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

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      Having a quick look the fact that it is using a similar system to audible with the “gift you a credit per month” bullshit then that’s a hard no for me.

      I go through multiple books every month, on my heaviest listening weeks I will usually listen to 35 - 40 hours worth so a single “premium” book and then a load of free trash like audible just doesn’t cut it for me.

      Scribd seemed like a better option but they will stop you from listening to certain things after like 15 hours. So I was locked out half way through a book, I could go listen to other books but who the fuck wants to listen to books in halves or quarters then wait until the next month to continue.

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        The credit is for a full book, regardless of book cost.

        So you get one full book and then any other books you buy are discounted.

        But the big reason I go with them is they give you DRM free audio files of the books to download and keep. Most books are both in m4a and mp3 format.

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          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.

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            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.