August 27, 2020

Get Access to Over 11,000 Audiobooks with Audible Plus

A subscription to Audible just got a whole lot more appealing! Audible has launched their brand-new all-you-can-listen-to service called Audible Plus! We’ve been hoping for something like this for a while, and now if you’re an Audible member you get access to a library of over 11,000 audio books that you can download or stream at any time! Current Audible members are automatically upgraded to Audible Premium Plus where you’ll get your one audio book credit a month and you’ll also have access to their Plus Catalog of over 11,000 audio books that you can Play and Add to your library at any time.

Here’s Audible’s press release on Audible Plus:

All-You-Can-Listen Membership Option, Audible Plus, Rolls Out in Preview

And if you browse the audio book categories on the Audible.com site you can now filter by their “Plus Catalog”, so you can see the titles you’ll be automatically getting when you become an Audible Premium Plus Member:

Browse All Audible Categories

We’ve browsed around for a few hours and noticed that most of the titles are ones published directly by Audible.com or they’re published by the large independent audiobook publisher Blackstone Audio, which appears to have offered up a hefty portion of their audiobooks on Audible Plus. I’m sure the Audible Plus catalog will change and expand over time, but it’s already very impressive!

Audible Plus is eventually going to be offered as a stand-alone subscription service for $7.95/month. But you won’t get your monthly audio book credit if you’re subscribed to only Audible Plus. And that monthly Audible credit can be applied to the hundreds of thousands of audiobooks available on Audible. If you want to dive into Audible Plus, sign up for a free Audible trial today:

Get an Audible Free Trial Now Featuring Audible Plus

Here are just a few of the most popular audio books currently available in the Audible Plus Catalog. You can listen to all these titles now for free with a subscription to Audible Premium Plus:

1984 by George Orwell

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Complete Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom

The Confidence Gap by Russ Harris

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

The Anatomy of Peace, Expanded Second Edition by The Arbinger Institute

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible by Brian Tracy

The Bulletproof Diet by Dave Asprey

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery by Chogyam Trungpa

And over 11,000 more free titles to stream with Audible Plus! We’re gonna be adding new titles to our Audible library for days! 🙂

March 31, 2018

Unlimited Audiobooks Subscription from Scribd

I’ve had a little bit of a revelation recently. That revelation being unlimited audiobooks services! Like many fans of audio books I’ve been a subscriber to Audible.com for years, getting my one credit per month for $14.95 and amassing a sizable library of audio books over the past decade.

Earlier this year the popular e-book and audiobook subscription service Scribd opened up their subscription service to offer unlimited e-books and audiobooks for $8.99/month after a 30 day free trial. I was skeptical of the selection I could get, but then I started browsing around. On Scribd you can browse around without having to create an account or log in to see the different audio books they have to offer. It’s easier to browse their offerings on a desktop or laptop computer, but you can also browse on a mobile phone. And you can search for specific audio books on their site as well, sorting results by “Everything” or just “Books” or “Audiobooks”. I decided to subscribe and after subscribing I’ve now got unlimited access to 90,000 audio books and 900,000 eBooks! Check it out for yourself:

Browse and Get Access to 90,000 Audio Books on Scribd

Scribd works with almost all the major audio book publishers amounting to over 50,000 titles from the following publishers:

Penguin Random House Audio (9600 Titles)
HarperAudio (4200 Titles)
Simon & Schuster Audio (2800 Titles)
Hachette Audio (1600 Titles)
Macmillan Audio (700 Titles)
Tantor Audio (9500 Titles)
Recorded Books (9000 Titles)
Brilliance Audio (8100 Titles)
Christian Audio (1800 Titles)
Oasis Audio (1600 Titles)
Zondervan Audio (1600 Titles)
Highbridge Audio (1400 Titles)
Naxos Audiobooks (800 Titles)
Thomas Nelson Audio (500 Titles)
Listen & Live Audio (500 Titles)
Gildan Audio (400 Titles)
L.A. Theatre Works (300 Titles)
Made for Success Audio (300 Titles)
Audio Holdings (300 Titles)
Better Listen Audio (200 Titles)
Penton Overseas Audio (130 Titles)
New World Library (40 Titles)
Berlitz Audio (30 Titles)

Once I had joined and was into my Scribd account, I started browsing the categories of the site. I began adding dozens of audio books to my saved library, and it was a bit like the first time I added streaming movies to my Netflix queue or starting listening to any album I wanted to on a streaming music service like Spotify. I wasn’t just creating a wish list of audio books I would someday like to buy, but I was making a list of audio books that I could access and listen to as much (or as little) as I wanted to immediately! And that’s what I’ve been doing since I subscribed last month. I’ve been trying out new releases along with audio books that used to be in my Audible Wish List, and I’ve also listened to titles that I might’ve never have purchased on Audible.

