Audio Books Affiliate Program

Paulo Coelho’s enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world.

This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an Alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a meditation on the treasures found within. Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts.

For the month of July 2008 you can download this magnificient audio book for the specially discounted price of ONLY $13.04!

The Alchimist - Paulo Coelho - Audio Book at Special Discount Price

Marcus Luttrell

Marcus Luttrell is a United States Navy SEAL and an author of a highly acclaimed book: ‘Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10′. Very strong book!

Timothy Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss is an American writer and entrepreneur. His Bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek is now also available as a downloadable audio book: Timothy Ferriss - The 4-Hour Workweek - Audio Book download. If you thought that a four hour work week was not possible, then you need to listen to this guy. Even if you then end up working 16 hours a week, this is still a great improvement over the 40 plus hours your work now!

Clive Cussler

Clive Cussler is an American author of adventure novels. Now some of his great adventure books are also available as downloadable audio books: Clive Cussler MP3 audio books downloads online. The New York Post called him “just about the best storyteller in the business.

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens is a British-American author, journalist and literary critic. He writes or wrote columns in Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and the Wall Street Journal. His provocative book ‘God is not great’ let’s you think and obviously has stirred up a lot of controversy.

Anne Enright

Anne Enright is a Booker Prize-winning Irish author. With her novel ‘The Gathering’ she won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Soon her books will also be available as downloadable audio books: Anne Enright MP3 Audio Books Download Online

R A Salvatore

R A Salvatore is an American author of fantasy novels. Nos some of his great novels are also available as downloadable audio books: R A Salvatore MP3 Audio Books Downloads. I specifically like ‘Road of the Patriarch’

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell is an American economist, political writer, and commentator. His books about the economy and the political system have been and are the basis of many public discussions of today’s systems. Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the recipient of many awards and prizes.

Jeremy Scahill

Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author. His latest book about the private army in Iraq - Blackwater - is rising in the bestseller lists around the world. You will not believe what you hear, this is like the KKC, the Mafia and a few similar hideous systems all put into one!

Rhonda Byrne

Rhonda Byrne is an Australian author. She is best known for her book ‘The Secret’, a self-help book and movie. ‘The Secret’ is available as online download, you can grab it online: The Secret - Rhonda Byrne - Audio book download. A must read!

Clive Barker

Clive Barker is a British author of horror fiction and mystery novels. Now some of his great books are also available as downloadable audiobooks: Clive Barker Audio Books Download. My favourite from Clive is ‘Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War’

Michael F. Roizen

Michael F. Roizen, MD, is cofounder of RealAge and chairman of the RealAge Scientific Advisory Board. He is the author of many health related books. Now some of his books are also available as donwloadable audio books: Michael F. Roizen MP3 Audio Books. You - The Owner’s Manual and his other ‘You’-books are true eye openers!

Richard Russo

Richard Russo is an American author and Pulitzer Prize winner. Now some of his great books are also avaialbe as downloadable audio books: Richard Russo MP3 Audio Books Downloads

Dorothea Benton Frank

Dorothea Benton Frank is an American New York Times best selling author. Now her great novels are also available online as downloadable audio books: Dorothea Benton Frank MP3 Audio Books Online

Vince Flynn

Vince Flynn is an American author of political thriller novels. Some of his novels made the best seller lists. Now his highly captivating books are also available as downloadable audio books: Vince Flynn MP3 Audio Books Downloads Online

Dinesh D’Souza

Dinesh D’Souza is the author of numerous New York Times best selling books and one of the most prolific and prominent conservative writers and speakers in the United States. Some of his notable books ara now also availabla as downloadable audio…

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is espcially known through his book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’. Now his great books are also available as downloadable audio books: Douglas Adams MP3 Audio Book…

David Halberstam

David Halberstam was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Now some of his great reports and books are available as downloadable audio books: David Halberstam MP3 Audio Books Downloads Online

Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale was a Protestant preacher and author. His best known book is ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’. The books of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale are now also available as doenloadable MP3 audio books online: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale -…

Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie was an American writer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement. His books and tips are still as valid and valuable as they were when Carnegie wrote them many years ago. Now, his great books are also available as download…

Stephen R. Covey

Stephen R. Covey is the author of the international best selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Some of his books are also available as downloadable audio books: Stephen R. Covey MP3 Audio Books downloads

Wallace D. Wattles

Wallace D. Wattles was an American author. His mot known book is ‘The Science of Getting Rich’, a self help book that holds advice that is still very much up to date and valid. His books are now also availabe as audio books, you can download them onl…

Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson is an American author. His science fiction books are translated into many languages. His ‘Chronolgy Protection Case’ is also availabel as a dowwnloadable MP3 audio book. You can listen to a sound sample : Paul Levinson - Science Fiction

Michael E. Gerber

Michael E. Gerber is a leading small business consultant and author. His well known books The E-Myth Revisited and E Myth Mastery have hit the bestseller lists everywhere. These great books are now also available as downloadable MP3 audio books…

Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett is an American author. Her books are now also available as downloadable audio books: Ann Patchett MP3 audio Books Downloads

James Allen

James Allen was a British philosophical author. His book ‘As A Man Thinketh’ is still very much up-to-date and read. James Allen Audio Books Download

Great news for David Baldacci fans: There are 24 ( yes, twentyfour!) hours of David Baldacci novels ready for you. This is a ‘boxed’ version with the first five David Baldacci books all in one hughe audio books download!

