Tag: audiobooks

October Staff Pick – Bitch: On the Female of the Species

September 30, 2022
by Robin Wood

Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke (Basic Books), picked by bookseller Riona Jean

Do you love weird animal facts? Do you love academia? Do you love sticking it to the patriarchy?

This book boasts all three with panache and grace.

Cooke is an accomplished zoologist who interviews a bevy of scientists across the globe in order to expose the glaring gap in knowledge about the female of any species (from insects to mammals to birds). Her writing is feisty, fierce, and witty without being grandiose or over-embellishing facts.

Learn about murderous meerkats, polyamorous birds, and frisky bonobos, all while discovering how scientific studies contradicting the patriarchy have been dismissed, hidden, or unfunded. I can’t get this book into your paws fast enough!

~ Riona Jean

Riona enjoyed this book as an audiobook (read by the author). Get it from our audiobook partner, Libro.fm. Bitch: On the Female of the Species (audiobook)

Get and give free audiobooks for Independent Bookstore Day

April 22, 2019
by Robin Wood

This Independent Bookstore Day, we want to thank all of our customers, fans and friends for supporting Books & Books @ The Studios and our friends at independent digital audiobook provider Libro.fm are helping us do that with a gift of free audiobooks. Simply create your free Libro.fm account before April 27th and you’ll receive free audiobooks. There is no cost or commitment required. Follow this link to create your account: https://libro.fm/bookskw

Already have a Libro.fm account?

If you already have a Libro.fm account, you’ll get an email on Independent Bookstore Day with your free audiobooks. Get the audiobooks for yourself by adding any (or all!) of the free audiobooks to your cart and checking out.

You can also use this opportunity to introduce your bookish friends to Libro.fm by gifting them these free books. To send the free gifts, start a new shopping experience and add any (or all!) of the free audiobooks as “gifts”. When you checkout, you’ll get to enter the email address and have the option to add a special note for the recipient. You can gift these free audiobooks as many times as you like, but the offer is only valid on Saturday, April 27th for Bookstore Day. Note: The recipient does NOT need to redeem the free audiobooks by 4/27; the gifts will be sent immediately.

 

Farewell, Snowbirds. Fear not.

June 14, 2018
by George Cooper

Oh snowbirds, we know you’re away for the summer. There’s no shame in that; even Conchs need a break from the rock. But Books & Books @ The Studios has your back. When you’re not in Key West, we’re here to serve your reading needs.

Our web site BooksandBooksKW.com provides news of what’s happening with weekly updates on new books, and links to our offsite resources. Just click “Can’t Get to the Shop,” where you’ll find a link to our full service online bookstore supplying hardcover and paperback books, as well as links to our new Ebook service from Kobo and our audiobook service from Libro.fm.

The online store is not limited to the 5,000 titles in stock of the store, but includes an inventory of over nine million books, almost everything that’s in print. We’ll ship anything to you without charge, and without sales tax (unless you’re in Florida or New York).

Our digital ebook and audiobook services are equally comprehensive, drawing on the resources of the online seller Kobo for ebooks and Libro.fm for audiobooks. You’ll be pleased to know that the prices charged for either kind of digital book is usually the same as that charged by the giant online bookstores (no names mentioned). And we offer the same instant download. The content of the digital books (and the reading voice in the case of audiobooks) is the same. The big difference is that Books & Books @ The Studios shares in the revenue. So if you shop locally when you’re in town, why not do it when you’re away?

A few tips:
Ebooks – Buy your books via the link at shop.booksandbookskw.com and set up an account. You’ll want to download the Kobo reader app to access them on your Apple or Android phones, pads or tablets. Once installed, you can access all the books purchased with your Books & Books account, read them save them, etc. (Reading Kobo books on a traditional Kindle or Nook can be tricky. If that’s important to you, drop a note to george@tskw.org. and he’ll help you figure out a solution.)

Audiobooks – Visit Libro.fm to sign up and create an account. Pick Books & Books @ The Studios as your home store. Get the Libro.fm app to listen to the books on your phone, pad or tablet. You can buy individual books or get a monthly subscription for $14.99 which will entitle you to a book of any price each month. Unlike some other audiobook subscription programs, your monthly entitlements from Libro never expire.

Books for Listening

May 6, 2016
by James Gleick

Driving somewhere? Just kicking back? We’ve partnered with Libro.fm to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through our bookstore. Browse the catalog of over 350,000 audiobooks, including New York Times best sellers, and discover hidden gems curated by our expert booksellers.

Listen to your Libro.fm audiobooks anytime, anywhere. On your iPhone, iPad, Android phone, or computer.

Learn more and get the app.

Not sure where to start? Check out this great playlist of excerpts, samples and author events.

Questions? Send us a note to booksandbooks@tskw.org.