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04-05-2018, 08:14 PM | #1 |
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Help me understand Audible
$15/mo
1 book/mo Is that the gist?
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04-05-2018, 08:37 PM | #2 |
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Re: Help me understand Audible
Well, a lot of audiobooks are more than $15, so there's that. (The Harry Potter books are one credit apiece, and some of them cost 50-60 dollars; the LotR books are 30-35 apiece.) Also, I think you get discounts on other audible books in addition to your one credit per month (eta: 30% off). And you own the audiobooks you get with your credits, even if you cancel your subscription.
Also, I don't quite understand it, but they say you can trade an audiobook in for another one whenever you want. Eta: well, not quite whenever, but within a year of purchase, if it didn't work out for some reason. At Christmas they ran a sale - three months of audible for 7.99/mo. Also you get a free month trial (if you are a prime member, you can get two free credits instead of just one, or at least we were able to do that at Christmas). The downside, to me, is that they use a proprietary format, and you have to use their app - they aren't mp3s you can use anywhere. You can burn them to CD, but only once. Eta: we just did the free trial, and canceled. Partly because of the proprietary issue - I hate the idea of it, but I never tried it in practice to see how it worked - and because my audiobook kid just wants to listen to the same 8 books over and over, and the free trial was enough to complete her collection .
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04-05-2018, 08:50 PM | #3 |
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Re: Help me understand Audible
I try to buy books that are way more expensive than the credit.
If you own a free Kindle book, you can get the audible version for super cheap. I like books that are 12+ hours to listen to.
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04-05-2018, 11:36 PM | #4 |
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Re: Help me understand Audible
You can also downgrade the membership to paying every other month, if you don't think you have enough interests over $15.
You can buy as many books as you want at the member price (often under $10), or a sale price. Sometimes they run sales like 2 for 1, or $4.95, though only on certain books. And as someone said, if you like to read Kindle plus audio, such as having a child follow along with eyes while hearing the narrator read aloud, there's a discounted price on matching books.
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04-06-2018, 01:56 AM | #5 |
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Re: Help me understand Audible
Quite a lot of children's books are 1/2 credit. I was able to get three different sets of books that way. One year I spent time alternatively collecting Harry Potter read by Stephen Fry and the other collections so the kids had something to listen to.
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04-06-2018, 06:21 AM | #6 |
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Re: Help me understand Audible
I am gobsmacked that an audiobook can cost $30 or $50.
We have been avid audiobook listeners for years through Overdrive. I have a large library card collection so perhaps I'm just spoiled, although an even greater availability would be nice at times.
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04-06-2018, 06:31 AM | #7 |
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Re: Help me understand Audible
We LOVE audible, and have "read" so many more books now that we can listen to them in the car or while folding laundry or whatever. We often find books that on sale in audible format and buy them in addition to the subscription. Like others have said, we try to save our credits for books that cost more than $15 normally.
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04-06-2018, 08:34 AM | #8 |
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Re: Help me understand Audible
Producing a recording costs a lot more than producing printed words. If you think about how much a music album costs (even if you have to think back to the days before streaming), and then consider that an audiobook is often ten times that length and sometimes has music as well as voices, plus the market being smaller...not as many people buy audiobooks...they cost a lot just to break even.
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04-06-2018, 12:55 PM | #9 | |
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Re: Help me understand Audible
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We use the library for audio books that we don't want to purchase, too. |
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04-06-2018, 05:04 PM | #10 |
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Re: Help me understand Audible
For us it's worth it. I only use for books I can't get through the library, and I'm always checking for deals. I've gotten tons of children's classics for 3.99 and under, several were 0.99 (Julie of the Wolves, Howl's Moving Castle, Wizard of Oz-read by Anne Hathaway, Disney Frozen that my little girls use to go to sleep, +lots more). If find most of the deals through the promo emails they send out and keep a check on their homepage. I get 2 credits a month for 22, so it evens out to $11 per book. I put it on hold when there is nothing I want and any time when money is tight.
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