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Originally Posted by booklover6
I wonder how ebooks have put them in the hole, while audio books have not. They are more expensive. I can and often do listen to a complete audio book in two days. So that would be like 12 a month. Plus what my son listens to. That's a lot of audio books.
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I suppose there are more people reading than listening to audiobooks, not everyone that likes to read likes to listen, the first time I listened to an audiobook a few years ago, I didn’t like it, although the idea had it’s appeal, I could “read” when I couldn’t actually read, like when walking in the street, at home doesn’t count because we all know that it is possible to read and move around the house
I tried it again with scribd and found that I enjoyed listening to the books, but I found that although there are some authors and books that I enjoy in ebooks I don’t enjoy in audio, a lot off it has to do with the performer, some of them don’t appeal.
With scribd I listened 13 audios since the end of 2014, I started 6 or 7 that I never finished because they didn’t engage me enough, whereas I read 570 ebooks in 15 months, so I can easily see why they are losing money with me, especially considering that from those I only payed membership for 6 months, the others were free because of promotional stuff.