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by Paton Jackson, Pat

1. Free trials: There are some online shops which offer a free trial agreement, meaning you pay nothing or you can get your money back if you are dissatisfied with the products you get. The free trial agreement could be found for audio book cd and for downloadable audio books. Getting free
audio books by this method is easy and could be down in no time. However, there are some cons:
First, we believe there might be an ethical problem knowing from the beginning that no money is going to be paid for the product and that the online audio book service will be used to get a free audio book.

Secondly, not all audio books; titles are offered for the free trial. Therefore, you might get free audio books but not the ones you looked for.

And the last con is that some of the free trial periods are too short to listen to the audio book. Therefore, you might get free audio books but have no time to listen to them.

2. File sharing services: There are numerous file sharing services on the net (Most use p2p technologies) that allow downloading files for free. We have founded more than 100 free audio books ready to download from these sites. However, it took us a lot of time to find them and the bandwidth rate was slow.

3. Search engines: You could find a lot of free audio books by just searching for the right sites. Look for the small sits by typing the exact title you want and the phrase: “free audio book”. For example, if you are looking for an Harry Potter audio book just type : “Harry Potter” + “Free audio book”.

4. Markets – you can find audio books to swap with other goods in some flea markets and second hand shops.
To sum up, there are no free presents. Although, there are ways to get free audio books, we think it is better to pay a couple of bucks for online audio book rental services – the worthwhile method of getting nearly free audio books.

Who says you must spend a fortune to benefit from the wonder of audio books?
I agree that most audio book stores are in the business of making profit, so won't be willing to give out audio books for free, but there are other sources to get completely free audio books.
Below are some of them:
1. Libraries. You won't believe it but many libraries are now catching up on the incredible value of audio books and so are embracing the technology.
These libraries now have audio book rental services where users can download audio books from the comfort of their homes or offices.
So, visit the website of your local library or give them a call to enquire if they offer this service or not. If they don't, search the Internet for libraries that do.
There are many of them available and if your search is intensive you might find what you are looking for, without having to cough up the money needed to purchase your own copies.
2. Audio book rental websites. There are audio book rental websites that allow users to download some of their audio books for free, to get a feel of the benefits of being members.
One of the most popular of these services if the Los Angeles based Jiggerbug.com. They offer completely free trials of some of their audio book titles for members to download and even burn to their CDs.
Note that you are only permitted to use these audio books for your own personal use and not for commercial purposes. If you are caught burning these audio books into CDs to sell, it will be considered a very serious criminal offence.
3. Check out Project Gutenberg. You can visit Project Gutenberg.org for completely free computer generated audio books.
These are other audio book stores that don't give users complete versions of their audio books for free, but give free excerpts. These excerpts can be a few minutes to more than 30 minutes.
These audio book stores do this to give users a feel of what the complete audio book contains.
Most times you would feel so engrossed into the audio book that when it stops you would want to do anything you can to buy the complete audio book. This is a good technique that works for many audio book stores.
So, who says you must pay each time to get free audio books?

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