audiobooks

The quality of an audiobook truly hinges on its narrator. The best ones use their voice talents and training to deliver the feeling behind the author's intent. Here, a writer explains what goes into audiobooks -- and why they can boost an author's audience.

Barnes and Noble is offering free MP3 downloads of nine audiobooks. The audiobooks are short stories by authors that include The Babysitter's Code by Laura Lippman, Great Day: An Unabridged Story from Armegeddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut, and Merrano of the Dry Country by Louis L'Amour. Tom...

One intriguing feature of Amazon's new Kindle 2, which was unveiled recently, is text-to-speech. The digital reading device is capable of reading, in a variety of synthetic voices, any text shown on the display. This has sparked a controversy in the publishing community because audiobooks have...

Every day, WalletPop will be bringing you information about a fantastic freebie. Like what you see? Check back tomorrow for more! From audible.com: To celebrate the announcement of Zune's compatability with Audible, we're proudly making Dean Koontz' Black River available as a FREE download....

Every day, WalletPop will be bringing you information about a fantastic freebie. Like what you see? Check back tomorrow for more!If you haven't already read Thomas Friedman's bestseller The World is Flat, you should. From now until August 4th, you can download the audiobook version totally free on...

In an effort to lure customers away from more established e-commerce sites Amazon.com and BN.com, the new Borders.com is offering a free audiobook download of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild. You can listen to it on your computer, burn it onto a CD, or put it on your iPod or other MP3 player. That's a...