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I checked out about 5 ebooks from a local public library about a week and a half ago. All of them have Whispersync companions.

I put the titles in my Audible wishlist. All of them showed the sale price, with the price for the regular audiobook price lined through (because the 25% or 30% (whatever the amount was) off sale was going on then). I didn't think too much about the fact that the Whispersync price wasn't showing up, because of the sale, thinking that maybe there was some kind of glitch and everything would be all right after the sale was over.

Well, the prices on all 5 or so ebooks remained the same, higher-than-Whispersync price after the sale was over. I called Audible and asked the woman that I talked to about it. She said that I had to buy the ebooks in order to get the Whispersync prices and either said or implied that borrowing them from a normal library (vs a Kindle library) wouldn't get me the discounted price. She didn't say that it used to be that way, and had changed. She just said that that was the way that it was. But, frankly, the woman seemed not to have too much going for her "upstairs," if you know what I mean.

I know what the policy at least used to be. I borrowed a few ebooks, oh, say a couple of months ago, and not only did the Whispersync prices show up on those titles for me at Audible, but I also bought them for those prices.

Several days have elapsed since talking to Audible representative. The loan on several of the books has expired. I just now checked the wishlist and the prices still haven't changed--they're still the higher, non-Whispersync prices.

In case you're wondering, yes, I did select "Kindle" as the format that I wanted the ebooks in, when I borrowed them.

Has anyone borrowed an ebook from a regular library recently? If so, and it has a Whispersync companion, was the price for the audiobook the Whispersync price, or was it the regular full price?

I hope that there hasn't been a change in policy by Audible/Amazon. I'm thinking that there probably hasn't been, but that there is some kind of glitch--maybe because of the sale going on when I borrowed the ebooks--that is keeping the prices from dropping. If I can't find out any other way, I'm planning to borrow another ebook from the library and see if the Whispersync price shows up at Audible now.