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therogerclarkfanclub · 10 months
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If you enjoy westerns, or audiobooks, or Roger's voice (who doesn't 😁), you can now get Way of the Lawless from Audiobooks.com. This specific edition of the book is narrated by Roger himself, and it was previously available only from Roger's website, Unbridled Audio, though if you choose to, you can still get it from there.
You can go with Audiobooks.com's monthly subscription service or you can get the book on its own, either option will go for $14.95.
Listen to a sample:
Get Way of the Lawless from:
Audiobooks.com • Binge Books • Chirp Books • Google Play • Libro.fm • Rakuten Kobo • Scribd • StoryTel • Unbridled Audio
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Last year I joined the Today in Books substack. Its welcome email included a free trial to Audiobooks.com. And you know me. I’m always happy to have a nosy. Especially when it’s an alternative to Amazon. This is owned by Storytel which is a Swedish company. This trial came with – 30 days free exclusive access to monthly deals and sales 1 book 2 bonus VIP books They claim to have over three…
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lifeistheebubbles · 1 year
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YOOOOO! Finished ACOMAF! That was amazing and even better than the first one!!
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dollarsbag · 1 year
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Audiobooks.com 2023: Is It Better Than Audible? Check it out here!
Audiobooks.com 2023: Is It Better Than Audible? Check it out here!
Audiobooks.com 2023: Is It Better Than Audible? Check it out here! Ah, audiobooks. The perfect way to enjoy a good story or learn something new without having to worry about holding a book or finding a comfortable place to sit and read. For a long time, Audible has been the go-to audiobook provider, but a new contender has been gaining traction in recent years. Audiobooks.com is a…
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reimu · 8 months
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hello all the little people in my phone. how would you recommend access to audiobooks (software or website) that isn't audible?
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six-of-ravens · 7 months
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made myself feel better about the ads thing by cancelling 2 free trials that were going to start charging me and 2 yearly subscriptions I don't actually use.
now....I have until Feb 17 to write down all the Bon Appetit recipes I actually use lmao.
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sapphicbookclub · 13 days
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Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall
It is the year 1814 and life for a young lady of good breeding has many difficulties. There are balls to attend, fashions to follow, marriages to consider and, of course, the tiny complication of existing in a world swarming with fairy spirits, interfering deities, and actual straight-up sorcerers.
Miss Maelys Mitchelmore finds her entry into high society hindered by an irritating curse. It begins innocuously enough with her dress slowly unmaking itself over the course of an evening at a high-profile ball, a scandal she narrowly manages to escape.
However, as the curse progresses to more fatal proportions, Miss Mitchelmore must seek out aid, even if it means mixing with undesirable company. And there are few less desirable than Lady Georgianna Landrake—a brooding, alluring young woman sardonically nicknamed “the Duke of Annadale”—who may or may not have murdered her own father and brothers to inherit their fortune. If one is to believe the gossip, she might be some kind of malign enchantress. Then again, a malign enchantress might be exactly what Miss Mitchelmore needs.
With the Duke’s help, Miss Mitchelmore delves into a world of angry gods and vindictive magic, keen to unmask the perpetrator of these otherworldly attacks. But Miss Mitchelmore’s reputation is not the only thing at risk in spending time with her new ally. For the rumoured witch has her own secrets that may prove dangerous to Miss Mitchelmore’s heart—not to mention her life.
Genres: historical, urban fantasy, romance
Order from Blackwell's and get free worldwide shipping!
Listen to the book on audiobooks.com here!
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"Can a fictional video game like #RedDeadRedemption2 help you better understand the real drama of American history? With a little help, YES. I'm thrilled to partner with [Roger Clark] on my book RED DEAD'S HISTORY, coming out on Aug. 6."
Red Dead's History is set to release on August 6, 2024 and can be preordered from the following retailers:
Apple Books ✰ Audible ✰ Audiobooks.com ✰ AudiobooksNow.com ✰ AudiobookStore.com ✰ Barnes & Noble ✰ Binge Books ✰ Books-A-Million*✰ Chirp Books ✰ Everand ✰ Downpour ✰ Google Play ✰ Hoopla ✰ Libro.fm ✰ McMillan Publishers ✰ Overdrive + Libby ✰ Rakuten Kobo ✰ Target*
*Books-A-Million and Target only offer the hardcover edition of the book. For the audiobook edition, check the rest of the retailers on the list.
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Saturday linkdump, part the sixth
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On September 12 at 7pm, I'll be at Toronto's Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.
On September 14, I'm hosting the EFF Awards in San Francisco.
