How to Add Audio Books to iTunes

If you enjoy listening to audio books, you can add them to iTunes. That way, besides being able to listen to your audio books over your computer with iTunes, you can transfer the files to your iPod or iPhone and take them on the road.

Audible is a leading provider of downloadable, spoken audio files. Audible lets you authorize computers to play the audio files — just like the iTunes Store. Audible does require that you purchase the files, and content from Audible is also licensed by Apple to be included in the iTunes Store. Audible content includes magazines and radio programs as well as books.

To import Audible files:

Go to www.audible.com.

Set up an account if you don’t already have one.
Select and download an Audible audio file.

Files that end with .aa are Audible files.
Drag the Audible file to the iTunes window.

If this is the first time that you’ve added an Audible file, iTunes asks for your account information. You enter this information once for each computer that you use with your Audible account.

To disable an Audible account, open iTunes on the computer that you no longer want to use with the account, and choose Advanced→Deauthorize Audible Account. In the Deauthorize Audible Account dialog box that appears, enter the username and password for the account, and then click OK.

You need to be online to authorize a computer or to remove the authorization from that computer.