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The audiobook of Andrew Peterson’s fantastic book, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (which I reviewed in PubCast #47), is now available at iTunes for only $3.95! (Audiobook price at Amazon is $19.75!)
I can’t recommend it highly enough, and you can’t go wrong for $3.95!
The second book in the Wingfeather Saga, North! Or Be Eaten, is due for release August 18.
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And as soon as itunes and audible ditch DRM, I might consider buying from them.
I’ll have to see about buying an ebook version.
My wife’s too big a fan of iTunes to not buy from them. And it saves me money in the long run, because rather than buying the albums of all those 80s power ballads and rock songs she loves, I can just get the songs.
So I’m stuck buying from iTunes. And you can’t beat that price for the audiobook.
Every rose has its thorn, after all. I learned that from a power ballad I bought from iTunes
Hmm… as always there are ways around DRM, however elaborate. And interestingly, I was just about to write a post on audiobook DRM for my website.
But, wow…. I might just have to get that
Victoria, I’m subscribed to your blog already, but for everyone else, do come back here and link that post in the comments once you’ve written it!
Are you Travis ? Wow…
I will.
Every Rose. Ah yes, good ole Poison. Did it every strike you funny that all the old metal band’s biggest hits were ballads?
Anyway, more to the point, the audible DRM files won’t play on any of my mp3 players and I’m not buying an ipod. Sigh. itunes is supposed to be ditching its DRM format in the near future. But I know where I can get an ebook of Peterson novel for $12.
Victoria, I can’t remember if it was you or not who asked if my wife could give some recommendations on werewolf & vampire urban fantasy novels. But if you did here’s some authors she came up with off the top of her head.
Briggs I see you’re already reading. But there’s also another series set in the same world as Mercy Thompson called the Alpha & Omega series.
Carrie Vaughn does the Kitty Norville series. My wife said there’s romantic elements in it but that’s not the whole thing driving the plot. It’s technically werewolf/urban fantasy.
Also, Ilona Andrews does the Kate Daniels series.
Just some suggestions.
Rev George -
thanks for the suggestions. Yes, I was already planning to read the Alpha & Omega series by Briggs, that’s why I turned to Mercy Thompson first. Just to keep it chronological.
Vaughn and Andrews are hereby noted
Travis -
here is the permalink to my post on DRM and iTunes, as requested.
And yes, I have been cheating and back logging a number of posts that I have written today, but were supposed to be posted long ago, to fill up the gaping hole that was December. There might be some stuff there that will interest you too.
Victoria, I can’t seem to get the permalink to open for me. I’d like to read your post on DRM et al.
Actually I was able to find your post just by going to your blog, Victoria. Nice article. You’d think itunes would have a bit more leverage nowadays & could’ve made audible budge on some things. Guess not. I really love BJ Harrison’s work at The Classic Tales but since he sells all his stuff through audible, at best all I could do is play the files on itunes at my computer which kind of defeats the purpose of getting an audiobook. Although I’m not squeamish about stripping the DRM out of a file I bought & paid for, I’ve also not found any good program to do that for audible files.
The key to The Classic Tales, revgeorge, is downloading everything as a podcast when it’s first available for free, and keeping it. I had no problem at all putting his reading of A Christmas Carol on a CD, or doing anything else I wanted with it. I’ll be doing the same thing with his forthcoming “The Classic Novels” podcast. You’ve gotta pay for those (they’ll be REALLY cheap), but they’ll be released as a podcast, so I think they’ll be easy to use however you want to.
here’s the link to Victoria’s post.
I usually do save his Classic Tales podcasts, and I have been since I realized he put things up on audible after awhile. But there are a few older ones that I don’t have that I’d like. Then there were a few that had audio problems in them. I’m just complainy, I guess.
I just had a hard drive failure and lost all my classic tales readings along with all my photos and documents and… everything.
I had a good library of ebooks going too.
Major bummer.
Matthew, that is awful! I’m sure I don’t even have to ask, but you’ve got a backup drive now?
Oh yes.
I never thought it’d happen to me…
I really need to be sure about backing up.
After all, Jesus saves.
Wokka wokka wokka.
I just saw a bumper sticker the other day that said:
“If Jesus saves, what does ctrl+s do?”
That’s hilarious ! That was the laugh of the day
I think my other half is going to make a website banner of that (but substitute the CTRL for Command, since we are an Apple household).
Yes, we’re an Apple household, too.