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I usually write this blog 5-6 days/week, but every now and again, I take a break, and when I do, I get massive link backlogs of stuff I want to write about, but lack the time to address in depth. When that happens, I turn my Saturday edition into a linkdump. Today, I present the sixth in the series – here's the other five:
https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/
Why was I offline and away from my blog? I went to the dirt rave. Yes, I was one of the 70,000+ people stuck in the mud at this year's Burning Man, and when I emailed my editor at the New York Times to say I might be late on the op-ed I was working on, she asked me to write about what this year's mud crisis meant:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/opinion/burning-man-flood-playa-climate-change.html
tl;dr:
Bad weather is normal at Burning Man (it's a feature, not a bug);
Mostly burners leapt to the occasion, which is what people almost always do in disaster situations;
This is the second Burning Man heavy weather year in a row;
The climate emergency is tipping the Black Rock Desert from "extremely challenging" to "impossible";
This isn't the last event, place and tradition that will have to be radically reconsidered in light of the climate emergency;
But now I'm home, in my hammock, with all the laundry done – just in time to leave again. I'm about to head back to my hometown of Toronto for a book launch. The Internet Con, my latest nonfiction (from Verso Books) came out last week, and I'll be appearing at Another Story Bookshop on Tuesday:
https://anotherstory.ca/events/29283
Internet Con is a "Big Tech disassembly manual." It explains how Big Tech got so big (lax anti-monopoly enforcement, which led to regulatory capture, which let Big Tech abuse our privacy, labor rights, and consumer rights), and how we can use interoperability so it's no longer Too Big to Fail, nor Too Big to Jail:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con
You can read a long excerpt from the book in Wired, which lays out some of the shovel-ready legislative, regulatory and technical proposals that are the book's main purpose:
https://www.wired.com/story/the-internet-con-cory-doctorow-book-excerpt/
You can also hear me read the whole introduction and first chapter of the audiobook on my podcast:
https://craphound.com/internetcon/2023/08/01/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation-audiobook-outtake/
That comes from the audiobook, a DRM-free, independent edition that I financed, produced and narrated myself. You can get the audiobook everywhere except Audible, Apple Books, and Audiobooks.com, all of which have mandatory DRM policies. You can also get it direct from me:
https://transactions.sendowl.com/products/78992826/DEA0CE12/purchase
The DRM-free ebook is available everywhere ebooks are sold (Kobo, Kindle, Nook, etc), as well as in my own DRM-free ebook store:
https://transactions.sendowl.com/products/78992801/9C4FC2B8/purchase
Verso's books are sold in bookstores around the world; you can support your local bookseller by buying it through Bookshop:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation-cory-doctorow/18771891?ean=9781804291245
If you'd like a signed copy, there's stock at Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245
Now, it was inevitable that I would do a book event for Internet Con in Toronto – I've never had a bad event there, and I love my hometown – but the timing of this event was driven by a non-book-related factor. Talking Heads is appearing together at TIFF, to support the re-release of Stop Making Sense, the greatest concert film in human history:
https://pluralistic.net/StopMakingSense
People often ask me what my favorite book is, and I always tell them that you should never trust people who have one favorite book, as it inevitably turns out to be The Bible, The Fountainhead, or Mein Kampf. But while I don't have a favorite book, I have a clear and unambiguous favorite band.
If I was forced to listen to no music other than Talking Heads for the rest of my life, I would be perfectly happy. Ecstatic, even. Throw in David Byrne, Tom Tom Club and Casual Gods and I probably wouldn't even notice anything missing.
There's a running joke among my Burning Man campmates that whenever I'm in charge of the music, I'm just shuffling Talking Heads rarities, and whenever someone puts on anything else, I demand to know which Talking Heads album it came from. Which is all to say: I have tickets for the Talking Heads event at TIFF and I could *not be more excited.*
Continuing on the Canadian theme, one of the annual highlights of Canadian media is the Massey Lectures, a series of public lectures given around the country and rebroadcast on CBC. These are always great, but recent years have been superb – Ron Deibert's 2020 series was unmissable:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/10/dark-matter/#citizenlab
This year's Masseys are shaping up to be the GOAT. They're presented by Astra Taylor, an activist rock-and-roller turned documentary filmmaker who is one of the founders of the Debt Collective, fighting for student debt cancellation. Everything Astra does is amazing and her profile on CBC Ideas gives some background on the role that unschooling played in making her the powerful activist she is today:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/astra-taylor-interview-2023-massey-lecturer-1.6959320
There's no question that things are messed up right now, but Astra and people like her shine out like beacons of hope. 17 years ago, self-described "democracy nut" Tom Stites gave one of the seminal lectures on the role news media play in democracy:
http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/03/guest-posting-is-media-performance-democracys-critical-issue/
17 years later – and from his perch as editor at the essential International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – Stites presents us a long-overdue, extremely pertinent followup: "Building Civic Energy is the Goal, Not Saving Old News Business Models":
https://banyanproject.coop/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Hope-College-speech-for-Banyan-website-1.pdf
Stites's intervention is extremely timely, because policymakers all over the world have made the mistake of thinking that Big Tech is stealing the news media's content, which is absolutely untrue. It is good, actually, to index news stories and let people discuss, quote from and link to news stories. News you're not allowed to talk about isn't news, it's a secret.
