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Originally Posted by SleepyBob
Those prices don't make sense to me:
MP3 CD $15
Download $6.99
Audio CD $3.99
Shouldn't Audio CD be the most expensive, since it requires 5 times as many CDs, and Download cheaper than getting a physical CD? Am I missing something?
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Audio CDs are more expensive. The $3.99 CDs are from the Bargain Bin. Evidently they're not moving, so they slashed the price to get rid of them. |
I don't even know why audiobook CDs are still being published. At least in the numbers that they apparently are.
CDs take up
space. No, one CD doesn't take up much--but how many audiobooks have you bought where even the MP3 version could fit on one CD? Or even two, or three? Then, you start talking about the CDs coming from the producer or retailer in a
case (I don't think that that's the right word). Case takes space (I just made that up.
). That prompts the question of why DVDs, with their exponentially higher capacity, aren't commonly used by publishers for the longer audiobooks, at least. The thought just occurred to me that it might be because DVD players aren't as ubiquitous as CD players.
Then, to listen to an average-length book on any portable device that I'm aware of, you have to change the CDs repeatedly. IMHO, the only time that buying audiobooks on CDs is even remotely practical is when you play them at home on a system with a 5-CD changer.
Furthermore, CDs get
scratched, etc., etc.
However, in some of my less sane moments (more than I'm willing to admit here), I have bought audiobooks on CD. Why? For reasons connected with the posts above--sometimes they are much less expensive than the digital (truly digital--no physical product at all is involved) versions. The demons of my frugal nature win over my common sense. When I give in and buy the CDs, I imagine myself eliminating the CDs by ripping them to the hard drive or somewhere else. But I've never managed to find the time actually to do that.