How to save money on audible audiobooks

@MichaelCrider
Oct 2, 2018, 8:00 am EST | 4 min read

Audible is easily the largest marketplace for audiobooks, but it’s also pretty expensive. Here are a few ways you can reduce the cost of expanding your audiobook collection.

At $14.95 per month, a standard one-credit Audible subscription is more than a lot of unlimited media options (like Netflix or Amazon’s own Kindle Unlimited) for just a few hours of content. You can lower that per-item cost by buying a more expensive plan or paying yearly, but even so, there’s nothing even close to an “all you can eat” option for Audible’s vast selection. And purchasing audiobooks outright outside of the monthly token system is expensive, with most professionally published audiobooks costing $20-30. It adds up quickly.

Some alternatives are considerably cheaper or even free, like Scribd or digital rentals from your local library. But nothing beats Audible’s selection, which is probably why it’s so expensive. Here are a few ways you can mitigate that cost.

Take Advantage Of Audible’s Free Trials

New users of Audible get access to the standard “30-day free trial.” In Audible terms, this means one free credit, which you can exchange for almost any audiobook on the site. You’ll have to provide credit card information (or point to your Amazon account) to get the free credit, but if you cancel before one month, you won’t be charged. Audible credits, and the books for which you exchange them remain connected to your account even when you don’t have an active subscription.

You should cancel your trial account before the time limit expires, even if you intend to keep buying books. Why? Well…

Cancel Your Account (Or At Least Pretend To) Every Once In A While

With Audible, as with other services, the company wants you to keep you paying on a regular basis. To incentivize you to keep your account active, they’ll often offer you a discount if you try to cancel at the end of the month. On multiple occasions after canceling a month-to-month subscription, Audible has offered me a 50% discount on the next three credits. That’s three audiobooks—generally $20-30 when bought individually—for under $8 each.

You can’t merely threaten to cancel your account every three months and score a half-price subscription forever. But unlike the initial free trial (which won’t work more than once for the same account), Audible’s customer retention system seems to reset periodically. You can certainly pull this move once or twice a year to score some cheap credits, especially if it’s been a while since you’ve had an active subscription. And don’t worry: even if you’re not offered a discount, there’s no penalty for canceling and subscribing again immediately.

Watch For Sales On Audible Credits

In addition to the standard free trial, Audible will often offer a discounted limited subscription for “new” subscribers. That “new” is in quotation marks because despite having an on-and-off subscription for years, I’ve managed to sign up for these discounts on an inactive subscription multiple times.

These discounted initial subscriptions are often $5 for three months, a 66% discount. Sometimes they require you to be an Amazon Prime subscriber, sometimes not. But you can combine them with the “threaten to cancel” technique above to score half a dozen audiobooks for just over $35 (versus $75 for six standard Audible credits, or $100-180 versus buying major audiobooks at standard prices).

Shopping blogs and discount sites like Slickdeals and Groupon are places that generally feature these discounted limited subscriptions. Check in on them on a regular basis, or follow them on social media. “Prime Day” generally has at least one major discount for Amazon Prime subscribers, and sometimes Audible will offer currently-subscribed members one to three extra credits for an immediate, discounted rate.

Keep Audible’s Emails Enabled

Yeah, spam emails are annoying. But If you’re looking for discounts on Audible audiobooks, you might want to let them through anyway. The reason is that in addition to standard credit token sales, Audible also sells standard audiobooks at regular prices, available to purchase whether you’re subscribed to monthly credits or not.

And just like any other conventional retailer, Audible often has sales on its standard, non-credit prices. You’ll see periodic discounts on individual books, but what you’re really looking for is big sale events that will offer dramatic discounts on hundreds of books at once, ensuring there will be at least a few that match your listening interests. Often these titles are discounted by up to 75% versus their regular prices, coming in well below even the rough $15-per-book that a monthly credit scores you.