The books that are included are:

- Absolute Power
- Total Control
- The Winner
- Saving Faith
- The Simple Truth

Listen to a sample recording online here: Baldacci First Five Download Set. If you like what you hear, you can immediately download the entire audio file too!

A dramatized audio Bible allows you to do more Bible ‘reading’. Just think of all the time you spend idle when you are on your commute, waiting somewhere or doing manual chores that leave your brain and spirit empty.If you belong to the people who aspire to read the Bible cover to cover, then you know that this is quite a big undertaking and a major time commitment that can take years.

There may be a way to reach your gola earlier: listening to an audio Bible can dramatically speed up the time required to make it through the Holy Bible. If you can make just thirty minutes a day available, you can make it through the New Testament in about a month and half. Dramtized MP3 audio Bibles allow you also to easily return to sections that are important to you and relisten to them over and over again.

Audio Bibles also exist in specific editions for children, i.e. the NIrV Little Kids Adventure Audio Bible. There are different Bible versions for adults in audio format, i.e. the NIV Dramatized Audio Bible

Twelve specially selected favourite love poems, read by acclaimed actors Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter are available as a love audio book: Valentines Poems - A Dozen Red Roses - downloadable audio files for iPod and other MP3 players

This literary bouquet of blooms includes Andrew Marvell’s classic To His Coy Mistress, a beautiful extract from The Song of Solomon, Christina Rossetti’s joyful A Birthday, and Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.

As well, there are Edward Fitzgerald’s meditations from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Lear’s comic verse The Owl and The Pussycat, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s If Thou Must Love Me, John Donne’s The Sunne Rising and lines from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Completing the dozen are Robert Burns’ My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose, Robert Herrick’s Delight in Disorder and Shakespeare’s Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is an audio that you should not miss! The life philosophy tips and hints how to improve your own life and enjoy a much more positive einvironment are a must read on in this case a ‘must hear’ audio!

Many customers have taken advantage of the special offer price already, there are a few days left for you to do likewise: Till end of April the special, reduced price is still available. Instead of $29.95 for the Hardcopy (CD) version you can download the audiobook for only $13.81.

Teens are people who are at a personal intersection in their life with many forks and possibilities where to continue their life’s flow. Problem is, they don’t really know yet, so they’ll have to try. And we adults think they should not try but simply listen to us old ones…

Conflict is preprogrammed all the way and in many familes the up to then so harmonious family life is all of a sudden in turmoil and communication slowly or rapidly goes down the drain. Not good and not really necessary. Yes, there will be discussions and disputes with your teenager, that’s OK. But it does not need to end in final and total disagreement, constant fights etc.

I have rencently listened to three excellent audio books that give some really good tips and examples how teenagers and their parents can deal with each other:

• Boundaries with Teens by Dr. John Townsend
• How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
• Teenage Parenting 101 by Don Smith

All three audiobooks should be listened to by parents and teenagers. Why not give one of these to your teen so that he or she can listen to these tips on their iPod?

When you’re starting to look into the classic literature and especially Shakespeare, you’ll find out that there are many different recordings of the Bard’s plays online. Personally I find that the BBC Audiobook versions are often the ones I like best. But there are other editors who do a good job.

Buying audio books just by the nice pics on the front of the CD has never been my idea of a good buy. Therefore I prefer to visit sites that let me listen to samples. One such site is ShakespeareAudioBook.com which has a great comparative page with the Tragedies written by Shakespeare .

Listening to the samples you get a good idea what the entire recording will be like and I’ve yet to regret a choice I made that way. More sites should do this!

The main site with the products - i.e. the audio books - for the affiliate program starts to pick up speed real nice. Writing an occasional blog entry and having a few domains up that point to the great crime audio books that can be downloaded from there starts to get results.

Affiliates start to build their web pages with the program too. We see a lot more activity and the first sales by affiliates come in as well. I’ll start an ‘friends of AudioBooksCorner’ page with links out to them next week.

We have a lot of New York times bestseller authors in the program. I’m trying to list some of them too and link in to the site, this will get some additional traffic. One thing I know is that I’ll become one of my own best customer, these audios are great!

It’s Sunday evening, so I keep this post short, more next week!