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If you are a K-12 teacher in the United States, it’s time for YOUR vote on the Top 20 Children’s Audiobooks. From Recorded Books K-12 is a contest which requires you to submit your 20 favourite audiobooks for children. When you enter, you are automatically entered to win the grand prize! Contest closes May 30, 2010. Learn more.

Not a teacher? The website also offers insightful information about the benefits of audiobooks for a child’s development.

For an excellent, comprehensive list of children’s audiobooks you can rent, download or buy Click here

Happy Listening

Finally! The 2010 Audie Awards Have Arrived!

Tonight – May 25th – the 2010 Audies are going to be taking place. How exciting!
Simply Audiobooks would like to extend good luck to all nominees.

Click HERE to see the full list of nominees on the Audio Publisher’s Association Audie Awards page.

To experience for yourself what true audiobook excellence sounds like, click HERE to view the nominee titles that Simply Audiobooks has available for rent or download.

Who are you rooting for? Feel free to post comments here of your favorite titles, authors, narrators, and more.
On the Audiobook Community? Find all the Audie Award hype on it today!

Congratulations to all nominees and best of luck tonight!

Happy Listening… to Excellence.

David Baldacci, author of epic thriller Deliver Us from Evil, is offering an online book signing that ends today!

“David and the office staff have developed this online signing for those who are unable to attend a book signing in person. Now, regardless of where you live, you have an opportunity to personalize your favorite David Baldacci novels — for yourself or as a gift for someone else.

The online book signing for Deliver Us From Evil begins April 20 and continues until May 21, 2010… You will pay nothing for this online book signing experience. David and the office staff are more than happy to print the bookplates and mail them to you free of charge, even if you live outside the United States. It’s one way David can say “Thanks” for your loyalty and interest in his books.”

To read the rest of this article and receive your FREE online book signing, visit http://davidbaldacci.com/online-signing today!

To see a full list of David Baldacci’s books, Click Here

To Rent or Download Deliver Us From Evil, Click Here

Relax this weekend with Gail Seymour’s “Just Relax”

In this world’s hustle bustle, it can be hard to sit back, relax, have a good sleep, or even just enjoy the good moments that can be hard to find when life gets so stressful.

Allow Gail Seymour to walk you through her self-narrated audiobook, “Just Relax” as she helps you unlock the key to relieving anxiety, insomnia, stress, restlessness, chronic fatigue, or even bad nerves. Not only is this audiobook a spoken self-help tool, but it also has sound therapy (healing tones that will help you in relaxation).

This audiobook has been said to be highly effective! And you work hard – so treat yourself to what you deserve – the ability to RELAX.

Rent “Just Relax” today for yourself if you feel you’re in the need for a kick start to relaxing, or help out a friend and suggest this audiobook to them.

Happy (and Blissful) Listening.

Love Audiobooks? Join us on the Audiobook Community!

You’re passionate about audiobooks and we are too. Come join the Audiobook Community – a social network site for audiobook lovers complete with upcoming events in the audiobook world and other great resources. We just joined yesterday!

There are even narrators, authors, and audiobook campaigns like “Get Caught Listening” that are members.

Join today – it’s free! Don’t forget to add Simply Audiobooks as a friend. See you there.

Happy Listening.

Audiobooks: Turning the Print into Story-telling Voices

I could never put down how amazing printed books are – it’s always fascinating being able to imagine the voices and sounds of a story.

But unlike print, audiobooks possess a unique ability to bring a story to life through story-telling voices that offer a whole new level of emotion, of defining characters, and of reader’s experience.

Did you know? Hearing the words vs. reading the words allow your brain to experience the story with a higher level of focus: your brain does not have to decipher the letters, words, punctuation, or sentence structure that only text possesses. Eliminating these mental processes associated with this allows us to be conscious of the sounds and rhythms we otherwise wouldn’t be able to notice. It’s the audio that offers a unique enhancement to storytelling.

Don’t get me wrong – reading words is highly beneficial too. But for a completely different reading experience, an audiobook offers something unique and beautiful that you have to hear for yourself to fully understand.

If you haven’t already – try for yourself today by renting or downloading one of your favorite titles on Simply Audiobooks.

Happy Listening.