Above is an order I made in July: four books for about $28 total, during one of Audible’s standard price sales, all paid for with an immediate charge instead of Audible monthly credits. If you checked the regular prices today, those four books would cost about $91 together. Not bad.

In addition to individual discounts and large-scale sales, Audible will often offer discounts via email or credits for actions like pre-orders or writing reviews. The site will also let you know if a book you might be interested in is part of a promotion like the Daily Discount. It’s well worth the occasional clutter in your inbox.

Check Your Kindle Books For Discounts

People who enjoy digital audiobooks generally enjoy ebooks as well. If you have a book in your Amazon Kindle library that’s also offered as an Audible audiobook, you can often “upgrade” with an additional Audible purchase at a significant discount off the price of the audiobook alone. Check your Kindle app on your phone in the “More” section to find these offers.

The combined price of the ebook and audiobook is generally around the same, so purchasing the ebook specifically for a discount usually doesn’t make sense. But if you’ve picked up the Kindle book on sale, or if you’re just looking to enjoy an older book you haven’t read in a while in audio form, it’s worth a look. Independent authors who publish their books digitally (and usually very cheaply) often offer audiobook upgrades for just a few dollars. This comes with the bonus of being able to switch between the ebook and narrated audiobook at any time, with your progressed synced.

Audible is an expensive service. The most popular membership starts at $15 per month, where you get one credit, which you can use to buy any 1 book from Audible library. P lus there is 30% discount on other Audiobooks.

If you are thinking about trying Audible, but find it too expensive to begin with, here are some tips and tricks to get most out of your Audible membership.

Watch the video at the end of this post or read along.

Audible Tips and Tricks

#1 Get 2 Free Audiobooks From Audible Trial Instead of 1

If you sign up for Audible from the official website, then you’ll get 1 free Audiobook and then $15 per month. Same is the case, if you sign up form your favorite YouTuber’s affiliate link.

However, there is one simple trick which can get you two Audiobooks in your free trial instead of one. All you have to do is, simply head over to amazon.com, search for the book you want to listen, For this instance, I want to listen to the Audiobook ‘Mastery’ by Robert Greene. In the cart window at the left side of the screen, you’ll see Free with Audible, Amazon special offer. And below that, it says, includes two free Audiobooks.

#2 How to bypass Audible geographical restrictions

Just as Netflix has a different catalog for each country, not all the Audiobooks on Audible are available in every country. Even though you pay the same membership fees.

Recently, I discovered the title The one thing after reading GrubHub CTO’s interview on Lifehacker. , and quick search on Audible revels they have it’s audiobook version, but when I tried to buy it with my free credit, i couldn’t download it due to it’s publishing rights restrictions.

Thankfully unlike Netflix, it’s easy to bypass geo-restrictions on Audible. On your computer, change your geo-location with extensions like Ultrasurf or use any VPN. Now, you’ll be buy any Audiobook, and once refresh the Audible app, you’ll see the title downloading. Now you can listen to best of both worlds.

#3 Get 50% Discount on Audible for Three Months

S ometimes, $15 per month subscription can get a little expensive, especially when you live in India or any other country where there is a huge difference is purchasing parity. Thankfully, there is one simple trick which will get you 50% discount on audible (i.e. $7.5 per month) for first three months.

Go to the Audible website on your computer, next go to “ Account Details .”

And look for the option that says “Cancel my membership”, for reasons select “It’s too expensive.” And that’s it, most probably, Audible will try to retain you with 50% off, i.e. $7.49 per month, for next 3 months. Though, it goes without saying that it’ll work only once per user; and who knows amazon might change their policy anytime in future.

#4 Use Secret Silver Subscription Plan to Save Money on Audible

Audible has a secret plan that costs $15 every two months, and you’ll get 6 credits in a year instead of 12 meaning you’ll be charged every alternative month.

For some strange reasons, Audible doesn’t advertise this silver plan on their website. But if you don’t read much and are happy with 6 credit a year instead of 12, ask the customer support to enroll you in to the silver plan.

