Amazon Is Giving Away Free Audiobooks With This Purchase Ahead of Black Friday

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Reading just got cheaper with Audible and Amazon Music Unlimited‘s new collaboration. Starting on November 20, 2024, Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers will also have access to Audible for free—yes, free—on the same app.

How much is Amazon Music Unlimited?

To make the deal even more sweet, new subscribers can try Amazon Music Unlimited for three months for free. After the three-month trial ends, Amazon Music Unlimited reverts to its original price of $10.99 per month or $9.99 per month for Prime members. (Prime itself costs $14.99 per month or $139 per year.) Read on for step-by-step instructions on how to sign up for Amazon Music Unlimited.

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1. Visit Amazon Music Unlimited‘s page on Amazon
2. Click “Try it FREE”
3. Log into or create your Amazon account
4. Check out and start listening to Amazon Music Unlimited

How does Audible on Amazon Music Unlimited work?

Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers can listen to one book (of any length) from Audible per month. If subscribers want more than one Audible audiobook within a single billing cycle, they will need to purchase them separately.

Be advised that the benefit of accessing one Audible audiobook per month is not available on Amazon Music Prime, the free music service for Prime members that limited to shuffle-play mode for songs based on artist, album or playlist.

“This is a big step for Amazon Music Unlimited becoming an all-audio service. We look at this as fundamentally redefining the value proposition” of the service, said Steve Boom, Amazon’s VP of Audio, Twitch and Games, told Variety in November 2024. “We see this as expanding the audiobook market to more casual listeners.” One of the goals, he said, is to provide an additional differentiation to retain subscribers longer.

What else does Amazon Music Unlimited include?

Along with offering one Audible audiobook per month, Amazon Music Unlimited also includes access to more than 100 million songs in HD audio and hundreds of thousands of podcasts ad-free in its listening library. Amazon Music Unlimited also offers offline listening, so users can download music to listen to without an internet connection, as well as access to a growing catalog of content masterd in Dolby Atmos and 360 Reality Audio.

Subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited here.