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Re:Audiobooks on Spotify: Here's the full story by Taylor_OD on Thursday October 27, 2022 @10:58PM (#33367077)
Digital Audiobooks are becoming more and more of a racket. Amazon recently removed the ability to buy an audio book for a $ amount. You can only buy a credit and exchange that for a book. This means that you might be buying a new $30 book for 1 credit or a $3.25 book for 1 credit.

It's incredibly frustrating and only exists to trick readers into overspending on books.

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Re:Audiobooks on Spotify: Here's the full story by pezdeath on Thursday October 27, 2022 @11:08PM (#33367160)
I just checked in the android audible app, I actually now have the ability to buy with dollars via the app itself.

Usually they'd redirect you to audible.com to avoid any google fees but apparently they stopped that?

I do not have the premium audible subscription though, only plus. Maybe that's why?

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Re:Audiobooks on Spotify: Here's the full story by crackedbassoon on Friday October 28, 2022 @01:10AM (#33367909)
I don’t understand this comment, do you mean Audible? I buy audiobooks with cash there all the time. I just checked and you can still do that.
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Re:Audiobooks on Spotify: Here's the full story by Liquid_Fire on Friday October 28, 2022 @05:16AM (#33369267)
This is only the case on the mobile apps, to avoid paying fees to Google/Apple.

If you go to the website, you can still buy the books for regular money in addition to credits.

(In addition, the majority of books cost more than 1 credit anyway, so in most cases you are much better off buying via a credit)

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Re:Audiobooks on Spotify: Here's the full story by Taylor_OD on Monday October 31, 2022 @10:46AM (#33406483)
I dont actually think you are better off buying a credit in most cases. In many cases, yes. In many cases, no. If you buy older books its very often cheaper to buy the book directly.

It does look like you can buy books on audible.com still. They removed the ability from the mobile app and amazon.com. I wont be surprised if they remove it from audible.com as well.

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