Thanks to “Emily Bronte” in the Amazon Kindle community for the heads-up in this
Amazon Kindle community thread
about this free audiobook from Audible.com:
http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B008GXLSKE&source_code=AMZFP9060EM073112
It’s Colin Firth reading Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair.
That novel has been turned into a movie twice (once with an Oscar-nominated performance by Julianne Moore).
I frequently get advertisements for free audiobooks…if I sign up for an Audible.com (owned by Amazon) plan. This is not one of those…it appears to be free for everybody (although you obviously need to have an Audible.com account to get it).
I’m not a big fan of audiobooks (I listen to text-to-speech for hours a week in the car, but that’s quite different), but it is nice to have. 
I don’t know how long it will be available, or how it is geographically limited.
Thanks, Emily!
This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog.
August 6, 2012 at 6:22 pm |
Thanks for the heads up, on the freebie! I’m an avid Audible listener and didn’t know this one was free!
August 6, 2012 at 11:26 pm |
Thanks for writing, thingsajillion!
Glad I could get you a freebie!
August 6, 2012 at 6:35 pm |
Thanks for the heads up. I had an Audible subscription, and gathered many books at a reduced rate, and some at an insanely low rate, and some free, so I had to cancel the subscription because I think it will take me 2 years to catch up on all the listening! Will add this to the collection, though. Colin Firth is a great actor, so it will probably be a good listen.
August 6, 2012 at 11:28 pm |
Thanks for writing, Zebras!
It will be interesting to hear what Firth does with it. Performing an audiobook is really different from many other kinds of acting…
August 6, 2012 at 7:38 pm |
Thanks for the alert. For some reason, Graham Greene’s books are still not available as ebooks in the US. So audiobooks are the only means for digital reading.
August 6, 2012 at 11:38 pm |
Thanks for writing, Tom!
Greene’s books are mostly “in the well”…not old enough to be in the public domain, not recent enough for e-book rights to have been negotiated. As I recall, the end of Greene’s life didn’t see the author in good circumstances…there may not be an agency with which to negotiate.
I think Greene’s books will start falling into the public domain in about a decade and a half, under the current rules.
August 6, 2012 at 11:20 pm |
Thanks,Bufo! Was surprised it could only be sent to my K3′s and not Fire or iPad.
August 6, 2012 at 11:26 pm |
Thanks for writing, Pam!
It should be available in the Audible app on your Fire, if you’ve connected it to your Audible account.