But Big Tech is stealing from news. They're not stealing content – they're stealing money. The Google/Apple duopoly rakes 30% off every subscription payment collected in an app. The Google/Meta duopoly rakes 51% out of every ad-dollar (and maintain that death-grip through creepy, privacy-invading surveillance ads). Meta and Twitter hold social media subscribers hostage, forcing publishers to pay to reach their own subscribers.
We don't want the news to be Big Tech's partners – we need them to be Big Tech's watchdogs. "Link taxes" and other profit-sharing arrangements between the media and tech cut against the civic energy Stites wants to build.
(You can read more about this – along with policy prescriptions for halting Big Tech's rent-extraction from the news – in "Saving the News From Big Tech," my EFF white-paper:)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech
If your spirits are lifted by stories of principled activists achieving important – and improbable – victories, you could do worse than to attend the EFF Awards on in San Francisco Sept 14 (I'm the emcee). This year, we're honoring Alexandra Elbakyan for her founding of Sci-Hub, the Library Freedom Project and the Signal Foundation:
https://www.eff.org/awards/effawards/2023
In more activist news: Mozilla produced a startling and astoundingly good – if demoralizing – report on the state of digital privacy and security in the automotive sector:
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/
Entitled, "It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy," the report reveals just how absolutely terrible the automotive sector is when it comes to privacy practices, collecting (and selling) (and giving away) information about your sex life, your geneology, your genetic characteristics, and your smell (no, seriously).
Their recommendations for which new car you should buy boil down to "don't buy a new car." I have been urging consumer research groups to release a report like this for a decade. There are whole categories of gadgets – like, say, "smart speakers" – that are unsafe at any speed. At a certain point, reviewers need to have the guts to say that every manufacturer in an entire sector is a dumpster fire and they should all be dragged in front of a firing squad – or at least a Congressional committee.
Cars, after all, are nightmares of privacy invasion and rent-extraction, the source of autoenshittification on a massive scale, a mobile form of technofeudalism:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon
The fact that cars score so badly on privacy is especially ironic given the campaign Big Car waged against the 2020 Massachusetts Right to Repair ballot initiative, in which car manufacturers held themselves out as the defenders of driver privacy from unscrupulous third parties who couldn't be trusted to handle the vast troves of data your car collects with every hour that God sends:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/03/rip-david-graeber/#rolling-surveillance-platforms
This is a familiar refrain: monopolists often claim that any check on their absolute authority over their users will expose those users to privacy risks. Apple has run a global ad-campaign claiming this, and while Apple does prevent Facebook from spying on iPhone owners, they also secretly spy on those customers in exactly the same way that Facebook used to, and lie about it:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar
It turns out that giant companies just aren't good proxies for their customers' interests, and that the power they amass through monopolization shouldn't be counted on as a source of user safety. Monopolists won't reliably defend user privacy – that job belongs to democratically accountable regulators. That's an argument I developed in detail with Bennett Cyphers in our EFF white-paper "Privacy Without Monopoly":
https://www.eff.org/wp/interoperability-and-privacy
That is, rather than getting privacy by "voting with your wallet," you need to get it by voting with your ballot. "The market" is an election that you vote in with dollars, which means that the people with the most dollars always win. When there are zero cars on the market that are safe to drive, you can't vote with your wallet by buying a good one.
On a related subject, the DOJ Antitrust Division has brought the most important tech anti-monopoly case of the century, charging Google with monopolizing search:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/technology/modern-internet-first-monopoly-trial-us-google-dominance.html
Part of the DOJ case turns on the fact that Google goes to extraordinary lengths to keep you from every trying another search engine, paying out more than $45 billion every year to be the default search on every device, program and service you might use. In other words, Google spends entire Twitter's worth of dollars every year, lighting it on fire to keep you from finding out about rivals.
