Thanks to the genius of Gates, Jobs, and hundreds of others, we can now shop for audio books online and avoid the hassles of in person shopping. Getting audio books online not only result in times savings but it also provides you with many more choices than brick and mortar stores.
To begin with, a number great sites, like Amazon, Ebay, and Powells, offer audio books online for sale. In addition we can often find audio books online in the public domain. These are books that were written years before the existence of intellectual property/copyright laws. In other words, there are hundreds of audio books online that you don't even have to buy. They are available for simple download.
If you do a general search for audio books online, in addition to the sources mentioned above, you will also find many vendors selling audio books online. You'll find audio books on contemporary text books for science class, instructional books, and even poetry audio books online.
Here are some excellent sources for audio books online:
Wired for Books wiredforbooks.org - Not only features books online, but poetry, oratories, and audio books online…audio versions of literature read by the living writers (reading aloud their own works) and read by writers and literati (reading aloud the works of those long gone but not forgotten).
Professor Martin Spinelli's Literary Audio Links page buffalo.edu - ample possibilities here. Though not all are audio books online, many are snippets, excerpts and full texts of short stories, essays, and more.
Random House's Bold Type buffalo.edu - features excerpts of the hottest literature audio books online. Wonderful possibilities, here.
Jewish Stories from the Old World to the New buffalo.edu - audio books online, audio excerpts, and audio short stories-read by celebrities and star authors.
