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Originally Posted by sakura-panda
I used to belong to the Mystery Guild and I'd love something similar for ebooks, where I could get my choice of xx books every month for a set fee, with recommendations from my selected genre.
Slightly off topic, but I've been considering joining Audible -- what do you mean by "Special Snowflake formatting"?
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Audible uses a special proprietary format called .aa, rather than my preferred format of .mp3. They claim that their aa format is better because the Audible playing devices support bookmarking, clearer playback, etc, but to my mind it's really just to lock you in to their formatting as a repeat customer. (Not to mention that my Cowon player already has a bookmarking option for my mp3 files.)
A lot of music players (including my Cowon player) support the aa format, and they have a player app for Android devices (and probably iPxxx), but I don't LIKE the aa format. There's not a particularly easy way to convert the format to another - without bringing up The Subject That Cannot Be Rationally Discussed, it's basically a 3-step process to convert from aa to mp3 and those steps involve older-not-easily-available versions of certain software programs plus a hefty time investment on your part.
B&N has started selling most Audible books in a direct-download mp3 format, but there is a price difference - Audible is definitely cheaper...
...as long as your device can play their stupid (imho) proprietary format.