When it came to listening, I found the Scribd app on iOS to be very user friendly and assume that Android is the same experience. The titles are divided up by chapters and the app bookmarks your place wherever you’ve left off listening on your desktop or mobile app. On your phone you can stream audio books over your mobile network or download them on a WiFi connection for offline listening. The app specifies how large the files are for storing on your phone.

While I’m still an Audible.com subscriber since it has the largest selection of audio books at about 180,000 with many titles I can only get there, I’ve been impressed by Scribd’s selection of 90,000 audio books. Some publishers not currently offered on Scribd include Blackstone Audio, Nightingale-Conant, Pimsleur, Phoenix Audio, Sounds True, The Great Courses, Hay House, AudioGO, and, of course, they don’t have the titles published exclusively by Audible Studios (which includes about 30,000 audio books).

After looking around I discovered Scribd is not the only unlimited audiobooks subscription service currently. Here are a few others:

Playster.com – Has 100,000+ audiobooks available unlimited for $14.95/month. They have apps for iOS and Android, but their app is not as well reviewed as Scribd.

Otto Radio – I think they started as a radio and podcast app on iOS, but now have 55,000 audio books with two plans:
– Otto Select is $9.99 a month for unlimited access to 20,000+ Audio books.
– Otto Premium is $14.99 a month for everything included in the Select plan, plus one premium audio book per month.

And if you’re looking for more a la carte options or one audio book per month subscriptions then you can try these:

Audible Free Trial Offer:
Get your first 30 days of the Audible membership plan free, which includes two free audiobook credits. After your 30 day trial, your membership will renew each month for just $14.95 per month so you can continue to receive one audiobook credit per month plus members-only discounts on all audio purchases. 180,000 Audio Books available!

Downpour Audio Books – Owned by our friends at Blackstone Audio, members get 1 Credit per month for $12.99 per month along with saving up to 70% off retail prices for members.

Kobo Audio Books – The popular eBook platform also features one audio book per month for $9.99/month.

Audiobooks.com – Offers an impressive 100,000 audio books with a free book and trial before it is $14.95 for one audio book per month.

Google Play Audiobooks – And with the growth in the audio book market, Google decided it was their turn to jump in, offering no subscriptions, but audio books for sale a la carte at discounts. They launched in January with audio books in their Google Play Books app for both Android and iOS.

LearnOutLoud.com Audiobooks for Sale – And we offer 10,000 educational and inspirational audio books to download or stream on MP3 audio.

You can also purchase audio books through Amazon.com (which owns Audible) and iTunes (which Audible distributes to). There is also the ability to get audio books through libraries with Hoopla and Overdrive. Many options, but we recommend trying:

90,000 Audio Books with a 30 Day Trial to Scribd

August 20, 2011

L.A. Theatre Works Plays for Only $4.95

We currently have a special deal from L.A. Theatre Works. For a limited time download any of their plays for just $4.95.

L.A. Theatre Works produces professionally recorded versions of hundreds of classic and contemporary plays featuring well known stage & screen actors including Richard Dreyfuss, Laurence Fishburne, Ed Asner, and hundreds of other great actors. The plays have been featured on public radio across the United States, and we’re now pleased to offer over 250 of these plays as a la carte downloads:

Browse Over 250 Plays on Audio Download from L.A. Theatre Works for just $4.95

And here are some classic plays they’ve put on:

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Brand New Production!)

