Amazon Audible?? why do you have to pay membership?

Im on a trial of this atm, I thought you just paid subscription each month and got so many titles free?

What sticks in my craw is that digital versions are their own entities. Why you cant get a free kindle version when purchasing a physical title is just disgusting imv.
Digital copies cos nothing.

yer I don't understand why you have to subscribe to audible and then pay for audio books.

You pay £7 a month for membership and can cancel anytime, for that you get one credit to use on any book you like, some books can cost up to £50 so that's a bargain, you keep the book it's yours for life, in the free trial you keep the books as well even if you cancel, I think it's a good service and you get some value, I suppose it depends if you like listening to audio books or reading a hard copy but if you read a lot it's definitely value. There are other membership options available. I'd say get the free trial get your free books then cancel and if you like it carry on.

If you are a member you don't pay for books, you get 1 credit a month that you can buy any book at any value, if you want extra books in that month you pay full price, there are different membership options to allow you to get more books but you only pay £7 a month, I hope that helps

Digital copies take a lot of time and effort to produce.

Forgot to add if you get half way through a book and you do not like it they will allow you to swap for another title.

I wouldn't say digital copies take much effort to produce, they don't scan them they take the word processed version and convert it.
Either way they have a replication value of, or as near as damn it, zero.
If you are purchasing a full priced physical book you should have the option to have a download too for free.
Its the state of business that rights holders will try anything to part us with cash. (with quite possibly the digital rights being held by somebody different to the physical version.)

On Audible, I got it on trial to listen to 'Heros' read by Stephen Fry, there are many books Id perhaps listen too, but audible books for me don't fit, theres something unnatural about them and the tactility is absent. Books furnish rooms, and as Erasmus said, they should be abused , their page corners folded and notes written in the margin.

Nov 14, 2018 -- 8:44AM, dustybin wrote:

I wouldn't say digital copies take much effort to produce, they don't scan them they take the word processed version and convert it.Either way they have a replication value of, or as near as damn it, zero.If you are purchasing a full priced physical book you should have the option to have a download too for free.Its the state of business that rights holders will try anything to part us with cash. (with quite possibly the digital rights being held by somebody different to the physical version.)On Audible, I got it on trial to listen to 'Heros' read by Stephen Fry, there are many books Id perhaps listen too, but audible books for me don't fit, theres something unnatural about them and the tactility is absent. Books furnish rooms, and as Erasmus said, they should be abused , their page corners folded and notes written in the margin.

So get your 3 free books then cancel, it's certainly not for everyone especially the oldies. I am lucky enough to be able to listen during my work period so they fit well with me. Im not sure I agree with being entitled to a download just because you've bought a hard copy, when I buy my crunchy nut I don't  expect the milk thrown in. I guess theres a lot of different aspects to producing one ready for market, if you have a famous person narrating it etc takes time to produce I guess it can end up costing a bit. I've cancelled mine for now as I have a few books still to get through, will go back though.

Crunchy nut and milk?

I think a more apt analogy would be to buy something and get its shadow with it, since they are word for word exact products, written by the same person, and one is nothing but a digital copy of the thing.
It would be slightly different if you purchased the digital copy and expected the physical one, except in many cases digital versions are the same price as the physical ones, which makes a mockery of the whole thing.

Ill have to disagree with you on that Dusty, that doesn't sit well with me. We are looking at it from two different view points but I understand where you are coming from. Btw if you like your hard copies you can get some crackers from the local charity shops and at a fair price, all the best.

Never been big on charity shops tbh, and libraries only through duress.
Too many bacteria filled bags of snot and piss coughing and spluttering over everything and touching their holes etc.

I prefer stuff new.
Thats one of the virtues of the digital format I guess