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Scribd's "Netflix for books" service has added Unlimited Audiobooks to its $8.99 per month plan.

Subscription ebook service Scribd is broadening its horizons to audiobooks.

The company has added 30,000 audiobooks to its library, making it the largest unlimited ebook and audiobook subscription service around. The audiobook library includes new releases and bestsellers like The Dropby Dennis Lehane,How to Build a Girlby Caitlin Moran,Bad Feministby Roxane Gay,The Hard Thing About Hard Thingsby Ben Horowitz,The Hunger Games Trilogy, andDivergent.

The best part is that you won't have to pay extra to listen to the audiobooks. They're now included as part of Scribd's existing $8.99 per month subscription.

"We've always envisioned Scribd as a home for the best writing and storytelling in the world," Scribd co-founder and CEO Trip Adler said in a statement. "This has been one of our most popular requests and we're excited to reach book lovers wherever they are and however they choose to read or listen."

The library also includes children's classics read by actors (Chrysanthemum read by Meryl Streep, Owen read by Sarah Jessica Parker), self-improvement titles (The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, Daring Greatly by Brene Brown, The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton), and novels that inspired blockbuster films (Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick, Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale).

Listeners can browse special audio collections arranged by length, narrator, and subject including "Shakespearean Actors Reading Shakespeare," "Roadtrip Listening: SF to LA," and "What to Listen to on the Way to a Job Interview."

The audiobooks will first be available to subscribers on Android, Kindle Fire, Nook tablets, and the Web. They'll reach iOS users in the coming days.

"Thecommuters around the office are beside themselves," Scribd wrote in a blog post. "Actually, we're all beside ourselves.And we hope you are, too."

For more, check out the slideshow above for some tech-related books you should add to your reading list. And see PCMag's review of the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9" and Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 7" .

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Subscription-based e-book lending service Scribd is now offering audiobooks, the company announced Thursday. Scribd is one of three top contenders -- alongside Oyster and Amazon's Kindle Unlimited -- in the race to become the leading Netflix-for-books provider.

Scribd has added 30,000 audiobooks to its 500,000 e-books, accessible with an $8.99 monthly charge.

The audiobooks are across the genre spectrum. There are literary options such as "The Savage Detectives" by Roberto Bolao, "No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy and "Hardboiled Wonderland" by Haruki Murakami alongside the bestselling YA trilogy "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins.

There are full cast recordings of Shakespeare and classic radio dramas as well as self-help books like "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. And children's books read by celebrities include "Who's in Rabbit's House" read by James Earl Jones, "Chrysanthemum" read by Meryl Streep, "Owen" read by Sarah Jessica Parker and "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" read by Paul Giamatti.

Popular audiobook narrators Jim Dale, Simon Vance and Katherine Kellgren are also in the mix.

The audiobooks will be available on all platforms; many are running now, but iOS users aren't expected to be up and running until next week.

Amazon, which owns leading audiobook company Audible, has not opened those floodgates to its Kindle Unlimited users. Instead, it has only about 2,000 audiobooks on offer via its version of Netflix-for-books.

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- Henry Holt and Company has inked a deal to buy Time magazine editor-at-large Catherine Mayers new biography of longtime heir-apparent Charles, Prince of Wales. Mayer spent a year doing research forBorn to Be King: Prince Charles on Planet Windsor, spending time with friends of Charles, palace insiders and the royal himself. The book will be slightly pared down fromthe U.K./international edition from WH Allen.Born to Be Kingreveals Prince Charles in all his complexity, according to Holt, giving fresh and fascinating insights into the first marriage that did so much to define himwith Princess Diana,who died in a car accident in 1997, as well as his current wife, Duchess Camilla. The biography is set to be published in February 2015. [Publishers Weekly]

- Helen Macdonald has won BritainsSamuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction with her autobiographicalH Is for Hawk,a book unlike any other, in the words of the judges.Hawk, the first memoir to ever win the 20,000 prize,is about how the poet and historians passion for the bird of prey helped her grieve herfathers death.The book at heart is a love letter also to nature and the world around us, said Macdonald.I ended up feeling like I was more like a hawk than a person. It really made me think very deeply about life and death. This was also anotableyear for the prizebecauseit marked the first time that the shortlist includedmore women than menthree out of five. [BBC News]

- Ebook library and streaming subscription service Scribd announced via press release today that it will enhanceits catalog of over half a million titleswith a whopping 30,000 new audiobooks.Theaudio additionswill include popular releases old and new fromScholastic, HarperCollins, and Blackstone and Naxos by authors like Cormac McCarthy, Eckhart Tolle, Haruki Murakami and Suzanne Collins. This has been one of our most popular requests and were excited to reach book lovers wherever they are and however they choose to read or listen,said co-founder and CEO Trip Adler. [GalleyCat]

-New York TimesjournalistStephanie Clifford inked a seven figure deal with St. Martins Press for her debut novelEverybody Rise. Though the book isnt due to hit shelves until 2016, it is already being adapted to the screen by Fox 2000 and producer Karen Rosenfelt (The Devil Wears Prada, Twilight). The novel,set inthe viperous social worldof a young woman in2006 Manhattan, was described bySMP Executive Editor Charles Spicer as Edith Wharton meets The Bonfire of the Vanities for the 21st century. [New York Daily News].

