Amazon’s new ‘Audible Channels’ Prime benefit is great — but it’s not available on Amazon tablets (Update: They’re working on it)
It should've been implemented on Fire and Echo devices from day one. Better late than never.
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[Update, Saturday afternoon: After this story was published, an Amazon spokesperson contacted GeekWire to add to the company’s previous statement: “We are planning to bring this feature to Fire tablets in the coming months,” the company now says.]
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Audible Channels, which initially rolled out in July, is available in the Audible app for iOS, Android and Windows 10, but it’s not available on Amazon’s own Fire tablets, as a GeekWire reader pointed out on our story about the new Prime benefit.
Amazon treats Audible audiobooks as native content on its tablets, letting users download them directly to the device, much as they download e-books to Kindle e-readers and Fire tablets. It makes for a more seamless and integrated experience, but it also means that there’s no standalone Audible app to serve as a delivery mechanism for the Audible Channels service, as there is on non-Amazon devices.
When I asked about the situation, an Amazon representative confirmed this week, “Currently, you can access Audible Channels on iOS, Android, and Windows 10. We don’t have additional details to share at this time.” (See additional statement above.)
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