items you buy at the Audible store, a free audio newspaper, plus there will be special e-mail offers featuring even more savings.
Audible members currently have over 50,000 audio programs to choose from. These include digital audiobooks from dozens of genres such as mysteries and thrillers, sci-fi and fantasy, romance, history, literary fiction etc. All the popular authors such as Nora Roberts, James Patterson, Stephen King… are included and represented with their entire backlists. If you are more into classics you’ll find everything from Shakespeare to Tolstoy to Hemingway. There are thousands of titles on business, education, self help, health & fitness, religion & spirituality, science & technology, language instructions… and much more.
In addition to audiobooks, Audible also offers newspaper subscriptions such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The New Yorker… to mention just a few. You can buy a single issue or subscribe to future issues.
Members can also purchase or subscribe to radio shows and podcasts such as This American Life, Car Talk, The Ricky Gervais Show, In Bed With Susie Bright… and many more.
To sweeten the deal for new members even further, Audible is offering special introductory deals for both plans. Currently they look like this: if you sign up for the Gold plan you get 50% off the first 3 months of membership — that’s 3 audiobooks for $7.49 each. Audible Platinum, on the other hand, offers a free 14-day trial so you can evaluate the service properly before making a commitment. You will be allowed to download 2 audiobooks of your choice for no charge — which you will be able to keep even if you decide against retaining your membership.
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Audiobook: The Search by Nora Roberts
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Live From Bonnaroo Music Festival 2002 $24.98 The stage of Tennessee jam band festival Bonnaroo is an unlikely setting for the year’s most important blues recording, but young firebrands North Mississippi Allstars pulled off a creative coup this June with their Hill Country Revue. The concert teamed patriarch R.L. Burnside and his guitarist and rapper sons, the late Othar Turner’s fife and drum band, the Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson, and ecce… |
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The Great War: Classical And Popular Selections From The Time Of World War I (National Public Radio Milestones Of The Millennium) $7.99 The first two-thirds of this disc is a fascinating cram course in concert music around the time of World War I. The programmer has put together some fascinating juxtapositions–for example, Strauss’s Rosenkavalier leads almost seamlessly into Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, and Schoenberg sounds out of context with everybody (including Berg). The selections are all short, and performance quality r… |
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Classic Love $16.98 Elgar’s Salut d’amour performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Davis opens this two-CD set. After that, we go on a bumpy ride over performances of drastically varying quality. The “Poco Allegretto” from Brahms’s Symphony No. 3 under Christoph von Dohnányi and the Cleveland Orchestra is breathtaking. Throughout the program there are a number of bite-sized editions of selections app… |
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Julie & Julia $4.64 Synopsis: 0Item Type: BLU-RAY DVD MovieItem Rating: PG13Street Date: 12/08/09Wide Screen: yesDirector Cut: noSpecial Edition: noLanguageENGLISHForeign Film: noSubtitlesnoDubbed: noFull Frame: noRe-Release: noPackaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas…. |
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Montana Sky $6.62 Three half-sisters must live together for a year and fend off saboteurs so they can inherit their father’s cattle ranch.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: UNRelease Date: 7-AUG-2007Media Type: DVD… |
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Michael (Snap Case) $3.98 Tabloid reporters go to investigate reports that an angel is living in Iowa and imagine their surprise when they indeed do find an angel.Genre: Feature Film-ComedyRating: PGRelease Date: 8-FEB-2005Media Type: DVD… |
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Spellbound $10.48 Leave it to number-one bestselling author Nora Roberts to spin a tale that blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy, modern-day mishaps and ancient curses, obsession and undying passion. She’ll have you cheering for love to win the day as a man and woman discover just how deep their bond lies – and how some dreams are meant to be. Spellbound follows world-famous photographer Calin Farr… |
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The Witching Hour (Playaway Adult Fiction) $45.99 A kingdom is plagued by tragedy until a wizard-godâs spell brings forth a courageous and beautiful young woman who must follow her heart in love and follow her destiny in battle⦅ |
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Celebrity In Death $14.00 Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she’s managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating The Icove Agenda, a film based on one of her famous cases. It’s a little spooky seeing the actress playing her, who looks almost like her long-lost twin. Not as unsettling, though, as seeing the actress who plays Peabody drowned in the lap pool on the roof of the direc… |
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Moon Dance (Vampire for Hire #1) $3.99 Mother, wife, private investigator…vampire. Six years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire. Now the world at large thinks Samantha has developed a rare skin disease, a disease which forces her … |
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