Last night I was trying to find great audiobooks for any reader to enjoy. Oprah’s book club provided me with a top ten meaningful books, published back in April. Here are my top five Simply Audiobooks offers!

“When we asked Oprah to pick…books she’s read in the past decade that have mattered to her most, she [offered] a sampler of delightful titles that have…managed to teach her – and all of us – a few things”

On the list are:

1. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver Rent Today
2. Night – Elie Wiesel Rent Today
3. The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett Rent Today
4. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison Rent or Download Today
5. The Known World – Edward P. Jones Rent or Download Today

Of these five, my favourite is definitely Ken Follett’s, The Pillars of the Earth. Listen as the story takes you through the passage of time where friends and enemies are forged, and violence takes its toll.

Here’s the link. Enjoy!

http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Oprahs-Favorite-Books-from-the-Past-Decade

Happy Birthday Robert Pattinson!
…I thought Edward Cullen never aged?

Sadly, the actor behind the flawless beauty of Edward Cullen does in fact age. But Simply Audiobooks would like to extend a Happy Birthday to Robert Pattinson – who today, on May 13th 2010 – has turned 24!

The world is sitting in painful anticipation as we await the theatrical release of Eclipse, coming to theaters June 30, 2010 based on the book Eclipse from the Twilight saga by Stephanie Meyer.

To view the Eclipse trailer on YouTube, click here.

Celebrate Robert Pattinson’s birthday with a perfect gift for someone else! Visit our Gift Center, or if you haven’t read the story yourself yet, get listening and rent the audiobook – or others alike from the series – today.

For He’s a Jolly-Good Fellow!

10 Benefits of Reading Books With Your Ears

If you are already a fan of audiobooks, you will have already experienced a lot of the benefits they have to offer. But there are also a lot of benefits you may not have seen before, and you may even be able to add your own!

What benefits have you found while using audiobooks? Become a fan on our Facebook page and post your response.

1. Audiobooks save you time and help you pass the time
You can now listen to a novel on your commute, while traveling, or anything. Audio books will help entertain your brain while doing something, and will actually save you time as you now can read virtually anywhere!

2. Audiobooks make reading more accessible
Those who are visually impaired, older, ill, or even those who are not strong readers can still enjoy almost any book that their heart desires.

3. Audiobooks are educational
Offering life enrichment, lessons, and entertainment.

4. Audiobooks improve literacy and vocabulary, especially for children
For children, audiobooks do not need to match a child’s reading level. They can be exposed to books of a higher reading level without even having to see the words so they can be exposed to them and gain an understanding of them and their pronunciation. All without the frustration of getting stuck on that difficult word!

5. Audiobooks save paper!

6. Audiobooks emphasize emotion
Reading a novel with your ears versus your eyes gives you the best understanding of the emotion that is being conveyed through the text by the narrator and characters conveying the intended emotion through their voices and their timing.

7 . Audiobooks are one of the most effective ways of learning a new language
No more guessing of how a word should be pronounced, hear it correctly the first time and learn the language in one of the most effective methods possible.

8. Audiobooks can allow groups to listen all at once and bring groups together
Imagine your family on the drive to the cottage. Instead of one person hogging the book the whole way up or getting tired while reading it aloud, your family can experience the same story all at once and talk about points of discussion.

9. Audiobooks are portable
You can take them anywhere with you, especially if you have an mp3 download – you can put it on your ipod and literally go anywhere and read. (On a run, while mowing your lawn or gardening, cleaning the house, anything).

10. Audiobooks sometimes have their own author narrate them
Giving you the best connection possible to the novel, the author, and the intended message.

Search for your favorite books on Simply Audiobooks today to experience these benefits for yourself.

10-10-10 – by Suzy Welch

Making big decisions in life affects all that is around us, and that can be a scary thought. No matter who you are – you will be making decisions in this life, and it can be intimidating. But we cannot be scared of the unknown when making decisions.

Suzy Welch teachers her readers how to carefully plan out good decision-making and its effects in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years.

Welch discusses how it is time for us to live a life lead by ourselves, and to leave behind the impulses, distractions, and stresses that we immerse ourselves in. Replace all the negative side effects associated with decision making with positive emotions and outlooks. Eventually, decision-making may not be as terrifying as we make it out to be.

Narrated by Suzy Welch herself, download or rent this audio book to hear for yourself this transforming idea!