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| Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4858 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French | Message 9 of 13 08 March 2012 at 4:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Sounds strange, I'm from Norway and buy from audible.de
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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4678 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 10 of 13 08 March 2012 at 4:37am | IP Logged | ||
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I downloaded a free German audiobook from audible.de today here in the US using my amazon.com login info
(onto my iPhone audible app, which lets you select which store to use, audible.com, audible.de, etc). I guess it's possible Canada is just odd, of course. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Uniceros Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4583 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: German, Latin, French | Message 11 of 13 02 June 2012 at 4:32am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm in the US and recently downloaded an audiobook from here:
Libri.de 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4818 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 12 of 13 10 June 2012 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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There is also of course librivox.org, but that's only public domain works, and doesn't
solve the problem for more modern works. Not so much audiobooks, but I noticed that amazon.de also refuses to sell me kindle books in German, even the free ones provided in conjunction with gutenberg.spiegel.de. Fortunately, I seem to be able to get almost all of these via amazon.co.uk, with the puzzling exception of "Effi Briest", for which they only want to sell me a variety of chargeable versions, even though I know full well there is a free PD version on gutenberg.spiegel.de. This isn't really a problem,as one can easily get it from gutenberg.org, but it's slightly odd, and who knows, the version on gutenberg.spiegel.de might be "better" in some way. I think that amazon.co.uk will sell me at least some German audiobooks, but I don't know if I could get the full range that I might have been able to get on amazon.de. I'm not sure if there is a specific Canadian amazon, or do you just use amazon.com normally. It might be worth seeing what (if anything) you can get in German from your normal amazon. These petty restrictions are annoying though. @Blackverve: I'll send you a PM a little bit later with some other ideas. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4818 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 13 of 13 11 June 2012 at 2:14am | IP Logged | ||
That's useful; I didn't know about them. I see they have some e-books in both E-pub and PDF. Does anyone know if their PDF's are DRM-protected? I've seen it stated that you can't read a DRM-protected e-book on a PC that doesn't have a network connection, which seems a bit bizarre. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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