podbooks dot org

about $100 per course (free at some public libraries)
The Cadillac of audible non-fiction, the teaching company offers great college courses in audioform. Now that they offer content in mp3 form, they qualify as a podpook publisher.

The courses are designed for adult life long learners. This means that they strive at the parts of a subject that are intellectually interesting but not bogged down in the minutia that professional training would entail. So it may fail some looking for professional training but they are interesting enough.

Spoken Alexandria is a project that is trying to put out content nearly free. Books often cost less than $1.00 and money is used to fund the hosting and creation of content.

Project Gutenberg has a huge repository of texts which I recommend for use with a text to speech program. They have a section of public domain human read books. Public domain usually means that the author has died long enough ago for the work to belong to us all. The recording is made by a volunteer choosing to read the book.  Production values are often low but I am biased in favor of the value of the classics.

PG’s human read books

A lot of stuff not exactly to my taste I prefer those dry old classics like on project gutenberg but probably what most people are looking for when they think of podbooks. Contemporary authors submitting there work for exposure or just the love of writing

Non Fiction and Essays

Children’s **Caution there are also selections inappropriate for children. But they are clearly deliniated**

Everything else