The Grapes of Wrath (Dramatized) by John Steinbeck, Tony Award-winning adaption by Frank Galati

Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

A Lesson Before Dying by Romulus Linney, based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Oedipus the King by Sophocles

The Misanthrope by Moliere

Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward

Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon

December 15, 2010

50 Stocking Stuffers For Under $20

Still don’t know what to get a friend or family member for Christmas? We’ve got a great (and a bit biased…) suggestion: Audiobooks. Why are audiobooks such great gifts? Because they don’t require the recipient to take any extra time out of his or her day. They can just pop the audiobook on while driving to work, exercising, etc. and each time they’ll think of you and thank you for making their commute or workout a little more interesting.

To help you out in finding an affordable stocking stuffer we’ve put together all of our titles on sale for less than $20 in LearnOutLoud.com’s Audiobook Outlet. Here you can browse titles by category that are Under $5.00, Under $10.00, Under $15.00, and Under $20.00. Find a great affordable gift in the LearnOutLoud.com’s Outlet:

LearnOutLoud.com Bargain Bin Outlet

Also if you missed out last newsletter be sure to checkout our “2010 Audio Book Gift Guide” which features almost 100 of the best audio books released in 2010:

2010 Audio Book Gift Guide

We’ve also put together this list of the 50 best stocking stuffers available for under $20. Along with being available on Audio CD, many of these are also available on Audio Download.

Arts & Entertainment:
A Life in Comedy by Garrison Keillor
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Live in Concert by Douglas Adams
The Woman I Was Born to Be by Susan Boyle
Put on Your Crown by Queen Latifah
Tinsel Tales: Favorite Christmas Stories from NPR
The Story of Classical Music by Darren Henley

Other Notable Releases:
Idiots Unplugged by Glenn Beck
Speak Spanish with Confidence by Angela Howkins
Putting Out of Your Mind by Dr. Bob Rotella
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
Aristotle by Thomas C. Brickhouse
Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman

Get a great little gift for a loved one this holiday season to aid them in their lifelong learning!

December 9, 2010

2010 Audio Book Gift Guide

Looking for some great holiday gifts? At LearnOutLoud.com we’ve assembled a list of the best new and most popular audio book releases from 2010. You can check out all of our new releases here:

All 2010 Audiobook New Releases

All the audio books on our list are available on Audio CD and are in stock and ready to ship from LearnOutLoud.com. And many of them are available on Audio Download. No matter who you’re giving gifts to this year, you’re sure to find an audio book they’ll enjoy and learn from. To make it easy, we’ve divided this list of the best new releases from 2010 into categories. We’ve picked a selection of potential audio book gifts from our most popular categories. Here is a selection of great audio book gifts from the categories of Self Development, Business, and Religion & Spirituality:

Self Development Audio Book Gifts:

1. Manifesting Change by Mike Dooley

2. The Essence of Happiness by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

3. The Power by Rhonda Byrne

4. Chicken Soup for the Soul Series by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen

5. Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done by Ian Ayres

6. The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor

7. The Genius in All of Us by David Shenk

8. What Would Napoleon Hill Do? by Napoleon Hill

9. Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success by John Wooden

10. The Fearless Heart by Pema Chodron

11. The Shadow Effect by Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, & Marianne Williamson

12. Relieve Stress with Medical Hypnosis by Steven Gurgevich

13. Women Food and God by Geneen Roth

14. Living in Favor, Abundance, and Joy by Joel Osteen

15. Living from the Overflow by Michael Beckwith

16. As Long as We Both Shall Live by Dr. Gary Smalley

17. The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely

18. Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Dr. Daniel Siegel

19. Click: The Magic of Instant Connections by Ori & Rom Brafman

20. The Courage to Be Free by Guy Finley

Business Audio Book Gifts:

1. Think and Grow Rich: Gold Standard Edition by Napoleon Hill

2. Sell Like a Pro by Dale Carnegie

3. The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working by Tony Schwartz

4. The Big Short by Michael Lewis

5. The Leader Who Had No Title by Robin Sharma

Religion & Spirituality Audio Book Gifts:

1. The Christmas Spirit by Joel Osteen

2. One Year Chronological Bible – NLT MP3 CD

3. The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis

4. Toward a True Kinship of Faiths by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

5. The Message Remix: Solo: An Uncommon Devotional MP3 CD

6. Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet by Deepak Chopra

7. What Good Is God? by Philip Yancey

8. Buddhism: A Beginner’s Guide to Inner Peace and Fulfillment by Jack Kornfield

9. Storm Warning by Billy Graham

10. The Art of Letting Go: Living the Wisdom of Saint Francis by Fr. Richard Rohr

Biographies as Audio Book Gifts:

1. Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 by Mark Twain

2. Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens

3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

4. Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

5. Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela

Arts & Entertainment Audio Book Gifts:

1. Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan

2. I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron

3. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth by Jon Stewart

4. They Call Me Baba Booey by Gary Dell’abate

5. A Life in Comedy by Garrison Keillor

Literature Audio Book Gifts:

1. Nemesis by Philip Roth

2. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris

3. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

4. The Neil Simon Collection: 10 Plays by Neil Simon

5. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

History Audio Book Gifts:

1. At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

2. American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H.W. Brands

3. Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester

4. NPR: The First 40 Years

5. The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by Evan Thomas

Politics Audio Book Gifts:

1. Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House by Richard Wolffe

2. Decision Points by George W. Bush

3. A Journey: My Political Life by Tony Blair

4. America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag by Sarah Palin

5. Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward

6. Pinheads and Patriots by Bill O’Reilly

7. Dismantling the Empire by Chalmers Johnson

8. Idiots Unplugged by Glenn Beck

9. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann & Mark Halperin

10. The Promise: President Obama, Year One by Jonathan Alter

Science Audio Book Gifts:

1. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow

2. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris

3. The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion by Herman Wouk

4. Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth by James D. Tabor

5. NPR Sound Treks: Animals & NPR Sound Treks: Birds

And you can check out 100s more in our 2010 new releases divided up by category:

Arts & Entertainment New Releases

Biography New Releases

Business New Releases

Education & Professional New Releases

History New Releases

Languages New Releases

Literature New Releases

Philosophy New Releases

Politics New Releases

Religion & Spirituality New Releases

Science New Releases

Self Development New Releases

Social Sciences New Releases

Sports & Hobbies New Releases

Technology New Releases

Travel New Releases

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December 15, 2009

50 Cheap Stocking Stuffers

Still don’t know what to get a friend or family member for Christmas? We’ve got a great (and a bit biased…) suggestion: Audiobooks. Why are audiobooks such great gifts? Because they don’t require the recipient to take any extra time out of his or her day. They can just pop the audiobook on while driving to work, exercising, etc. and each time they’ll think of you and thank you for making their commute or workout a little more interesting.

To help you out in finding an affordable stocking stuffer we’ve put together all of our titles on sale for less than $20 in LearnOutLoud.com’s Audiobook Outlet. Here you can browse titles by category that are Under $5.00, Under $10.00, Under $15.00, and Under $20.00. Find a great affordable gift in the LearnOutLoud.com’s Outlet:

LearnOutLoud.com Bargain Bin Outlet

We’ve also put together this list of the 50 best stocking stuffers available for under $20:

Arts & Entertainment:
Rabbit Ears Treasury of Christmas Stories
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Live in Concert by Douglas Adams
David Sedaris: Live for Your Listening Pleasure by David Sedaris

The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book by Chuck Norris
Drive-By Comedy by David Brenner, George Carlin, Margaret Cho, Al Franken, Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert
The Story of Classical Music by Darren Henley

Biography:
Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce by John Piper
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox
Paula Deen: It Ain’t All about the Cookin’ by Paula Deen
The Blind Side: The Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis

Business:
Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know by John C. Maxwell
The Speed of Trust by Stephen R. Covey
What Bible Says – Money
Nailing the Job Interview Freeway Guide by Susan Leahy

History:
The True Saint Nicholas: Why He Matters to Christmas by William J. Bennett
Public Enemies by Bryan Burrough
Famous Americans in History by Barnaby Chesterman

Literature:
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Great Poets: Emily Dickinson
Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
Precious by Sapphire
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Religion & Spirituality:
Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die by John Piper
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell
Karma & Rebirth in a Nutshell by Jinananda
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
The Lotus and the Cross by Ravi Zacharias
The Three Pillars of Zen by Roshi Philip Kapleau
The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva

Self Development:
Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
Meditations to Awaken Superconsciousness by J. Donald Walters
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Organizing for Life by Sandra Felton
Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Think & Grow Rich: Instant Motivator by Napoleon Hill
The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatston
The Beginner’s Guide to Meditation by Shinzen Young
Exercise Motivation by Effective Learning Systems

Other Notable Releases:
Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips to Clean Up Your Writing by Mignon Fogarty
Rush Hour Express French
The Golfer’s Mind by Dr. Bob Rotella
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Hegel in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
Glenn Beck’s Common Sense
Darwin: In a Nutshell by Peter Whitfield

Get a great little gift for a loved one this holiday season to aid them in their lifelong learning!