Google argues that this is fine, actually, because these are only defaults, and users can dig through their settings to change their search engine. Sure, Google – and the first 20 search results you serve are only defaults, and it wouldn't matter if you were ordered to put them ten screens down, because users could always scroll to see them.
But search defaults aren't the only way that Google locks in searchers – and then harms us by invading our privacy. Google's ubiquitous Chrome browser ties Google's search to Google's invasive, nonconsensual, total surveillance. Chrome turned 15 this year and Google made a huge PR splash out of the anniversary:
https://blog.google/products/chrome/google-chrome-new-features-redesign-2023/
But all that puffery conspicuously failed to mention that Google had quietly rolled out its long-discredited, new surveillance technology, FLOC, which it pretended to kill in 2021:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/22/ihor-kolomoisky/#not-that-competition
FLOC is back, rebranded as the Topics API: this is a system for spying on you so advertisers can target you. Google is spinning this as a privacy improvement because it might someday replace "third party cookies," one of the creepiest web surveillance systems.
But as Ron Amadeo writes for Ars Technica, Chrome is the last major browser to support third party cookies – both Safari and Firefox block them by default. So Google is basically saying, "We are going to improve your privacy by changing how we spy on you, even though all our competitors don't do this kind of spying at all":
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/
This kind of gaslighting, where Google pisses in all our mouths and tells us it's raining, is the hallmark of a decrepit, arrogant, crapulent monopolist that needs to be shattered in the courts. Kudos to the DoJ for doing the people's business here – and kudos to DoJ antitrust boss Jonathan Kanter for promising that he will not go into corporate law when he finishes his stint in government.
The DoJ isn't the only public agency that's serving the American people. The FCC just announced proceedings to force cybersecurity labels for "smart" devices:
https://www.fcc.gov/consumer-governmental-affairs/fcc-proposes-cybersecurity-labeling-program-smart-devices
This is long overdue, and it's a welcome action from the FCC, which was hamstrung for years because cowardly Democratic senators joined with homophobic, libelous Republicans in blocking confirmation hearings for the amazing Gigi Sohn:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/15/useful-idiotsuseful-idiots/#unrequited-love
After years of abuse, Sohn bowed out. Now, Anna Gomez has been confirmed to fill that fifth FCC chair, turning the FCC into a fully operational battle station:
https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/senate-votes-approve-anna-gomez-5th-fcc-commissioner
The fact that there's all this great stuff going on in the administrative branch is easy to lose sight of amidst the circus of federal electoral politics, in which Donald Trump has retained his role as ringmaster and chief distractor.
Thankfully, we have expert Pantsless Emperor skewerers like Ruben Bolling around – his latest Tom the Dancing Bug revives his brilliant Calvin and Hobbes-inspired Trump gag:
https://boingboing.net/2023/09/06/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-calvinesque-and-hobbesian-look-at-taking-a-mug-shot.html
Well, that's me signing off for the weekend – I've got to pack for my flight to Toronto. If you're looking for more weekend fun, check out the trailer for Fractured Veil, the video game my old pal Chris DiBona has been working on for seven years and which is heading for Steam early access next month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjNd3QQnENU
Just watch it. I mean. Wow.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/09/nein-nein/#everything-is-miscellaneous
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Image: Roel Schroeven (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/roelschroeven/45413895
CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
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orriculum · 11 months
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The Orc from the Office audiobook is OUT TODAY! 
Yall I never thought I would make it this far and feel like a real actual author, i feel like i tried forever to write serious, smart High Literature (TM) and that was killing me but then NOW I HAVE AUDIOBOOKS OF THE WEIRD STORIES I WROTE FOR MY FRIENDS, 
Available on audible.com & audiobooks.com!!!!
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ml-nolan · 5 months
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The Love, Lies, and Cryptids audiobook is ALIIIIIIVE
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If you'd love to hear me try to sound alternately cranky, silly, and (hopefully) kinda sexy, I've included a list of places where you can listen! And, if you have Spotify Premium, it's on there, too.
LISTEN TO A SAMPLE AT THE LINK BELOW:
Audible
Google Play
Libro.fm
Kobo/Walmart
Spotify [Included in Premium]
NOOK Audiobooks
Scribd
Chirp
Storytel
Audiobooks.com
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therogerclarkfanclub · 6 months
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I normally wait until an audiobook is released so I can make a post but this one is too good to pass up. Might as well start hyping it up now. 🎉
Roger is going to narrate this audiobook, and I mean, no shit??? No one else is more fitting to narrate anything with the words Red Dead on the title. This book will be available in August of 2024 in paperback, hardcover, and of course, audiobook format.
