FREE/BARGAIN — Audiobooks

[TrevorViking]

I’m always tempted by the annual plans, especially with the free devices, but Audible is going to have to prove to me that the regular freebies are going to stop. I’ve got about 35 credits for roughly $35 in the past 4 years. Can’t beat that. Now if we go 6-12 months with none of those offers, I’ll likely bite on one of these annual plans.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Yes, LORD EMPEROR. (if you don't know why I'm saying that, please reference post #2994).
Please forgive thy humble servant for his rash and fallacious blathering.

I just wanted to quote that part again.

I like it.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 03 May

• £2.99 -- Blood Sisters -- Jane Corry --> suspense

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by ApK

As for who would spend all twelve credits at once? I guess anyone who wanted 12 books. I know TM is big into series, so I could see someone like him doing it. My wife happens to be waiting for upcoming releases, otherwise she would probably do it as well. As mentioned a above, the membership would then still give you the benefit of being able to buy discounted credits as needed, and would give you the same value as the credit-less Listener Light membership: lower prices and sale offers.

Yep, if I had 12 credits, they'd be gone in a matter of minutes.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

I’m always tempted by the annual plans, especially with the free devices, but Audible is going to have to prove to me that the regular freebies are going to stop. I’ve got about 35 credits for roughly $35 in the past 4 years. Can’t beat that. Now if we go 6-12 months with none of those offers, I’ll likely bite on one of these annual plans.

It seems like those offers have dried up, though. I originally signed up for a yearly plan last Prime day, and I think the only offer since then was the recent one for rejoining.

[TrevorViking]

Originally Posted by Catlady

It seems like those offers have dried up, though. I originally signed up for a yearly plan last Prime day, and I think the only offer since then was the recent one for rejoining.

Pretty sure there have been at least four months of free credits in the past year. I’d check my membership history, but Audible has apparently removed that option from the account details page.

[CRussel]

I'm on a 24 a year plan in the UK, and it's ridiculously cheap there -- £109 ($149 USD) if I remember correctly. The plan is definitely available in the US, but there it's overpriced at ~$225 USD. I have a monthly plan in the US, and am actually thinking of abandoning it.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by ApK

Oh sure it's advantageouss to them, that's why they do it. I just meant it's a rather expected and common practice that gives you clear value in exchange for doing it, not what I'd call a 'gotcha' which I interpret as an unexpected catch that reduces the expected value to you.

And certainly some folks, like the TV and phone industry, do it differently, with contracts and ETF penalties in exchange for doling out their services monthly at a lower price.

As for who would spend all twelve credits at once? I guess anyone who wanted 12 books. I know TM is big into series, so I could see someone like him doing it. My wife happens to be waiting for upcoming releases, otherwise she would probably do it as well. As mentioned a above, the membership would then still give you the benefit of being able to buy discounted credits as needed, and would give you the same value as the credit-less Listener Light membership: lower prices and sale offers.

Your points are well taken.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Yes, LORD EMPEROR. (if you don't know why I'm saying that, please reference post #2994).
Please forgive thy humble servant for his rash and fallacious blathering.

I just wanted to quote that part again.

I like it.

Would you mind if I just shortened it to "LORD"?

[ApK]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Would you mind if I just shortened it to "LORD"?

I actually get that a lot. People see me coming and say "Lord, lord, lord."

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by ApK

I actually get that a lot. People see me coming and say "Lord, lord, lord."

A little too acerbic--deleted.

[issybird]

Thread drift is threatening to get out of hand in more than one thread in this forum. Drift that's organic to the topic at hand is fine, as is repartee that's inclusive. But once drift devolves into private jokes or has exhausted the humor in a particular eddy, it's time to get back on topic.

Some exchanges would be better taken to PM or else the Lounge instead of wasting the time of other members who come here because of new posts only to find that personal exchanges from which they're excluded are taking place, and again and again.

I know everyone means well and is just having fun, but try to be aware if you're posting in the right place for a particular exchange.

[tubemonkey]

Daily Deals -- exp 03 May

• Audible -----> $2.95 -- Silence (book 1) -- Shusaku Endo --> historical
  
• Downpour --> $3.95 -- Orbs IV: Exodus (book 4) -- Nicholas S Smith, et al --> sci-fi
  
• eStories ----> $10.00 -- I Know My Name -- CJ Cooke --> detective

[tubemonkey]

Sync Audio -- Weekly Offers -- FAQs & Help -- exp 10 May @ 7 AM ET

Week 2 -- Welcome to Week 2 of our 2018 SYNC season! This week’s pair of audiobooks includes a nonfiction and author-narrated book that will take you places you might find beyond imagination, and a novel, also performed by the author, about which we’re sure you’ve heard friends enthusing.

FREE -- The Devil's Highway -- Luis A Urrea/ LA Urrea --> 8.9 hrs --> NF soc sci

The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out.

"Superb . . . Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion . . . The book comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able to achieve.--Los Angeles Times Book Review

FREE -- Solo -- Kwame Alexander, et al/ K Alexander --> 4.0 hrs --> literary

New York Times bestseller! Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he’d give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure, and tragedy, including the loss of his mother. The one true light is his girlfriend, Chapel, but her parents have forbidden their relationship, assuming Blade will become just like his father. In reality, the only thing Blade and Rutherford have in common is the music that lives inside them. And songwriting is all Blade has left after Rutherford, while drunk, crashes his high school graduation speech and effectively rips Chapel away forever. But when a long-held family secret comes to light, the music disappears. In its place is a letter, one that could bring Blade the freedom and love he’s been searching for, or leave him feeling even more adrift.

[tubemonkey]

Audible UK -- Daily Deal -- exp 04 May

• £2.99 -- And the Weak Suffer What They Must? -- Yanis Varoufakis --> NF economics

* And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability