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Originally Posted by sufue
I was looking for a reasonably priced history of Mexico for my carpool to listen to.
The one I found actually turns out to be a Whispersync deal, not just an Audible purchase, so I'm putting it here.
Fire & Blood: A History of Mexico by T. R. Fehrenbach has 4.3 stars from 61 reviews, so it can't be too bad.
And, the Whispersync deal is $1.99 for the book (which bounces around a bit, according to eReaderIQ) and then $7.47 for the Audible version. This is not super super cheap at $9.46 for both, but when I went straight to Audible for this book, it was $31.49 (!!!) if you're not a member, which I'm not right now.
Anyway, here's the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Blood-T-...dp/B00J3EU7EI/ |
Book's gone up to $5.99 now.
That's a perennial problem--I mean the lack of information that we usually have on the date (and time of the day) that the price will revert to its old one. It's frustrating to go to the trouble, as you obviously have done, to make a post, only to have the deal disappear shortly thereafter.
As far as the price of WS deals is concerned--and sometimes I feel like the Lone Ranger in my thinking about this--I think that peeps need to consider "bang for the buck." The book has just over 700 pages. Divide the 700 pages by 2--that would be equal to two 350-page books, for quite a bit less than $5 each. Not bad. And remember that there would be commensurately long
audios, free you might say, to go along with the ebooks. And the original book is
very highly rated. So, you would have two good-length, highly-rated ebooks, along with the companion audios, for
less than $5 each. So don't feel that a WS deal like you posted as somehow inferior. In my way of thinking, it was a pretty good deal. If it was about a subject that I was interested in,
I'd take that deal anyday 