December 16, 2008

50 Affordable Stocking Stuffers

Still don’t know what to get a friend or family member for Christmas? We’ve got a great (and a bit biased…) suggestion: Audiobooks. Why are audiobooks such great gifts? Because they don’t require the recipient to take any time out of his or her day to listen to. They can just pop the audiobook on while driving to work, exercising, etc. and each time they’ll think of you and thank you for making their commute or workout a
little more interesting.

To help you out in finding an affordable stocking stuffer we’ve put together all of our titles on sale for less than $20 in LearnOutLoud.com’s Audiobook Outlet. Here you can browse titles by category that are Under $5.00, Under $10.00, Under $15.00, and Under $20.00. Find a great affordable gift in the LearnOutLoud.com’s Outlet:

LearnOutLoud.com’s Audiobook Outlet

We’ve also put together this list of the 50 best stocking stuffers available for under $20:

Arts & Entertainment:
New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes by Garrison Keillor
How to Ruin Your Life by Ben Stein
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Live in Concert by Douglas Adams
Keyboard Conversations: The Power and Passion of Beethoven by Jeffrey Siegel
David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall

Biography:
This I Believe by Jay Allison
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter
The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats by John Kavanagh
Anne Frank’s Story by Carol Ann Lee

Business:
Richest Man in Babylon and The Magic Story by George S. Clason
Think & Grow Rich: Instant Motivator by Napoleon Hill
Personal Finance for Dummies, 5th Edition by Eric Tyson
The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Stephen R. Covey

History:
Martin Luther King Jr.: We Shall Overcome
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Famous Americans in History by Barnaby Chesterman

Literature:
Horton Hears a Who and Other Sounds of Dr. Seuss
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Essential Walt Whitman
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley

Religion & Spirituality:
The Word of Promise: Christmas Story
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
More Than a Carpenter Today by Josh McDowell
The Beginner’s Guide to Buddhism by Jack Kornfield
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
The 100 Minute Bible
How to Pray by R.A. Torrey
The Meaning of Life by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Self Development:
Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn
101 Ways To Transform Your Life by Wayne Dyer
101 Power Thoughts by Louise L. Hay
Creative Visualization Meditations by Shakti Gawain
As You Think by James Allen
Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins
Meditations for Manifesting by Wayne Dyer
Spiritual Progress Through Regression by Brian Weiss
Deep Relaxation by Effective Learning Systems
Meditations for a Miraculous Life by Marianne Williamson
Living a Life of Inner Peace by Eckhart Tolle

Other Notable Releases:
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Rush Hour Express Spanish
The Golfer’s Mind by Dr. Bob Rotella
Marley & Me by John Grogan
Wine Appreciation Freeway Guide by Robin Stark

Get a great little gift for a loved one this holiday season to aid them in their lifelong learning!

December 16, 2008

150 Best New Audio Book Releases from 2008

At LearnOutLoud.com we’ve assembled a list of the 150 best new and most popular audio book releases from 2008. You can view all of our audio book new releases here:

www.learnoutloud.com/New-Releases

To make it easy, we’ve divided this list of 150 new releases into categories:

Arts & Entertainment:
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Complete Radio Series Box Set by Douglas Adams
Why We Suck by Denis Leary
American Prince by Tony Curtis
The Best of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! by Peter Sagal & Others
Liberty by Garrison Keillor
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Music: An Appreciation by Roger Kamien
Horton Hears a Who and Other Sounds of Dr. Seuss by Dr. Seuss
The History of Opera by Richard Fawkes

