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And for those who are tired of reading:

Barnes & Noble is offering nine free audiobook stories by big-name authors on its online store. You can listen to the MP3 files on your iPod or other digital music player.

The free nine downloads include:

The Babysitter’s Code by Laura Lippman
Super Goat Man by Jonathan Lethem
Best New Horror by Joe Hill
Great Day by Kurt Vonnegut
Fathers by Alice Munro
Truth or Dare by Elizabeth Berg
Ysrael by Junot Diaz
Merrano of the Dry Country by Louis L’Amour
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The offer is here, and expires Sunday. Barnes & Noble also is offering 50 percent off the price of one audiobook.

B&N;’s new Audiobook MP3 store offers downloads of more than 10,000 titles at prices from $10 to $20, which competes with Amazon’s Audible.com subsidiary.

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One Comment

  1. Posted September 22, 2011 at 6:30 pm | Permalink

    I’m listening to the Tom Sawyer audio book right now and it’s great. If you can get Barnes and Noble to give you a copy, you should, it’s way cool. thanks for posting. barnes and noble rocks!

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