SYNC YA Literature into Your Earphones

2 Free Audiobook Downloads Each Week until August 17, 2011

Teens and other readers of Young Adult (YA) Literature will have the opportunity to listen to bestselling titles and required reading classics this summer.   Each week  from June 23 – August 17, 2011, SYNC will offer two free audiobook downloads.  Your downloads are yours to keep and will not expire.

The audiobook pairings will include a popular YA title and a classic that connects with the YA title’s theme and is likely to show up on a student’s summer reading list.  For example, Joseph Delaney’s The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch, the first book in a popular series featuring a teen whose job is to protect ordinary folk from “ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties,” will be paired with the monster-slaying epic poem, Beowulf.

To find out when you can download titles to listen to on the run this summer, visit www.AudiobookSync.com or text syncya to 25827

SYNC Titles, Summer 2011

7/14/11-7/20/11
The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch
by Joseph Delaney
Beowulf
by Francis B. Gummere [Trans.]

7/21/11-7/27/11
Chanda’s Secrets by Allan Stratton
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

7/28/11-8/3/11
Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari
Rescue: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea by Dorcas S. Miller [Ed.]

8/4/11-8/10/11
Immortal by Gillian Shields
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

8/11/11-8/17/11
Storm Runners by Roland Smith
The Cay by Theodore Taylor

Baen offers Free Fantasy and Science Fiction ebooks

Baen Books is now making available — for free — a number of its titles in electronic format. They’re calling it the Baen Free Library. Anyone who wishes can read these titles online — no conditions, no strings attached. (Later they may ask for  an extremely simple, name & email only, registration. ) Or, if you prefer, you can download the books in one of several formats. Again, with no conditions or strings attached. (URLs to sites which offer the readers for these format are also listed. ) They currently offer 120 ebooks by 23 authors. Author Eric Flint serves as their librarian.  This may serve as a nice supplement to our own Ohio eBook Project.