Biography:
Call Me Ted by Ted Turner
John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
Billy Graham: His Life and Influence by David Aikman
Led by Faith by Immaculee Ilibagiza
Promises to Keep by Joe Biden
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love by Richard Carlson
A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs
Audition: A Memoir by Barbara Walters
A Remarkable Mother by Jimmy Carter
The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende
Life Beyond Measure by Sidney Poitier
The Color of Water by James McBride
It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Business:
The Leader in Me by Stephen R. Covey
50 Prosperity Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon
Credit Repair Kit for Dummies by Steve Bucci
The Missing Secret by Joe Vitale
Saving the World at Work by Tim Sanders
Money, and the Law of Attraction by Jerry & Esther Hicks
The Buffettology Collection by Mary Buffett
Go Green, Live Rich by David Bach
Leadership Gold by John C. Maxwell
The Wealth of Nations (Abridged) by Adam Smith
The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
The New Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Think & Grow Rich: The 21st Century Edition by Napoleon Hill

History:
The Mental Floss History of the World by Eric Sass
A Short History of the United States by Robert V. Remini
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands
A History of the Olympics by John Goodbody
The War Within by Bob Woodward
America’s Hidden History by Kenneth C. Davis
Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Literature:
The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
Marley by John Grogan
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
A Christmas Carol (Dramatized) by Charles Dickens
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
An Irish Country Christmas by Patrick Taylor
On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Othello by William Shakespeare
Native Son by by Richard Wright
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
Pilgrims by Elizabeth Gilbert
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Homer’s the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography by Alberto Manguel
The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
Great Poets: W.B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats
Song Yet Sung by James McBride
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey

Politics:
Mike’s Election Guide by Michael Moore
The Way of the World by Ron Suskind
Makers and Takers by Peter Schweizer
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul
The Essential Barack Obama: The Grammy Award-Winning Recordings by Barack Obama
Memo to the President Elect by Madeleine Albright
The Great Awakening by Jim Wallis
Out of Mao’s Shadow by Philip P. Pan
Fleeced by Dick Morris
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

Religion & Spirituality:
The Word of Promise: Next Generation – New Testament features the voices of such world-class young actors as Annasophia Robb, Marshall Allman, Emily Osment, Cody Linley, Sean Astin, Jordin Sparks, and Corbin Bleu
Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra
The Purpose of Christmas by Rick Warren
Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron
Everything You Know about God Is Wrong, Volume 1
Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell
Love Your Life by Victoria Osteen
Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha by Jack Kerouac
Fresh Air: Faith, Reason and Doubt by Terry Gross
Conflict Free Living by Joyce Meyer
The Love Languages of God by Gary Chapman
Buddha’s Teachings by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai
I Don’t Believe in Atheists by Chris Hedges
The Faith by Charles Colson
Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
NKJV: Word of Promise – New Testament
New Birth or Rebirth by Ravi Zacharias
Finding Our Way Again by Brian McLaren

Self Development:
The Stephen R. Covey 20th Anniversary Collection
ChiRunning by Danny Dreyer
Magnificent Mind at Any Age by Daniel G. Amen
100 Ways to Simplify Your Life by Joyce Meyer
Spiritual Liberation by Michael Beckwith
You: Being Beautiful by by Mehmet C. Oz & Michael F. Roizen
Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes by William Bridges
Leveraging the Universe and Engaging the Magic by Mike Dooley
You: Staying Young by Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz
Making Love Last by David Richo
Law of Attraction Directly from Source: Leading Edge Thought, Leading Edge Music by Jerry & Esther Hicks and Scott Raposa
The 7 Habits of Happy Kids by Sean Covey
Conquering Procrastination: How to Stop Stalling & Start Achieving! by Neil Fiore
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection by John T. Cacioppo
The End of Food by Paul Roberts
The Teachings of Abraham by Esther & Jerry Hicks
You Breathing Easy by Michael F. Roizen
Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes by William Bridges
Leveraging the Universe and Engaging the Magic by Mike Dooley
You: Staying Young by Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz
The Age of Miracles by Marianne Williamson
Getting Things Done (Unabridged) by David Allen
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude by Napoleon Hill
The Wise Heart by Jack Kornfield
Life Visioning by Michael Beckwith
Relieve Anxiety with Medical Hypnosis by Steven Gurgevich
From Fear to Fearlessness by Pema Chodron
Advanced Chakra Wisdom by Cyndi Dale
The Power of Presence by Peter M. Senge
The End of Your World by Adyashanti
Psychosomatic Wellness by Candace Pert
Yoga Wave by Shiva Rea
Living Everyday Zen by Charlotte Joko Beck
The Personal Mastery Program by Srikumar Rao