Now, some of you may be wondering, why use silver plan? When you can cancel your subscription and restart it every alternate month. Well, other than the simple waste of time, If you cancel your Audible subscription, you lose all the unused credit and also don’t get 30% discounts on other Audiobooks. However, with that silver subscription, you get to keep the unused credits, and maybe even buy the cheaper book which is less than $15, in the alternate month, when you have no credits.

#5 Watch for Audible’s special deals

If you finish your monthly Audiobook in just few days, then consider subscribing to Audible Daily Deal, which as the name goes, offer one particular Audiobook at a reduced price. So far I’ve got two Audiobook that I was looking forward for, for just $1 or $2 out of these daily deals.

They also send notification about special holiday deals on Audible. For instance, at the time of writing this post, Audible is offering the gold subscription for $5 per month for next 3 month, instead of regular $15. And interesting thing is, you can’t find these information anywhere on the homepage. However, if you are subscribed to special deals, you’ll get email notification.

#6 Return the book you don’t like

With audible subscription you are entitled to – Great listen guarantee, meaning, if you don’t like an Audiobook you can return it anytime you want within 1 year of purchase. No question asked. If you bought with credit, you’ll get the credit back, if you bought with credit card, the money will be reimbursed.

That’s how become most customer centric company in the world.

However, I would suggest not missing this unless you really don’t like the book, don’t return it.. Remember, when you return the book, it’s most probably the author who gets affected and not Audible.

#7 Download Higher Quality Audio Books For Crisper Sound

By default, Audible will download the lower (or “Standard”) quality version of the audiobooks you buy. But if you like me who crave for top-quality voice overs. Then here is how to get it.

Open up the settings in the Audible app and tap Download Settings, then tap Download Format. Finally, choose “High Quality.” If you’ve already downloaded your audiobooks, you may need to remove it and download it again it to get the higher quality version. Keep in mind that higher quality audio will result in larger downloads, so make room on your device for the files.

#8 Buy Kindle deals to get Cheap Audiobooks

Another way get good discount on Audible is, instead of buying a book from your credit or from Audible, buy the Kindle version of the book from Amazon.com and while you at it,

For instance, the Audiobook Artemis is priced $24 on Audible, but if you search for kindle edition of this book on amazon, you can see it’s priced at $3, and if you add an Audiobook on top of that, it’ll cost $8 more, in total it’s just $12 for both the Audiobook and kindle, and it’s still cheaper than getting the same Audiobook from audible.

Obviously, this doesn’t work for every book, but if you are buying in bulk, this could save you a few bucks with barely 3 clicks more .

So, these were some tips and tricks to save some bucks on Audible, obviously this won’t make you next bill gates, but then every money saved is every money earned.

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Becoming an Audible member was a life-changing habit for me. I now read more books than ever and find that I am using my fringe hours doing more of what I love.

Because I love to listen to audiobooks AND save money, I’m constantly looking for affordable ways to add to my audio book library. Here are 10 helpful tips for saving money on Audible.

10 Ways to Save Money on Audible

Try Audible for free and get two free books

This is a simple one. If you don’t have an audible account, you can try it for free and get two free audiobooks . You have nothing to lose – and you might end up like me and become a convert for life. If you don’t know where to begin, a few favorite audiobooks I like to recommend include:

Buy Kindle deals and add the Audible option

Another great way to get affordable audible books is to add the Whispersync option when buying Kindle deals. Here’s how it works:

• A Kindle book goes on sale. The book above is on sale for $1.99.
• Amazon gives you the Whispersync option to add the audio book for a discounted price when you buy the Kindle book. As you can see, it is just $3.99 in the example above.
• You buy both the Kindle and the audiobook for one low price.

Whispersync allows you to seamlessly go back and forth between reading the Kindle version and listening to the audio version of the book.

