For anyone interested in this news, don’t forget to check out your local library. If you’re in the US there’s a good chance that your library card will also give you access to online audiobooks for free!
^ The Libby app works great for audiobooks, too!
If your library has hoopla you can get ebooks, music, tv shows, movies, comics, and magazines too. Unfortunately doesn’t work with ereaders for the ebooks.
Hoopla is the greatest
Sounded great at first, but 15 monthly hours is pretty terrible TBH. Not even an hour a day?
And if you listen at 1.5x speed, does that just burn your 15h faster or can you fit in more time?
It’s an interesting idea, but I think the only way I’d use it is a “try before you buy” and go out to Libro to make the purchase. At least that’s the only way I could realistically see using 15h/month.
That’s half an hour a day. Most people are not going to rip through that. Sure you and I would, but most people that’s probably adequate.
It’s what. A book, maybe book and a half per month? Like cool that it’s an option but it’s not really something makes a difference for me.
15 hours/month is… pretty awful. An avid reader (or listener, in this case) will chew through that in no time at all. Another thing that concerns me is payouts. Spotify is notorious for having atrocious payouts to creators. I wonder how this carries over to their audiobook offerings.
Yep, just looking through my collection of audiobooks, and most are about 10 hours long.
Yeah when I’m driving a lot for work I could burn through that in 2 days…and not even be able to finish out the second day before I have to change to something else 😂
Another reason to make me glad I setup audiobookshelf.
It’s a free trial. I don’t know why everyone’s so shocked, they’re essentially giving you one or two free books in the hope that you’ll be hooked and want to pay for more!
Technically not free if you have to have a paid sub in order to access them. In that case it’s a paid trial with the opportunity to pay even more. Which sounds even worse for Spotify.
Technically yes, but if you’re already paying for the thing you actually wanted then it’s essentially a free trial on top of that
Spotify Premium pays Joe Rogan.
They cap the time you can listen to something on a paid subscription? Lmao, their podcasts already suck and are annoying to navigate, and tend to get mixed between music in the UI. Can I pay money to just have a music service?
Also, ebooks and audio books are digital, so any caps (like data caps) are entirely arbitrary.
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Oh look, a paid subscription post! I shall take a detour from these salty black waters! 🏴☠️
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This is fantastic news! 😁
Europe?