Overview:
Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. Beloved by millions, they’ve been widely acclaimed for their realism and attention to detail. But how do they fare as recreations of history? In this engaging book, award-winning American history professor Tore Olsson takes up that question and more. Weaving the games’ plot and characters into an exploration of American violence between 1870 and 1920, Olsson shows that it was more often disputes over capitalism and race, not just poker games and bank robberies, that fueled the bloodshed of these turbulent years. As such, this era has much to teach us today. From the West to the Deep South to Appalachia, Olsson reveals the gritty and brutal world that inspired the games, but sometimes lacks context and complexity on the digital screen. Colorful, fast-paced, and dramatic, Red Dead’s History sheds light on dark corners of the American past for gamers and history buffs alike.
Currently, Red Dead's History is available for PRE-ORDER from:
Apple Books ✰ Audible ✰ Audiobooks.com ✰ AudiobooksNow.com ✰ AudiobookStore.com ✰ Barnes & Noble ✰ Binge Books ✰ Chirp Books ✰ Everand ✰ Downpour ✰ Google Play ✰ Hoopla ✰ Libro.fm ✰ Overdrive + Libby ✰ Rakuten Kobo
At the moment not too many retailers are taking preorders for this one, but I'm sure that will change as the book nears release.
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starblaster · 2 years
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So you want to read the Space Odyssey series by Arthur C. Clarke?
Here are a couple different ways you can read them right now, for free, from your computer or phone:
Archive.org (no library card required): if you don’t already have an account on archive.org, the Internet Archive, register for one. Once you have an account, you will be able to check out and read the following books:
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey Two
2061: Odyssey Three
3001: The Final Odyssey
OverDrive (library card may be required): if you have a library card with a participating library, you can use it to access all four Space Odyssey books here.
YouTube (no library card or account creation required, but video(s) may still be subject to deletion): if you’re like me and you strongly prefer audiobooks, you can listen to 2001: A Space Odyssey here but, unfortunately, due to the fluctuating nature of YouTube video availability (whether the video gets taken down or it isn’t available in your country), I can’t guarantee that this link will work for everyone.
Scribd.com (free trial, must remember to cancel membership to avoid auto-billing): scribd.com has an audiobook of 2001 here and e-books of the other books, which you can find here.
Audiobooks.com (incomplete selection): for a free trial or one-time purchase, you can listen to the audiobook for 2061: Odyssey Three here but, unfortunately, audiobooks.com doesn’t carry the other Space Odyssey books.
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halogen2 · 5 months
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okay unfortunately i have to promote myself so here goes
my book IF I CAN GIVE YOU THAT is on sale from now until january 1st! the kindle ebook is $1.99 and the audiobook is $4.99 on audiobooks.com, libro.fm, google, b&n, and other audiobook e-tailers. its narrated by the wonderful avi roque!
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so nows a very good time to purchase!
kindle ebook
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dollarsbag · 2 years
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Audiobooks.com Review 2022, Check out here!
Audiobooks.com Review 2022, Check out here!
Audiobooks.com Review 2022, Check out here In the Audiobooks.com review, you’ll discover what the platform is all about, how to start using Audiobooks with its pros and cons, and the most important features. I will also discuss Audiobooks against other services for audiobooks like Audible One of the biggest rivals to Audiobooks.com as well as Amazon’s own response to this trend. Audiobooks.com…
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thebibliosphere · 2 years
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Okay, so because people keep asking, the places I am submitting the Phangs audiobooks to include:
24symbols, Anyplay, Apple, Audible, Audiobooks.com, AudiobooksNow, AudiobooksNZ, BajaLibros, BAM, Beek, BingeBooks, Bokus Play, Bookmate, Chirp, Cliq, Downpour, eStories, Google Play, Hummingbird, Instaread, Kobo, Leamos, Libro.FM, Milkbox, Nextory, Nook Audiobooks, Scribd, Storytel, Ubook, 3Leaf Group, Axiell, Baker & Taylor, Bibliotheca, Bidi, EBSCO, Follett, Hoopla, MLOL, Odilo, Overdrive (Libby), Perma-Bound, Ulverscroft and Wheelers.
Whether or not they all accept it, is out of my hands. But I think that's almost everywhere covered! It will also be available for direct purchase from me on my Payhip for folks who don't mind manually loading the files into their listening device themselves.
I will not be using Gumroad for any further works due to their stance on NFTs and their CEO's ensuing behavior on Twitter. Works already posted to Gumroad will remain there for the sake of existing customers so that in the event they need to download the file again, they don't have to pay for it.
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