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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
For a reduced price, but not free. Of the approximately 7,300 WfV audiobooks in KU, only about 2,300 of them are free. The other 5,000 require a purchase.
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Yes, I know, but since many of the qualifying audio is likely done as a direct upload by small publishers or indies, Amazon isn't paying big commissions to a third-party publisher. In effect, there's less of a middle man than when a publisher hires an audio team or separate deal to do audio, etc. Trad published audio is very expensive and Amazon can only reduce those costs so much because they have a high amount to be paid to the publisher. With the direct audio program, I think they may have an easier time making a profit and so can include those books in these programs. Just a guess. I'm not in audio, but I know to do it via Audible, it's a lot cheaper than going the old fashioned route!