Other Notable Releases:
The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture by David S. Kidder
A Member of the Family: Cesar Millan’s Guide to a Lifetime of Fulfillment with Your Dog
Green Living for Dummies by Yvonne Jeffery
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
This I Believe II by Jay Allison
Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Advanced Spanish
Don’t Know Much about Anything by Kenneth C. Davis
Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up by John Allen Paulos
Everything You Pretend to Know and Are Afraid Someone Will Ask by Lynette Padwa
Simplexity by Jeffrey Kluger

November 30, 2007

100 Best New Audio Books for Christmas

Looking for some great holiday gifts? At LearnOutLoud.com we’ve assembled a list of the 100 best new audio book releases.

All the audio books here are available on Audio CD and are in stock and ready to ship from LearnOutLoud.com. No matter who you’re giving gifts to this year, you’re sure to find an audio book they’ll enjoy and learn from.

To make it easy, we’ve divided this list of 100 new releases into categories:

Arts & Entertainment:
I Am America (and So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
Our Dumb World by The Onion
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself by Alan Alda
Dave Barry’s History of the Millennium (So Far) by Dave Barry

Biography:
Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton
Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far by Amy Grant
Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the Storycorps Project

This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
My Grandfather’s Son by Clarence Thomas
Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
A Mighty Heart by Mariane Pearl
Crashing Through by Robert Kurson
Amazing Grace by Eric Metaxes
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl by Steven Bach

Business:
All the Money in the World by Peter W. Bernstein
Free to Choose by Milton Friedman & Rose Friedman
Supercapitalism by Robert Reich
The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan
Leadership: Great Leaders, Great Teams, Great Results by Stephen R. Covey
The Power of Outrageous Marketing by Joe Vitale
Rich Dad’s Advisors: Box Set
Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life by Donald Trump
The Last Chance Millionaire by Doug Andrew
The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris
The Tipping Point (Unabridged) by Malcolm Gladwell

History:
American Creation by Joseph J. Ellis
Boom!: Voices of the Sixties by Tom Brokaw
Conscience for Change by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 by Ken Burns & Geoffrey C. Ward
The Coldest Winter: American and the Korean War by David Halberstam

Literature:
Beowulf
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol
A Family Christmas by Caroline Kennedy
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Essential Dickens: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Essential Tolkien: The Hobbit and the Fellowship of the Ring
Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Politics:
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans by Ann Coulter
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems by Glenn Beck
Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World by Bill Clinton
What We Say Goes by Noam Chomsky
Beyond the White House by Jimmy Carter
Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them by John McCain
Obama: From Promise to Power by David Mendell
Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
The Reagan Diaries by Ronald Reagan

Religion & Spirituality:
My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
New Day, New You by Joyce Meyer
3:16: The Numbers of Hope by Max Lucado
Bringing Peace to a Changing World: Bible Study with Jimmy Carter
The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong
What’s So Great about Christianity by Dinesh D’Souza
Inspired By…the Bible Experience: Complete TNIV Bible
NKJV: Word of Promise – New Testament
Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra
The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot by Jeffrey Archer

Self Development:
Guided Meditation by Jack Kornfield
The Art of Power by Thich Nhat Hanh
I Dare You by Joyce Meyer
Maximum Confidence by Jack Canfield
The Astonishing Power of Emotions by Esther & Jerry Hicks
The Science of Being Great by Wallace D. Wattles
What on Earth Have I Done? by Robert Fulghum
Not Easily Broken by T.D. Jakes
You: Staying Young by Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz
Ageless Face, Ageless Mind by Nicholas Perricone
Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life, 8-CD Set by Wayne Dyer
Healthy Sleep by Andrew Weil
Become a Better You by Joel Osteen
Notes from the Universe by Mike Dooley
The Golden World by Robert A. Johnson
The Law of Attraction CD Collection by Esther Hicks
The Sacred Contract of America by Caroline Myss
Life’s Missing Instruction Manual by Joe Vitale
50 Psychology Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon
Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy
How to Make Someone Love You Forever! in 90 Minutes or Less by Nicholas Boothman
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
Meditations for a Miraculous Life by Marianne Williamson

