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Spotify Premium Will Include Instant Access to 150,000+ Audiobooks — Spotify (newsroom.spotify.com)

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First to the UK & Australia, but will later expand to the US.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeh a book doesn't last me for very long at all and audio books as they are right now are vastly over priced in my opinion so even discounted I would be spending hundreds a month if I bought everything I listen to.

I definitely appreciate that the files they give to you are DRM free, that is the way it should be, but really I wanted something more like Netflix. Something where I can save money on the cost of buying the large amount of books I get through and instead pay a subscription for it and just streaming the content itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Considering that most audiobooks (after the discount) fall in at around $0.75/hr, you'd have to be listening to 4ish hours a day to break a hundred bucks a month (unless you listen at a higher playback speed; I don't). 2-3 hours a day is probably my personal average.

I'm not one to bash pirating - I do it for audiobooks with exclusivity deals from time to time. But I hope that if you are pirating all your audiobooks that you donate to the author directly to make up for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I average 7 - 8 hours a day usually at normal playback speed. Keep that hope alive man xD