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04 February 2008 at 4:52pm | IP Logged

Fairly frequently, people mention commercial audiobook sites that they are impressed with on these forums. It seems a bit of a waste to not gather any of this in one place for convenient reference. For free audiobooks and other types of resources, see the list of resources list thread.

Guidelines:
- It's better if, before recommending a site, you've actually used it, and had a favorable experience.
- It's better if you don't have any commercial tie to it, or if you do, disclose it.

www.audible.com(linqvist)(English, some Spanish)

www.audible.fr(linqvist)(French)

Audioteka.pl(AniaR)(Polish)

Books on Tape(atamagaii)(English)

fonolibro(atamagaii)(Spanish)

www.hoerjuwel.de(shapd)(German)

shapd wrote:

I recently found a commercial German audiobook site which may be useful. It has recordings in several Western and Eastern European languages, including Russian, Polish and Hungarian, and Chinese. It also has many audiobooks in the major Western European languages graded according to the EU fluency guidelines. These have the original text and explanatory notes, so if you know sufficent German to use them they could be a useful bridge to other languages. The site is
www.hoerjuwel.de

Internet Bookshop (newyorkeric) (Italian)

newyorkeric wrote:

I've used Internet Bookshop twice now to buy Italian books and audiobooks. I'm been very happy with their services.

newyorkeric wrote:

I haven't found any section dedicated to audiobooks so I just enter "audiolibro" in the search window.

Emons (newyorkeric) (Italian)

newyorkeric wrote:

Good selection and good readings by Italian actors.

Il narratore(atamagaii)(Italian)

Livraphone(AniaR)(French)

AniaR wrote:

The best PROFESSIONAL French audiobooks are to be found here:

http://www.livraphone.com/

Orange books(AniaR)(Finnish)

http://www.priviet.com/(OlafP)(Russian)

OlafP wrote:

Huge selection of original works and translations, all the Russian classics, reasonable prices, quick delivery, and overall professional impression.

I ordered a bunch of Dostoevsky and Chekhov disks, which were sent the next day. Judging by the confirmation mail the shop seems to be run by a single Russian living in the US, who invests a lot of passion into the project. This will be my first address for Russian audiobooks.

Recorded Books(atamagaii)(English, Spanish)

biki2 wrote:

They also have 250+ Spanish audiobooks:

http://www.recordedbooks.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=rb.advance d_search_books&imprint=6

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German recommendations.

frenkeld wrote:

Two commercial German audiobook sites I have used for downloadable audibooks are:

http://www.claudio.de/
and
http://soforthoeren.de/

For ordering audiobooks on CD's I have only used Amazon.de, but claudio.de site offers them too.

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Recommendations for finding out the titles of good recorded books.

AniaR wrote:

Russian:
The best place to find out what audioobooks are available and buy them... somewhere else.
http://abook-club.ru/forum/

Edited by newyorkeric on 08 November 2011 at 4:18am
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I've updated this thread with AniaR's suggestion of Livraphone. More suggestions are welcome.

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Added, thank you.

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www.audible.com(English, some Spanish)
www.audible.fr (French)
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linqvist wrote:

www.audible.com(English, some Spanish)
www.audible.fr (French)

Added, thanks.

Any experiences with them, for the sake of anyone reading this thread?

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