Free Audiobooks!

Seeking to build the audience (13 and older) for audiobooks, the online community plans to give away two free audio downloads each week:

a popular Young Adult title paired with a Classic title that appears on Summer Reading lists–starting July 1 through September 1, 2010.

The download schedule for Summer:

Available July 1 – July 7

• The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Available July 8 – July 14

• Over the End Line by Alfred C. Martino
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

Available July 15 – July 21

• Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Available July 22 – July 28

• The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Available July 29 – August 4

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Available August 5 – August 11

• Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Available August 12 – August 18

• Coming Soon…

Available August 19 – August 25

• Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Available August 26 – September 1

• Handbook for Boys by Walter Dean Myers
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

SYNC is hosted by Audiobook Community Ning, a new social networking site for the discovery of audiobooks.  Young listeners are welcome to take part in the optional book-related networking opportunities which will include authors, narrators, publishers, librarians, and other listeners.