Buying books on CD (that ship to Canada for not too much)?

I used to be able to buy books on CD from Amazon, but suddenly they went from $35 to $350 and it's now very hard to find these as everything points to their download audiobook subscription.

Where else can I buy books on CD?  New is best.  


I know ways around it, but I want to support people who produce audiobooks and CDs are a nice way to listen.  

I can't suggest a source. From my perspective, a reasonable and ethical approach might be to buy the online version, record it, and burn to CD. I tend to think that once I've paid for access, the means by which I use it on a strictly personal basis are 100% my own business. My 2c.

I don't have a cd burner anymore and when I did know where to buy mp3 (not app locked files), the formatting didn't convert well to cd.

I would rather just buy the books already on cd or mp3cd.

CD's are now the equivalent of clay tablets. Or so the market thinks. So now you're buying an esoteric artifact rather than a mass produced item.

If you're buying anything from amazon.ca, be aware that some sellers jack the price by 10x. There is rarely a deal on this particular site. I only use it for very unusual items I cannot source anywhere else.

Have you poked around at a Canadian retailer like Indigo?

Yeh, um, indigo. Not a fan for strong reasons.  

Amazon can get some awesome deals but it requires using Google lens and camelcamelcamel to price check.  They have issues,  but in canada, I can get most stuff what the local shops pay wholesale.

But they have motivation to move away from dvd and cd.  

So I need to find somewhere else.

It seems you've had better luck with amazon than I have.

I hope someone can suggest a new source for you.

I like hardcopies of everything - books, magazines, music, audiobooks. However, the world is changing, and as demoralized as it makes me feel,  I'm no longer able to get audio books on CD from the library, nor buy them new from pretty much any seller. I'm also being forced to borrow ebooks from the library, which I utterly refuse to do.

This is how I get around digital audiobooks. Also books.

We recently moved, but we used to live 1.5 hrs south of Vancouver, BC. You say Canada Left Coast, so I'm assuming that you're close. Perhaps this will help...

I buy up what I can and have become OK with CDs(and books) being used because I'm finding most things that used to be on CDs can now only be found in used stores. You'll pay a hefty premium for new. You pay a lot for these "vintage" items that are still in their original plastic wrappers.

There is currently a renewed interest in "vinyl," which is what we used to call "records." Along with vinyl, CDs are often sold in these stores as well. Seattle has a lot of these stores, and my guess is Vancouver does, too. Half Price Books, from Everett to Seattle, often has a very good selection of audiobook CDs. There are 2 on the Eastside (Redmond, Bellevue), one in Everett, then Lynnwood, and then another in Seattle.

Planning a weekend trip (or a LONG day trip) down to Seattle might be something interesting to do and be very productive. There are 5 HPBs you could easily check out in one day. HPB hours: 10am to 8 or 9 pm. And if you want to go for it all, there are two more south of Seattle, one in Olympia and the other in Tukwilla. And how about Powells in Portland?

I hate to say it, but hardcopy CDs are done, and if you want them, you're going to have to get them a new way.

However, for new releases, I've passed on quite a few, and I know I'm either going to have to accept that I won't be reading or listening to the new stuff, or I'm going to have to find a digital solution I can live with. Massive, huge, hefty seriously frustrated sigh...

Btw, I know what you're talking about with poor audio quality when you burn onto a CD. I've given up after several attempts. The last 3 books I burned onto CD the first consonant of each sentence after even a slight pause from the  narrator was omitted. It is super distracting and makes it impossible for me to get into the book.

Wishing you a satisfactory and fruitful solution!