As you may or may not know, Jeremy Daw has finished recording A THRONE OF BONES. It is going to be an absolutely massive audiobook over 30 hours long. If you want to get in the mood for it, you might like to consider listening to THE LAST WITCHKING & OTHER STORIES, which consists of five novellas and short stories set in the epic fantasy world of Selenoth.

– The Last Witchking
– The Hoblets of Wiccam Fensboro
– Opera Vita Aeterna
– The Wardog’s Coin
– Qalabi Dawn

The audiobook+ is 7 hours, 13 minutes, and includes both The Last Witchking and The Wardog’s Coin ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats. It is available for $14.99 at Arkhaven.

As for the other Selenoth shorts, A Magic Broken is available as a separate audiobook+, while Master of Cats and Birth of an Order will be included with the Summa Elvetica audiobook+ when it is eventually produced. We will be continuing to announce the availability of new audiobooks daily as we continue the migration from Audible exclusivity to the Arkhaven store.

What does “audiobook+” mean? It means you get the audiobook in high-quality DRM-free MP4 format, plus the ebook in DRM-free EPUB format, plus the ebook in Kindle format. Not all of our audiobooks are audiobook+ due to the limitations imposed by Kindle Select, but over time, almost all of them will be audiobook+.

And no, we can’t do anything similar with the print editions. While we may eventually be able to permit you to buy them from the Arkhaven store, they are in an entirely different production system and it’s not possible to reasonably wrap them all together into a single product. We’re doing what we can.

In answer to a question, the reason some Castalia House audiobooks are not sold as audiobooks+ is because Castalia does not have the right to sell the ebook directly. In some cases, such as Jordanetics, that is because the ebook is still in Amazon’s Kindle Select system. In others, such as The Irrational Atheist, it is because Ben Bella publishes the print and ebook editions.

The 4th Generation Warfare Handbook audiobook+ is now available for $11.99 from Arkhaven.

Written by the author of the Maneuver Warfare Handbook and an active-duty USMC officer with experience in Iraq, 4th Generation Warfare Handbook is the doctrine for a new generation of war. Over the last 40 years, the world has gradually entered into a post-Clausewitzian state where the wars are undeclared, the battlefields can be anywhere, the uniforms are optional, and the combatants as well as the targets are often “civilian”. Conventional militaries have repeatedly attempted to utilize technology to meet the new challenges posed, but even the most advanced technology has provided little more than meaningless short-term victories rendered futile in months, if not weeks.

This inability of Western governments and militaries to come to terms with the changing nature of modern warfare has led to failed interventions, failed occupations, and now even failed states everywhere from Eastern Europe to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. And with the recent mass movement of peoples around the world, 4th Generation Warfare can be safely expected to appear in Western Europe and the United States before long.

Drawing on their decades of experience with military history and military action, the authors have distilled 4GW theory into a short, concise, easily accessible handbook that provides the soldier, the military analyst, and the civilian observer with a guide to understanding and responding to the changing realities of this challenging new form of war.