Apple Offers Free Books and Audiobooks to Users in U.S. for Limited Time Only

Apple Books today sent out a push notification highlighting free books and audiobooks available to users for a limited time only. This appears to be U.S. only for now.

Apple Books Free Books and Audio Books Promo
The push notification reads:

Enjoy a good book, on us
Explore free books, read-alongs for kids, cozy mysteries, and audiobooks for the whole family.

Upon tapping on the notification, users are brought to the Free Books page in the Apple Books Store. From there users can browse through several novels from various genres, explore a wide selection of audiobooks, or select a new book from Apple's 'First in a Series, Free' tab.

Apple is likely offering this promotion as people around the world remain in their homes amid the ongoing crisis. It is unclear as to how long this promotion will last, so it is definitely worth spending a few minutes to explore the many books and audiobooks while they're available for free.

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Top Rated Comments

77 months ago
Why only US?
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
zinacef Avatar
77 months ago

This would be amazing and Apple News free would be great too. They can afford it!
Seeing as we’re supposed to be socially distancing and staying at home, I wouldn’t mind if they threw in a free subscription to Apple Arcade!
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
CarlJ Avatar
77 months ago

Well hell the whole suite of Apple services? Apple Music too... a new three month trial of everything for all!
No, see, to be really helpful to everyone stuck at home: free iPad Pros to run all that stuff on, for all!
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77 months ago
No notification for me as of yet.
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77 months ago
This would be amazing and Apple News free would be great too. They can afford it!
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77 months ago
Seeing as we’re supposed to be socially distancing and staying at home, I wouldn’t mind if they threw in a free subscription to Apple Arcade!
Well hell the whole suite of Apple services? Apple Music too... a new three month trial of everything for all! [emoji106]
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