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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
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!
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The only audiobooks I consider to be part of KU are the free titles (2,300), not the paid titles (5,000). I'm pretty certain that all 7,300 WfV audiobooks already existed and just followed their companion ebooks over to KU and that Amazon only allowed about 32% of those titles to be checked out for free.
What I'm talking about is whether Amazon will add to the free collection. My guess is that if they do, it won't be a substantial addition.