I often will buy a kindle book for $1.99 – $2.99, then add the audio book for $2.99 or $3.99. Getting both versions for $5 – $7 is a great price. Modern Mrs. Darcy posts kindle deals every day and always includes the audio book price, so this is a useful way to find some deals.

Check your current Kindle books for Whispersync options

This is a great trick! Often, only a Kindle version of a book will be on sale, so I will just buy that book. But later, the deal for Whispersync becomes available.

To check for current deals, go here, sign into your Amazon account, and Amazon will scan your current Kindle library for any audiobook upgrades available. I tend to upgrade when the price is $3.99 or less.

Pay attention to daily deals and special sales

Audible offers many, many deals! Visit the site daily to see what offers are available. A different book goes on sale every day, and they will often do special sales like their recent two books for the price of one.

Only buy audiobooks with credits that are more than $14.95

Since you are likely paying $14.95 for Audible subscription credits, don’t buy books with credits that are under this price point.

Use your rollover credits

Depending on the plan you have, Audible will let you rollover your credits. However, the number varies depending on the plan.

Add books to your wishlist

Audible will let you know when books on your wishlist are on sale, so be sure to keep your wishlist filled with good books.

Go through the steps to almost cancel your membership

I recently did this myself and it totally worked! You will then be offered a special incentive to stay a member.

To do this, be sure you have used all your credits. Then, go to account settings and then scroll to the bottom to click cancel. You’ll be asked a question about why you’re canceling.

Then the site will give you an offer to try to keep you. For me it was a $20 credit. Easy way to get a free or nearly free book.

Contact Audible’s customer service to get the “Silver” membership

If you find that you are getting more credits than you can use, you can use the call or customer service chat feature to get the Silver membership, which will downgrade your membership to one credit every other month. I was a Gold customer, which provides one credit for a book each month, but found that, because I so often take advantage of Kindle/Whispersync deals, I didn’t need a credit every month.

You cannot change your membership to Silver through the website. You must contact customer service, but it is a quick and easy way to stay an Audible member and save money.

Return an audio book if you don’t like it

You have one-year to return a book that you don’t like, no questions asked. I have returned multiple books in the past eighteen months and never had a problem. Audible will reimburse you in whatever way you paid for the book.

Get Started Today

If you are not a member of Audible, I encourage you to try it today and get two free books to jumpstart your summer reading. If you are an Audible member, I hope these tips help you save money while adding to your library. And if you need more inspiration, read the six reasons I love audio books.

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Audiobooks can provide an easy and convenient way to get more reading into your life.

But if you plan on going outside the range of your regular internet connection, you’ll want to download the book onto your computer or device before you leave. That way, you won’t have to worry about getting stuck on a cliffhanger.

Here’s how to download Audible books on a desktop or mobile app.

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How to download Audible books on a computer

1. Go to audible.com in a browser on your Mac or PC and log into your account, if necessary.

2. Select “Library” in the menu at the top of the screen.

3. Locate the desired audiobook and select “Download,” located under the “Other Actions” column.

You’ll then see the download notification pop up. Once it’s finished downloading, you’d be able to open the file and start listening to your audiobook on- or offline.

How to download Audible books on a mobile device

You’ll need to have a stable WiFi connection in order for your audiobook to download properly:

1. Open the Audible app on your phone and log in, if needed.

2. Tap “Library,” located either at the bottom of the screen on an iPhone or within the side menu on an Android.

3. Select “Cloud” — iPhone users will see it in orange at the top of the screen while Android users may have to tap “Library” at the top and select “Cloud” from the dropdown.

4. Locate the audiobook you want to download and tap the cover.

Once downloaded, you won’t see that download icon on top of the audiobook cover, and the cover won’t be greyed out. You would then be able listen to your audiobook on your mobile device even when you aren’t connected to a WiFi source.

Audible is the biggest name in audiobooks, but even if you’ve spent hundreds of hours listening, there are some tricks hidden beneath the surface. Here are some of the best ways to get the most of your Audible experience and even save some money in the process.

