Librivox.org is a website that hosts audio recordings of books in the public domain. These are read by volunteers, so sometimes the quality isn't that great. But they are free and can be reproduced, which is very valuable for students who have trouble reading. This makes it easier to assign longer texts as required reading (like The Red Badge of Courage in a U.S. History class, for example). The catalog is fairly extensive right now and continually growing.
There is also a really cool iPhone app (Audiobooks) that lets download and listen directly on your phone. You need a wifi connection to download the books initially, but after that they are stored on the phone.
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