Amazon has announced that its next Prime Day sales event will take place July 11 and 12, 2023 with discounts on thousands of products. Meanwhile other stores have already begun scheduling some counterprogramming – for example, Newegg’s Fantastech sale starts a day earlier on July 10, 2023. Meanwhile, you don’t have to wait until July […]
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Daily Deals (9-21-2021)
Spotify is giving away a free 3-month subscription to Spotify Premium, which includes ad-free music, podcasts, and other audio content for new subscribers. Meanwhile Amazon is running its own 3-month free promotion: new subscribers can pick up a 3-month Amazon Music Unlimited subscription and a 3-month subscription to Audible for music, podcasts, and other content. One […]
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Lilbits: Happy 25th birthday Windows 95 (please don’t crash)
Microsoft released Windows 95 on August 24, 1995, which means the operating system is old enough to vote, drink, and do just about anything in the US except run for president. While Windows has come a long way in the past 25 years, if a modern Windows user were to fire up Windows 95 today, […]
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Daily Deals (11-13-2018)
Want some free money Amazon credit? Easy. If you have an Amazon Fire TV device, all you need to do is install the Audible app today and you’ll get $5 worth of Amazon credit. You don’t even need to sign up for an Audible membership (although you can get a 30-day free trial and two […]
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Daily Deals (10-22-2018)
You love to read… but you have a hard time finding time to sit down and open a book. Enter audiobooks, which you can listen to as you walk, drive, cook dinner, or clean house. The only catch is that audiobooks tend to be a lot pricier than their print counterparts. That’s where subscription services […]
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Deals of the Day (3-19-2018)
Amazon’s Audible subscription service for audiobooks normally runs $150 per year and the company typically charges $50 and up for its Alexa-enabled Echo line of smart speakers. But right now if you sign up for an annual subscription to Audible and buy an Echo speaker you can save $50 on each, for a combined savings […]
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Kobo takes on Audible with $10 per month audiobook subscriptions
Kobo is probably the third best-known eBook provider, which is to say that it’s the one you probably keep forgetting exists. The company offers a line of eBook readers as well as apps for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and even BlackBerry. And now you can use those apps to do more than read eBooks. you […]
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Amazon’s premium podcast service is now free for Prime members (Audible Channels)
It’s been two months since Amazon-owned Audible launched a podcast/spoken word subscription service called Audible Channels. Up until recently, Audible was first and foremost a service for listening to audiobooks, but Audible Channels includes access to other forms of storytelling, including a series of exclusive podcasts. While Audible Channels was free for existing Audible subscribers, […]
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Audible Channels is a premium podcast network for $5 per month (or free for Audible subscribers)
Comments Off on Audible Channels is a premium podcast network for $5 per month (or free for Audible subscribers)Audible is one of the biggest players in the audiobook space, and over the past year the company has been hiring a lot of radio and podcast professionals in an effort to expand into new territory. Now Audible has taken the wraps off its new “short-form digital audio” service. Audible Channels is basically a premium […]
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Amazon’s Kindle apps for Android, iOS get audiobooks (Audible)
Amazon sells eBooks and audiobooks (along with just about anything else you can imagine). Now you can use a single app to access both audiobooks and eBooks on your Android or iOS device. The latest Amazon Kindle apps add better support for audiobooks from Audible, allowing you to switch between text and audio with a single […]