Most Popular Audiobook Service: Audible

Finding time to listen to audiobooks is easy—almost as easy as it is to find great audiobooks to…

Enroll In the Secret Silver Subscription Plan to Save Money

While you can buy audiobooks from Audible outright, the service also offers a subscription that costs $15/month. With it, you get one credit for a free book each month. If you listen to a lot of audiobooks, that might be a good deal. However, if you can stretch a single audiobook out over more than a month, then you can save a bit of money. Audible has a hidden Silver plan that costs $15 every two months, instead of every month. You still only get one free credit every time your subscription renews, but if six books a year is enough for you, then it’s a no brainer.

The catch is, Audible doesn’t advertise the Silver plan. You can’t even sign up for it without asking for it. If you want Audible Silver, head to this support link . In the first section, select My Account. In the second section choose “Change or cancel my membership” for the first drop down, then “Upgrade/downgrade my membership” from the second drop down. This will help make sure you reach the right person. You can then contact Audible by chat, phone or email there. Keep in mind, since Silver isn’t an advertised plan, you might get turned down but Audible is usually pretty accommodating.

Audiobook is a narrative version of textbook which offers a more immersive experience. If you enjoy audiobooks, Audible is one of the best choices for you. With a biggest audiobook library, you can find almost any audiobook titles you want and get the Audible app to play anywhere. However, an audiobook is usually much more expensive than a text book. It may cost you much more than you expect if you don’t pay attention to it. There are actually many hidden insider tips you may have not found out even if you are an experienced user. Here we created the helpful guide, you can learn it to get the most out of your Audible files for every penny you spend.

Best Audible Tips And Tricks You May Not Know

1. Sign up the free trial with 1 free credit

Audible offers 30 days free trial for new users to learn more about Audible audiobooks. By signing up an account, you will get a free credit automatically and you can use the credit to redeem a favorite Audible audiobook you want. In addition, after the trial period, you will still keep the Audible audiobook you purchased with the free credit. This offer is only for new Audible members. If you have already used the 1 free credit in the past, it won’t work for you again.

2. Switch to Audible subscription silver plan

The Audible golden plan subscription membership will help you get 1 free credit every month as well as other special offers at $15/month. However, sometimes you may be too busy to listen to 1 audiobooks every month, then it is better to change to the hidden silver plan. With the silver plan, it will only charge $15 every two months for 1 credit, this will help you save a fortune for the long run. To switch the plan, you can head to the Audible live support as there is not such an option offered in public.

3.Suspend your account until you need it

Sometimes if you are just busy with other things such as examination etc. , you may not have time to listen for a while, it is nice to stop paying for the subscription you aren’t using. Instead of canceling the membership, Audible allows users to put the account on hold once a year up to three months. During the period, you will still be able to listen to your purchased audiobooks, spend your credits and get discounts from the Audible store.

4. Return Audiobooks you don’t want

The great listen guarantee feature lets you exchange books you don’t love. This ensures that you don’t waste any money on any audibooks. If you find any audiobooks you don’t want within 1 year, then you can go to the account details page and click the purchase history menu. From there, you can find the order that contains the book and click ‘Return’.

5. Pay attention to special deals

Audible offers many deals time from time such as the daily deal on the Audible home page. Usually you can spend a very low price to get the Audible audiobook. Check it regularly to see if there is one book attracts you. Also, you can sign up the Daily Deal to get emails about the daily sales. In this way, you won’t miss any special books you want.

6. Remove DRM from Audible audiobooks

Audible files are DRM protected, you have to authorize them on the devices with the Audible apps before playing. It will be a big annoyance to keep authorizing the devices and you surely can’t get the most out of your Audible files. If you are tired of this annoyance, you can use a special DRM removal Tool TunesKit Audible AA/AAX Converter for Windows/Mac to help you break DRM protection from all of your Audible audiobooks and convert them to MP3 format to play freely. Here is the full tutorial: How to Remove DRM from Audible AA and AAX Files.

