Prior to the Internet, we all had no option but to physically visit the bookstores or order via phone or mail. But now with the advent of the Internet, you can search for the exact audio book you want, check out the cost and order it... without leaving the comfort of your home or office.

It is now safe to say that the audio book market place is now on the Internet. Physical bookstores can't match the incredibly abundant advantages that shopping for audio books on the Internet provides.

The audio book market place on the Internet gives you the opportunity to instantly search for and find the particular audio book you are looking for.

This can't be compared to the era of physically going through several bookstores and manually checking the thousands of books available before you find the audio book of your choice.

For those of you who don't have an online audio book store in mind, you can get started by using the search engines to search for the audio book title of your choice.

Below are some of the most popularity audio book market places on the Internet:

- Amazon: It has become virtually impossible to talk about books, offline or online, without mentioning Amazon.com, whether the book is a hardcover, paperback or even audio book.

Amazon is undeniably the biggest book market place in the world, online or offline. To locate the audio book of your choice, visit Amazon.com and search for the title of the audio book or author's name.

You will mostly likely find the exact audio book of your choice or be provided with alternatives when you conduct a search on the website of Amazon.com

- Toldbooks.com: Toldbooks is undeniably becoming one of the market leaders when it comes to audio books. This downloadable audio book marketplace contains thousands of book titles in many varied categories.

You can visit the website - http://www.toldbooks.com - and easily locate the audio book you desire. Their search features are very easy to use and save users an incredible amount of time.

- Barnes & Noble: This is another very popular and highly visited audio book market place on the Internet. Like Amazon and Toldbooks.com, you can visit the website - http://www.BarnesAndNoble.com - and use the search feature to pinpoint the exact audio book you desire.

There are several other audio book market places on the Internet, but the 3 mentioned above are the most popular and most secure from which you can buy your audio books. Buying your audio book from any of these audio book stores gives you complete rest of mind, as you won't have any fear of being defrauded.

Apart from these audio book stores, there are other audio book stores in specific categories such as business, motivational, fiction, etc.

If you don't find the particular audio book of your choice from these 3 major audio book stores online, then use the search engines. It will be very helpful if you know either the exact name of the author or title. If you don't, it can end up being a case of "jargon in jargon out".

In other words, if you type in the wrong name of an author of an audio book you desire, it will be extremely difficult for you to find the particular audio book.