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| blackverve Senior Member Canada Joined 4543 days ago 40 posts - 46 votes Studies: German | Message 1 of 13 30 January 2012 at 7:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm frustrated by the fact that Amazon's German branch audible.de just told me that I can't buy audiobooks that are in German with a Canadian address but that I can buy the Eng. ones. I've had it. I want to learn how to pronounce the words as I read but now I can never do that. Sigh.
How does everyone go about buying quality downloadable German audiobooks without a German address? Is there a sneaky way? Alas, I have no German pals! I'm looking for German audiobooks of Der Kleine Prinz, Die Weisse Rose, Hemingway, Kafka, the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy... Edited by blackverve on 31 January 2012 at 5:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5131 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes  Speaks: German*, English | Message 2 of 13 30 January 2012 at 9:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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audible.de seems to be less strict. See this older post for details.
Current rebate codes can be found here and elsewhere on the Internet. (Clicking on a rebate link will take you to the new member signup web page.) Edited by Doitsujin on 30 January 2012 at 9:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| blackverve Senior Member Canada Joined 4543 days ago 40 posts - 46 votes Studies: German | Message 3 of 13 30 January 2012 at 11:11pm | IP Logged | ||
Audible's customer rep just emailed me today about not being able to download most German content from a Canadian address so what do you mean they are less atrict? Thanks for the free books but I still need to use a credit card to pay for new books. Edited by blackverve on 30 January 2012 at 11:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6363 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 4 of 13 31 January 2012 at 1:23am | IP Logged | ||
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you can find them on amazon.com here or if you have the ISBN from the German site you can search with that.
If nothing works, I'm sure someone living in Germany that travel to the US can help ... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| blackverve Senior Member Canada Joined 4543 days ago 40 posts - 46 votes Studies: German | Message 5 of 13 02 February 2012 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, but I'm looking for downloadable audiobooks as Canada customs always has hefty fees for imports. Edited by blackverve on 03 February 2012 at 12:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6250 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 6 of 13 02 February 2012 at 11:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Another option is to stick to gratis audiobooks, such as those at theateraufcd.
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| MonteCristo Bilingual Diglot Newbie Australia Joined 6527 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans* Studies: German | Message 7 of 13 07 March 2012 at 12:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Either the person from the German branch is mistaken or this is a Canadian thing. I live in Australia and have an Amazon.com account (Audible is a subsidiary of Amazon) and just signed up with Audible.de and have already downloaded my first German book (Das Lied von Eis und Feuer) without any problem. I'm listening to it on my iPod as I'm typing this...
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| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6754 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 8 of 13 07 March 2012 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||
I was able to buy from http://sofort-portale.de/ a couple of years ago. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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