7. Add audio upgrades for your Kindle books

With WhisperSync, you can sync your Audible and Kindle books to pickup wherever you left off. So when you buy a Kindle book, it is better to buy both the text books and audiobooks together. In most of the time, they offer the option to buy the Audible and Kindle books as a bundle at a super low price. For the Kindle books purchased already, you can use Matchmaker, which is a great tool to scan your Kindle library to find out if they have an audiobook counterpart. If yes, you don’t need to buy the audiobooks at the original full price but just get them at a discount price.

8. Cancel your membership to get special discount

If you click the cancel membership button, Audible website will try to keep you by offering up to 50% discount for 3 months. This is is also available for the users who have used the 30 days free trial offer. With the 50% off gold membership, you can get 1 credit every month and you will only be charged as low as $7.49 every month.

9. Get cash back from your membership

There are a number of cashback sites that offer the Audible memberships. If you haven’t signed up an Audible account yet, you may try this option to save your money. Of course, not all the cashback websites are worth to try. Groupon also has deals occasionally on Audible memberships, so check there when you need to sign up or renew your Audible membership.

10. Get free Audiobooks with Prime

With an Amazon Prime account, you can get access to a lot of Audible channels for free. In addition, some Audible channels includes many free Audible audiobooks which are exclusive for Amazon Prime members. There are various free audiobooks there including sci-fi, books read by celebrities, classic and a lot more.

Conclusion

This guide contains all the most useful tips about Audible audiobooks and they are proved to work well. By learning all these Audible tips, you should be able to get better use of all the Audible audiobooks while saving your money. It is totally easy and legal. Also, the tips may update as time goes on. What do you think about these tips? You can share it with your friends if you like it. Or If you have any questions about this or you have any other better tips to share, please just leave your comments below.

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Matt Smith is an amateur writer engaged in Tuneskit in 2013. He is a movie lover who write a lot of movie reviews for many websites and blogs.

Julie Eickhoff has been working from home doing voice-overs since 2011. She has narrated and produced around 100 audiobooks and is an Audible Approved Producer. She has worked on a wide variety of audio projects and her voice has been used by Samsung, Best Western, GE, and many other big brands. Read on to see how this mom makes money narrating audiobooks from home.

Tell Us How You Got Into Doing Voice-Over Work.

Well for starters, I’m from Iowa. I have a BS degree in English and Secondary Education. Out of college, I was a middle school English teacher for one (really long) year. My career from there has been kind of crazy thanks to wonderful mentors and people who encouraged me to try new things.

Over the years, I have been an Employee Relations Manager at a Bank, the Chief Meteorologist at a TV Station (I went back to school for meteorology), co-hosted a morning radio show, I was an Advertising Executive at a TV station and a Realtor. While I was a Realtor, I also became a mother which led me down the trail of figuring out how to work from home.

And is where I currently am, working from home doing voice-overs!

How Did You Get Involved Teaching People How To Work From Home Doing Voice-Overs?

While I was a Realtor (and working 24/7) my husband starting traveling a lot and we had a baby at home. I reached my breaking point of stress. There was no way I could work as much as I did, manage the household, and have any meaningful time with my family.

I knew I needed to come up with a way to work from home. My broadcasting career came in handy here. I knew that voice artists were working from home and I knew I could do the work. I contacted a friend who knew about the biz, ordered my equipment, and started learning everything I could. The learning curve was steep and long. But eventually, I had a legitimate business and it’s been working out great ever since.

Along the way, I’ve had lots of friends and family ask how they too could learn how to do voice-overs. I decided to put my teaching, my on-camera skills, and my voice-over skills to work together and I developed the course, “Work From Home Doing Voice-Overs.”

What Do People Learn During Your Free Training Series?

The free course, Intro to Voice-Overs, will show interested students what’s involved in becoming a voice artist. It covers on a basic level what equipment you’ll need (which is surprisingly inexpensive!), your recording space in your home, how voice artists get paid and lots more. The goal of the free course is to give students enough information for them to know if this is a path they want to go down.