Other Notable Releases:
Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips to Clean Up Your Writing by Mignon Fogarty
Unlocking the Secrets of 2012 by John Major Jenkins
Don’t Know Much about Anything by Kenneth C. Davis
The Meaning of It All by Richard P. Feynman
The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
NPR Driveway Moments for Dads

We currently offer four different shipping methods for shipping audio books: USPS Media Mail, USPS Priority, UPS Ground, and UPS 2nd Day Air.

Merry Christmas!

September 18, 2007

eMusic Launches DRM-Free Audio Book Store

The website eMusic, which is second to iTunes in music download sales, announced yesterday it will be offering DRM-free MP3 downloadable audio books through their subscription service.

N.Y Times Article: EMusic to Offer Audiobooks

They’ve launched the beta version of their audiobooks section and are currently offering 1011 audio books from publishers: Random House Audio (about 500 titles), Penguin Audio (about 150 titles), Hachette Audio (about 15 titles), Blackstone Audiobooks, and NAXOS AudioBooks.

eMusic’s press release announces “eMusic Introduces World’s First Audiobooks Catalogue in MP3“, which isn’t entirely true as we’ve been selling MP3 audio book downloads for over a year now and have over 1500 titles to choose from. And other publishers such as NAXOS AudioBooks, Christian Audio, Sounds True, The Teaching Company, and Nightingale Conant have made their catalog available on MP3 through their websites. But we won’t hold that against eMusic, as this is a welcome development in the trend towards audio books being offered in the universal DRM-free MP3 format so that customers can play their audio books on all portable audio players and not have to worry about compatibility issues or other frustrations surrounding DRM-ed files.

At LearnOutLoud we gave their new audio book program a test run. It requires signing up for the eMusic 14-day free trial which gets you 25 free downloads and 1 free audio book. You give them your credit card and you’re billed at the end of the trial if you don’t cancel.

The eMusic (music) download subscription is separate from the audiobooks subscription. When you sign up for the 14-Day trial that includes 25 free music downloads and 1 free audio book download, you are essentially signing up for 2 trials. From there you can choose to continue either subscription. The eMusic (Music) Basic Monthly subscription gets you 30 music downloads for $9.99 per month and the subscriptions and downloads scale up from there. The eMusic Audiobooks Basic subscription gets you one audiobook credit per month for $9.99 a month, and 2 audiobook credits a month for $19.99 a month. The audiobook credits do not roll over to the next month, so if you forget to use your credits within the month, then you lose them.

We signed up for the trial and then needed to download the eMusic Remote which is where you browse all their music and audio books. Once you’re in the eMusic Remote application, then downloading music and audio books is quite easy. It’s basically a one-click purchase when you click their download button and the entire audio book is queued up to download in the eMusic Remote Download Manager.

They break audio books up into quite a few tracks. For the 11-hour audio book we downloaded it was 113 tracks which I guess amounts to about 10 tracks per hour. There wasn’t an option for a single bookmarkable AAC file, which would be nice for iPod users so they don’t have to remember what track number they’re on. They do offer their audio books at a bit rate of 64kbs which is higher than Audible.com’s highest bit rate of 32kbs.

eMusic is digital watermarking their audio book files, which means they are stamping information onto the audio file, so if their files do show up on peer-to-peer sharing networks they can trace the files back to their original source. We’re unsure if this watermark contains customer info, and if so, we’re unsure what the repercussions would be for customers who shared their files on peer-to-peer sharing networks.

Browsing the eMusic store is very fast and easy. They feature 14 categories and numerous subcategories to browse in the audiobooks section. Audio samples are in .m3u which loads and plays in whatever your default player is for .m3u files. Overall it was a good user experience downloading audiobooks from eMusic, and we’ll stay subscribers and see what more they have to offer.

We welcome eMusic to the wonderful world of audiobooks!