- Bestselling novelistDanielle Steel is continuing her prolific career with a new 10-book deal with Ballantine Bantam Dell, a Penguin Random House imprint. With 650 million of her92 titles in print around the worldevery single one a bestsellerSteel is the top sellingauthor alive. BBD is already set to put out four Steel novels next year. [Publishers Weekly]

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What: "Ghost Sonata"

When: Through Nov. 23

Where: Nimbus Theatre, 1517 Central Ave. N.E., Minneapolis

Tickets: $15-$10, nimbustheatre.com

August Strindberg's 100-year-old play, "Ghost Sonata," has been performed thousands of times -- but it's never been done quite the way Nimbus Theatre is doing it: with a live musical score by Stillwater native Charlie McCarron.

It's the first theater music for McCarron, 28, who has a degree in music composition from St. John's/St. Ben's. Having done a fair amount of composing for film and video projects, he got the "Ghost Sonata" gig when another composer, who couldn't do it, suggested him.

"I composed the bulk of it in a week. Kinda crazy," McCarron says. "I had to get it finished before I went on a weeklong road trip with a couple friends."

Charlie McCarron (Jason Schumacher)

Much of the music McCarron composed plays between scenes but there's also something unusual for a play, although common for a movie: underscoring. McCarron discovered it's a little trickier to do it with live musicians (a piano, a clarinet and a cello) than on recorded film.

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Eckhart Tolle Interview - Full episode
Eckhart discusses Wall Street, politics, sex and staying present and conscious. For more information on Eckhart #39;s books, visit http://www.namastepublishing.c...

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Eckhart Tolle - The Egoic Self

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Four years ago, a woman I lovea friend who felt sisterly and vibrantdied of breast cancer. She was 33. I feel like I must spell it out: thirty-three. I want to paint it on a brick wall in the middle of the night. I want to wear it like the scarlet letter A. I want every billboard to read two numbers: 3 and 3.

Her name was Julia. The daughter of wealthy Finns, she'd spent the last decade in London as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. But living life in a suit and managing money was an empty legacy handed down from the ghost of her father. She wanted to live her own life, to know what that was.

Though Julia later told me she hated me at firstwho's that skinny bitch? she thoughtwe developed a closeness I'd never felt before or since. We met at a weekend workshop, the kind you go to when you're on a journey of self-discovery. At the post-weekend celebration, when we still barely knew each other, I walked up to her and gave her a bead, yellow splashed with red. "This is for your shaman," I said. She looked at it, then at me. The smooth plain of her Scandinavian face, its beauty both simple and striking, crumpled into a child's cry.

Years later, when we sat on a bench in Hyde Park on my birthday, the rose garden blooming around us, the petals scattered on the ground, her face slid into sorrow when she told me I was the first person who had truly seen her.

After the workshop, she joined my women's circle, which met in my flat in Bloomsbury, a five-minute walk from the British Museum. I couldn't help but admire Juliaher hazel eyes lined in black, her body draped in a leather jacket or faded pastels heavy with cotton flowers. Her soft featuresfeather-thin eyebrows, silken hair, a doll's nosereminded me of my Scandinavian past. One evening as we sat cross-legged on her living room floor in Notting Hill, she told me, "We've been meeting like this for centuries. I just know it." We called each other shaman sisters, and talked about our connection to the world we couldn't see.

When Julia jumped out of her linear life as an investment banker, she brought intensity alongside her liberation. She became a regular at 10-day silent retreats. She read voraciously, recommending one book after another on spiritual healing, energy work, archetypes, all of which I have bought, none of which I have read. She didn't live outside reality, but each of the new rules formed definitive, hard lines. She got cross with me when I brought her a glass of water during dinner, telling me, "I don't drink with my meals!" as if I should have known.

It's hard, at any point, to determine what we should have known. I wanted to know how to heal her, just as she wanted to know how to heal herself. According to the oft-doubted Kbler-Ross stages of grief, in the aftermath of everything we couldn't have known, I am stuck in stage two, anger. Anger "becomes a bridge over the open sea, a connection from you to them," Kbler-Ross said.

Across America, or at least across Brooklyn, where I live now, posters of women defeating breast cancer with a smile and a pink shirt adorn the streets, the buses, and the subway cars. The word survivor is always followed by an exclamation markthe first does not exist without the second. These women are walking for a cure, they're making strides against cancer. They raise money, they walk, they run, and a small portion goes to cancer research, and maybe one day a cure will appear and it will be because of them. The problem is, I don't believe it.

I am sure that many never see the posters, but for me they are everywhere, each one inciting fury. In my head, I talk back. Cancer is so fun. Cancer is pretty in pink.Cancer is arms raised, fists pumping. Cancer is woo-hoo. Cancer is commodified: Revlon, Avon, the women's brands, the brands that care, own this disease.

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Eckhart Tolle TV: Settling into Presence
Eckhart offers guidance for settling into presence and resting in the depth of an unfilled moment.

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Science and Consciousness: A Conversation with Lothar Schfer - Eckhart Tolle TV
Eckhart speaks with scientist and author Lothar Schfer on a variety of topics including consciousness, human evolution and the gifts and limitations of science.

By: Eckhart Tolle

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