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Originally Posted by issybird
I can’t see going from Audible to Spotify. The prices are higher, the selection poorer and it’s yet another app. There might be a tiny market of people who prefer ad hoc purchases rather than a subscription, but I still don’t see how they can expect to charge much over $14.95 for the convenience factor, when you can always join Audible, grab the book you want and quit. (I don’t know if they cut off people who make a habit of that.) Or just pay the Audible price.
So their market has to be existing Spotify customers whom they hope to lure into audiobooks, but I still can’t see someone who’s paying $9.99/month for as much music as they want paying these eye-popping prices for a single book. And speaking personally, I think there’s even less of a case to be made for audiobook ownership than music anyway. It’s the very rare audiobook I can imagine listening to more than once.
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Also, most of the titles I saw in my cursory look at Spotify seemed to be major titles from major publishers--readily available at any library with a decent OverDrive collection. Audible is attractive because it offers a huge range of books that aren't so readily available--like the 15 books I just bought during the sale!