What are Some of the Benefits of Being a Voice-Over Artist?

Where do I begin? You can work from home, the flexibility is amazing, it’s creative, you get to run your own business, you can do it on the side of full-time.

I love being home when my daughter gets home from school, I love being there during holiday breaks and summer, I love not having to commute in bad weather (I live in Minneapolis now – we have loads of snow!), I love the ease of scheduling doctor appointments, my dog loves having me home. I have time to exercise and cook meals. I feel in control of my life, which reduces stress for everyone in my family.

Is Voice Acting for Everyone?

Probably not everyone, but gone are the days when the only voices you hear are booming male voices on the radio. We need all kinds of voices. Listen to all the places where you hear voices… web videos, telephone systems, movie theater ads, e-learning modules, audiobooks, podcasts, explainer videos, tutorials, video games, live events, etc. We need male, female, child, high, low, soft, loud, accents, motherly, salesy, sweet, motivating and on and on and on.

How Much Can the Average Voice-Over Artist Earn?

Voice artists are paid per project and the range can be quite wide depending on the usage of the project. A voice-over on a commercial that runs nationally is entirely different than a voice-over for a corporate office that is only going to be used internally. Many voice artists like to get their feet wet with audiobooks. So I will use that as an example.

With audiobooks, you can get paid two ways or a combination of both. There are royalties (where you get paid a portion every time the audiobook sells) or you can get paid per finished hour for narrating and producing the audiobook. Rates vary here, but you can easily find projects that pay $100-$200 per finished hour. So a 5-hour audiobook with a rate of $200 per finished hour would be $1,000.

Do You Primarily Narrate Audio Books, or Do You Work on Other Types of Project Too?

I’ve done a ton of audiobooks and will continue to do so, but I also do lots of other types of work… e-learning modules, radio commercials, movie theater ads, and telephone follow-up surveys.

Is There Anything Else You Would Like Readers to Know?

If you’re wanting to find a way to work from home and/or if anyone has ever told you that you have a nice voice, going through the free intro course will give you a great idea if this career is a possibility for you. Sign up for the free course, it won’t take much time, and then decide if you want to proceed.

If you do, then the full course, Work from Home doing Voice-Overs will be perfect for you. It takes you step-by-step through every part of getting up and running. I took all my research and experience and made it efficient for students to get equipment, set up their recording space, learn how to use recording software, practice mic skills, recording skills and so much more.

It’s easy to follow and fun. When you’re finished, you’re ready to move forward and I’m always willing to answer questions and help you out.

Thanks to Julie Eickhoff for sharing her story!

If you’re curious about making money narrating audiobooks, check out Julie’s free course here.

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This audiobook covers an incredible variety of strategies, ideas, techniques, and lifestyle choices that you can utilize in order to save money and use it to your advantage! Life is so much better when you have your financial situation under control! In this book you will discover what you need to do in order to live a successful, happy, and fulfilling life that is free from the constant worry of bills, debt, and other obligations! Knowing the best ways to save and manage your money is one of the most important skills you can ever master! Whether you need just a few tips or want a full-fledged plan of action, this book can help you greatly increase your overall net worth.

Here is a preview of what you’ll discover.

• The Best Investment of All Time. Yourself
• The Best Habits for Increasing Wealth
• The Different Types of Investing and How to Start
• Debt Reduction Strategies
• How to Set Financial Goals That Motivate You
• All the Different Ways You Can Save Money on Your Monthly Expenses
• Tips for Investing Your Money
• How to Make Your Money Work for You
• Much, much more!

What are you waiting for? If you are still reading this you are obviously motivated to get all the benefits this audio book has to offer. Stop thinking and take ACTION.

“We usually listen to audiobooks from a lot of free sources like our library and the free audiobook channels. But sometimes we can’t find our favorite books or narrators. So we are considering to buy some audiobooks from Audible sometimes. Do I have to have a subscription account to do that?” – Asked by Bella Wright.

