Transferring audiobooks

'm transferring my itunes library to my new computer. The music transfers, but not the audiobooks. Any suggestions?

I tried using Soundtaxi, Tunebite and some other programs that claim to convert M4B to MP3, but every one I tried had problems; some limit the length to 30 or 60 seconds, others seem to require iTunes to be installed, one wouldn't recognize M4B files even though the advertising said it would. One even tries to feed the M4B into Windows Media Player, which is a bit dumb because WMP has no clue how to handle M4B.
I don't intend to pay for a full version of any software until I can find a demo that will let me convert just one chapter of one audiobook - if and when I find something, I'll gladly pay for the licensed version, but so far nothing has come close and I'm not paying yet more money for something that turns out not to work.
If anyone has suggestions for a program that'll convert the audiobook files, I'd like to hear them. Yes, I know that it's technically illegal to do this; however I'm not doing this to give away free copies - I just want to be able to play the files I paid my money for, and have a right to.

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Hi martincouture100,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
iTunes 11 for Mac: Add iBooks and audiobooks to iPod, iPhone, or iPad
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13696
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