The eBook Reader Blog

Yesterday was World Book Day, and to help celebrate Audible is giving away three audiobook classics. You can get Moby Dick narrated by Anthony Heald, Winnie-the-Pooh narrated by Peter Dennis, and Emma narrated by Nadia May. You can find the free audiobooks on Audible’s World Book Day page. The page says that they will be […]

If you like listening to audiobooks, Audible has a couple of really good promotions going on right now where you can get 2 free audiobooks and a $10 Amazon gift card for signing up for a free two month Audible trial. There are two separate promotions with nearly identical stipulations. One offer is for new […]

If you’re an Amazon Prime member you can get unlimited access to a selection of free audiobooks each month in addition to Prime eligible Kindle ebooks. Unfortunately Amazon doesn’t make it particularly clear where to find the list of audiobooks available free to borrow for Prime members. In most cases you need to download the […]

With the release of the Kindle Oasis 2, Amazon brought back support for Audible audiobooks on certain Kindle models. Kindles used to support audiobooks and MP3 files several generations ago, but with the release of the 1st Kindle Paperwhite in 2012, Amazon opted to drop audio support on Kindles altogether. Now Audible support is back […]

Today Google announced that they’ve added a new audiobook section to the Google Play Store. Plus they’re offering a bunch of best-selling titles for $10 or less to celebrate the launch of the new audiobook store, and you can also get 50% off your first purchase. Google’s audiobooks are being sold individually, with no option […]

If you’re an Amazon Prime member, there are a couple of new Kindle Singles titles that you can borrow for free, and you can also get their accompanying audiobooks for free. You can also get the audiobooks for free even if you aren’t an Amazon Prime member, but you have to buy the books for […]

Today I happened to notice that Amazon is now advertising “built-in” Audible support on the product page for the entry-level $79 Kindle. It’s funny how they chose to use the words built-in when it’s clearly not “built-in” yet because the statement is followed by a disclaimer saying Audible access will be added via a free […]

Last week Kobo started selling audiobooks on their website alongside ebooks. They also introduced an audiobook subscription plan that costs $9.99 per month in the US and $12.99 in Canada. Basically you get one audiobook per month with the current subscription, and they plan on adding more options in the future. Kobo’s audiobooks can be […]