Absolutely not. According to the Audible customer support, users are recommended to subscribe to a membership $14.95/month to get 1 credit every month as well as get discounts on buying extra books. Or users can buy the books at their original prices. But both ways are still a little too expensive for users who only buy books now from then. You may not want to pay the extra subscription fee or get the book at the original price. Good news is that there are a lot of other better ways to buy books with big discounts and I will show you the top 3 ways one by one.

Audible Free Trial

If you are new to Audible audiobook, then you are qualified to try the Audible out for 30 days and get an audiobook for free. This is really generous considering that each audiobook costs over $10 on average.

1. Go to the Audible desktop website on a computer.
2. Navigate the categories to find the audiobook you are exited about. Audible includes the category like fiction, fantasy, romance, kids, comedy, history, business and so on.
3. After finding the book you want, just click “Free with 30-day trial” button, it will prompt you to login with your Amazon account.
4. The first book is free, so it won’t charge you any extra money. But it requires you to input your payment method to confirm your account.
5. After getting the free book, it will be owned by yourself forever and you can cancel the Audible subscription so that it won’t charge you in 30 days.

Whispersync Deals

Whispersync for Kindle is the service which allows users to switch back and forth between reading a Kindle book and listening to the audio book version without losing the last place after buying both the eBook and audiobook. This offer a best way for us to enjoying books.

Besides that, Amazon wants to promote Whispersync, so you can buy the books which support Whispersync to save money. Normally if you buy two books together from the Whispersync page, the total price will be less than buying only 1 version. And it doesn’t require a subscription to work.

There are two ways to buy Whispersync books. The first way is that you can go to the Amazon Matchmaker page, it will automatically check the audio version counterparts of the the eBooks. If you haven’t buy any books yet, you can start to buy the eBook and audiobook together. Else if you have already bought the audiobook, you can try the other way to go back to your Audible library page to find and buy the eBook counterpart.

Normally Whispersync works automatically. After purchasing, you just need to download both eBook andiobook to your devices and start to read/listen to it.

Daily Deals

Audible offers great audiobook daily deals on their official website at lowest price which will be much lower than paying with a credit. You might pay attention to the daily deal section on the page. Also, you can subscribe to it by email, so that you won’t miss any best offers.

1. Go to the Daily Audible daily deal page, you will see a book each day on big promotion.
2. If you are interested in the book, you can click ‘Buy‘ button to buy it directly.
3. Else if you are simply don’t like the book, you can click ‘Sign up here‘ to receive the email of other deals everyday.
4. Once you find a book you like, you can buy it from the daily deal page to save big without an Audible membership.

More Tips about Audible Audiobooks

These are the best ways to help you save money when buying Audible audiobooks without a subscription. Beside these ways, you can also try the Amazon Prime to stream most Audible top-selling audiobooks for 30 days for free from the Audible channels.

Also, as for the audiobooks you bought, though you can enjoy them on most devices, but you have to authorize them due to the DRM copyright protection. There could be a big annoyance if you have multiple devices or you switch devices often. To avoid the trouble of keeping authorizing devices, you can also use the great TunesKit Audible Converter for Mac/Windows to help you remove DRM.

1 Import Audible files

You just need to drag and drop to add the Audible audiobooks. TunesKit software requires no account or membership to get rid of the DRM protection.

2 Set output format as MP3

After loading the Audible books into TunesKit conversion window, simply click the “Format” icon to select the output format as MP3 which is a universal format. In addition, you can choose the output parameters such as bit rate, codec, pitch, volume, speed and much more.

3 Strip DRM from Audible files

Now you can begin to convert the Audible AA, AAX audiobooks to MP3 by clicking “Convert” button at the bottom. Once the conversion finishes, you can freely put the converted Audible books on any devices without authorizing.

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Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of TunesKit who is obsessed about tech, movie and software.