Free Classics from Audible

Amazon has started setting up a number of great deals for the audiobook companions to ebooks purchased at Amazon and any book you have previously published that gets linked will qualify. Many of the choices are $3.95 or less (which is a huge bargain compared to the cost for most audiobooks - this will mean you can often buy the ebook and the audiobook for less than the cost of the audiobook alone). Since this is a joint Amazon/Audible deal, you won't have to have any type of paid membership at Audible either (note that I can't check for geographic restrictions on this, but assume there may be some, due to publisher arrangements in various countries). To kick things off, they have set up a number of FREE companion selections for some of the free public domain classics. Even if the formatting is off on the ebook, these audiobooks are professional performances and you'll want to add at least a few of them to your account.

To add these to your account, first "buy" the free ebook at Amazon, then click thru to the Audible listing and add that selection to your cart. Make sure that you uncheck the box to use a credit, if you do have a paid membership, then click on Update. Once you are sure that you don't have the box checked and the price is still showing as free, click to complete your order (you'll have to log in and confirm; on the confirmation page, you can double check that no credits are going to be used). Once my order was completed, I was dumped into a page wanting me to install software - if you've used Audible in the past, just ignore that page and go to your library to download or send to your Kindle, as you have always done. You can get that message to go away forever by turning off Software Verification under Account Details.

This is a list of the ones that have been discovered so far, including the 27 titles on Amazon's official list:

Free eBook at Amazon	Free Companion Audiobook
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy	narration by Simon Vance
Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe	narration by Buck Schirner
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll	narration by Jim Dale
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë	narration by Anne Flosnik
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale, by Herman Melville	narration by Frank Muller
The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas	narration by John Lee
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson	narration by Alfred Molina
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade, by Mark Twain	narration by Elijah Wood
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde	narration by Simon Prebble
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens	narration by Simon Vance
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott	narration by Kate Reading
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum	narration by Anne Hathaway
Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	narration by Simon Vance
Dracula, by Bram Stoker	narration by Alan Cumming, Tim Curry & full cast
White Fang, by Jack London	narration by Bob Thomley
Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift	narration by David Hyde Pierce
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, by Agatha Christie	narration by David Suchet
Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell	narration by Nathaniel Parker
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame	narration by Shelly Frasier
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackera	narration by John Castle
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins	narration by James Langton
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by, by James Joyce	narration by John Lee
The Sign of the Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	narration by Patrick Tull
House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton	narration by Wanda McCaddon
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton	narration by Scott Brick
Peter and Wendy, by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie and F. D. Bedford	narration by Jim Dale
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë and F. H. (Frederick Henry) Townsend	narration by Susan Ericksen
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe	narration by Davina Porter
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens	narration by Simon Vance

Inexpensive ebooks with free audiobooks:

eBook at Amazon	Free Companion Audiobook
Siddhartha [with Biographical Introduction] ($1.75), by Herman Hesse and Hilda Rosner (Translator)	narration by David Cross
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad ($1.42)	narration by Kenneth Branagh
Pride and Prejudice, Annotated, by Jane Austen ($6.99; a no longer free version is also linked to the free Audible edition)	narration by Lindsay Duncan

I'll add to the list as more are found (and get all the ones on the list added, later today), Update: I've added all the current titles, but will add any more as they turn up, so you might want to bookmark the post to come back to later.