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Here’s a free audio version of Craphound, the first short story published by Cory Doctorow, who is otherwise known for his new book, Little Brother, and for his work on the very popular BoingBoing blog. (As an fyi, you can find an alternative reading of the same story here.)
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The Alchemist has sold more than 65 million copies and been translated into 56 languages. A huge bestseller, in short. Here it is unabridged and free. I am not sure how long this offer will last. So I would grab it sooner than later — and while you’re at it, don’t forget to look through [...]
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Here’s a quick one while I am away on some unexpected business…
Over at the Internet Archive, you can find George Orwell’s classic, 1984, available as a free audio book. As you’ll see, the recording is professionally done. You can download the full zip file here. Or alternatively you can get the individual mp3 files, or [...]
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Horror/sci-fi fans, here you go… Scott Sigler’s new and very well-reviewed thriller, Infected, can be downloaded for free via podcast (iTunes - Feed - Web site). Or you can get it in hardback for $16.47, which I’m not discouraging you from doing.
With the links above, you can download more free books from Sigler. But, I [...]
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Right in time for National Poetry Month (here in the US), Don from Classic Poetry Aloud (iTunes - Feed - Web Site) has highlighted mp3s of classic poems. You can download them for free. And we’ve also added them to our growing Free Audio Books Collection. Many thanks to Don for the great work.
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Today, we have a guest feature by Don from Classic Poetry Aloud (iTunes - Feed - Web Site), a place where you can find a great lineup of poetry podcasts. We welcome other guest contributors. So, if you’re interested, just email us. Take it away (and thanks) Don…
The internet has given poetry new scope and [...]
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This is a book that needs no introduction, but we will give it a short one anyway. Published in serial format between 1918 and 1920, James Joyce’s Ulysses was initially reviled by many and banned in the US and UK until the 1930s. Today, it’s widely considered a classic in modernist literature, and The Modern [...]
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Librivox is on a roll lately. Since December, the provider of free, public domain audiobooks has released a number of classic works on audio. Below, we’ve listed some of the highlights, which we’ve also included in our AudioBook Podcast Collection. (Here, you’ll also find free audiobooks by other providers.) For Librivox’s complete catalogue, click here.
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Here’s one for fans of horror, sci-fi and hardboiled fiction. Well Told Tales (iTunes - Feed - Web Site) brings you a series of “audio tales” from the pulp tradition. Each story runs somewhere between 15 and 35 minutes, and they’re produced with an eye towards quality. The makers of this podcast select good short [...]
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Let me serve up a quick few bits of audio for the holiday.
Let’s start with a free podcast of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Written in 1843, Dicken’s tale remains one of the most popular Christmas stories of all time. It gave us the indelible characters of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of [...]
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Joseph Conrad would be turning 150 years old, and to mark the occasion, The Guardian has taken a good look back at the Polish-born writer who wrote some of England’s finest novels, even though English was his third language. (Polish and French were his first two.) Conrad’s masterpiece, of course, is The Heart of Darkness [...]
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Podcasting is a new form of media distribution that’s done a good job of reviving old forms of media, particularly old radio shows. In the past, we’ve pointed you to several old radio broadcasts, including Orson Welles’ famous 1938 radio drama that led many Americans to hunker down in basements, desperately hoping to avoid an [...]
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Back in June, we highlighted the release of James Joyce’s Ulysses in free audiobook format. Ulysses stands as Joyce’s most important work, and for some, it’s most the important work published in the English language during the entire 20th century. Despite Ulysses‘ enormous stature, many readers still turn to Dubliners, a collection of 15 short [...]
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iTunes is serving up a freebie for audiobook fans. Written by Brad Meltzer, The Millionaires runs close to 15 hours. Publishers Weekly calls it “a fast-paced, fresh-scrubbed tale of financial adventure.” Download it here, and check out our larger collection of free audiobook podcasts. (Source: Boing Boing)
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This is just a quick note to let you know that we “re-orged” the Audiobook Podcast Collection. The list, which had become a bit unwieldy, is now broken down by genre: Literature/Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. And, within these categories, the texts are organized by the author’s name. Hopefully this all makes the collection easier to [...]
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Here’s a quick old time radio treat: Way back when, somewhere in the golden days, the NBC University Theater aired a dramatic radio broadcast of three Edgar Allan Poe stories, including the “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “Nosology.” Have a listen. (Source)
If vintage radio is your thing, then [...]
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Here’s a quick heads up: Stephen Colbert’s new book - I Am America (And So Can You!) - will hit the streets on October 9. However, if you’re really champing at the bit, you can download the book early, starting today, in audiobook format. The book is narrated by Colbert himself, which is a perk, [...]
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American Rhetoric has compiled its list of the top 100 American speeches, all of which can be conveniently accessed as mp3 files. Most of the speeches listed here are known for their eloquence, and many for the pivotal role they played in effecting major political and social change. The compilation lets you listen to F.D.R. [...]
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Thanks BoingBoing for spotting this one: Utopod (iTunes - Feed - Web Site) is a free French-language podcast, created by Lucas Moreno and and Marc Tiefenauer, that offers readings of fantasy and sci fi stories written by noted authors across the Francophone world. New episodes come out once every 2-3 weeks, and it’s not too [...]
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Today, by popular demand, we’re running an updated version of one of our more popular posts to date. Enjoy…
At hastened speeds during the past year, we have seen book lovers recording homegrown audiobooks and posting them on sites like Librivox (see our collection of free audiobooks here). For obvious copyright reasons, these audio texts largely [...]
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The Guardian Books Podcast has started offering an audiobook version of the young adult novel Wolf Brother as a serial podcast. The story is the first in a series of books by Michelle Paver called Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. It makes good audio since it’s gripping and not hard to follow (or get back into [...]
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Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – It’s a major work of the Enlightenment, a book that shaped how we moderns write history (and, for that matter, how we aspire to write in the English language), and it’s now available as a free podcast thanks to Librivox. Or at least [...]
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This is a book that needs no introduction, but we will give it a short one anyway. Published in serial format between 1918 and 1920, James Joyce’s Ulysses was initially reviled by many and banned in the US and UK until the 1930s. Today, it’s widely considered a classic in modernist literature, and The Modern [...]
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While our collection of foreign language lessons podcasts has been getting a fair amount of love and attention lately, we’ve been sprucing up our directory of audio book podcasts.
To this list of English-language classics, we’ve added three new classics by Jane Austen — Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey — all of which are byproducts [...]
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There are some early signs that publishers and booksellers may be seeing the light.
Until recently, the book world applied an irrational logic to downloadable audiobooks and podcasts. As we noted back in February, the paper version of the bestselling business book, The Long Tail, ran consumers $16.47 on Amazon. And yet the cheaper-to-produce audio version [...]
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