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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I wouldn't cry too much about no longer being able to get the Whispersync Audible deal with a borrowed e-book from Overdrive. After all, the whole intention was to give a break to people who had bought the Kindle book from Amazon.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
Yes, but sometimes when the library had both the e-book and the audiobook, I would borrow the e-book and buy the audiobook at the reduced price. Now I'm more inclined to just borrow the audiobook unless it's something I really want to own, which means a lost sale for Audible.
And if the library has only the e-book, I'm likely to pass on buying the accompanying audiobook without a price reduction--I'll either read the e-book or borrow a different audiobook. Again, lost sale.
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I tend to agree with WT Sharpe. To me, for Amazon to offer the Whispersync narration on a book that you haven't even bought from them was largesse on their part. To go maybe a step further than WT Sharpe may have implied, I even would say that if the program
is (from the sound of things, no one knows yet if it is true) permanently discontinued, we should be thankful that we had it for so long, and not be too down on Amazon because they won't let us do it anymore.