Audiobooks

Listen To Iain Banks’ New Novel For Free

Iain Banks‘ free podcast of his new novel Transition just launched in the U.S. today, and it’s already #11 on the iTunes Top 20 in the U.K. The author is reading 15-minute installments from an abridged version twice a week.

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Sep 22

The Evil Robot Monkey Just Wants To Create

Most stories about cybernetically “uplifted” animals tend to portray them as alienated super-soldiers or jolly butlers, but Mary Robinette Kowal probably has the right idea in her story “Evil Robot Monkey,” online as an audio. The story, from the Solaris Book Of New Science Fiction Vol. 2, is up as an audio file on Kowal’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 23

Metatropolis Story of Decaying Cities, Read by Saul Tigh

Instead of reading about the stock market this afternoon, divert yourself by listening to some near-future tales of the ecopocalypse instead. The first story from John Scalzi’s new audiobook anthology Metatropolis is online for free, and it sounds fantastic. Written by Jay “Mainspring” Lake and read by Michael “Saul Tigh” Hogan, the story is called…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Oct 17

Gaiman, Zelazny and More Coming To Your iPod

When Amazon.com’s SF audiobooks imprint Audible Frontiers launched earlier this year, we were interested in the potential of something new to entertain us on our morning commutes. With the line now in its third month, we checked in with Audible’s director of content, Steve Feldberg, to see whether it looks like there’s a future in…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jun 29

Amazon Plans to Buy Audible

It seems like a cozy fit: Amazon.com, the beloved mega bookseller, plans to by Audible.com, the biggest (only?) digital distributor of audiobooks. The news release itself describes the terms of the deal ($300 million in cash) but doesn’t really outline Amazon’s ultimate plans. Amazon does, notably, take this opportunity to plug the Kindle, giving us…

Commerce Wilson Rothman Jan 31

Listen Up — We’ve Got 11 Classic Scifi Audiobooks

Books on tape might be extremely dead technology, but iPods and eBook readers like the Amazon Kindle have reanimated the medium and turned audiobooks into the commuter’s wonder drug. When the book is read well, you’ll find yourself sitting mesmerized in your parking space just listening, instead of heading into work. Check out our list…

io9 Kevin Kelly Jan 11

New Audiobooks From iTunes Store Won’t Play on iPods; Lazy People Weep

Too-busy-to-read (or slackass) bibliophiles are in for a surprise if they grab Al Gore’s latest account of his hunt for Manbearpig from the iTunes Store. Apple has confirmed that The Assault on Reason, as well as a number of other new books released on the iTunes Store will not play on iPods, though they will…

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 29

PlayAway Audiobooks Reviewed (Verdict: Significant Market)

This review seems to have been written by a 12-year-old girl (“It is light weight and will be perfect for the beach this Summer. We’ll have more on this once we give it a listen :-)”), but it covers all the basics. The PlayAway is an MP3 player pre-loaded with an audio book. It costs about…

Reviews John Biggs May 31

Playaway Audiobooks

We’ll have one of these here at the office soon, so we can do a hands-on, but they’re basically mini audiobook players that are ready to go out of the box. You pull a little tab to activate the battery and you’ve got a few hours of listening time. Once you’re done, you’re supposed to…

Tech News Johnb Apr 12

Listen To Iain Banks’ New Novel For Free

The Evil Robot Monkey Just Wants To Create

Metatropolis Story of Decaying Cities, Read by Saul Tigh

Gaiman, Zelazny and More Coming To Your iPod

Amazon Plans to Buy Audible

Listen Up — We’ve Got 11 Classic Scifi Audiobooks

New Audiobooks From iTunes Store Won’t Play on iPods; Lazy People Weep

PlayAway Audiobooks Reviewed (Verdict: Significant Market)

Playaway Audiobooks

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