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Spotify Premium Will Include Instant Access to 150,000+ Audiobooks — Spotify (newsroom.spotify.com)
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First to the UK & Australia, but will later expand to the US.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having a quick look the fact that it is using a similar system to audible with the "gift you a credit per month" bullshit then that's a hard no for me.

I go through multiple books every month, on my heaviest listening weeks I will usually listen to 35 - 40 hours worth so a single "premium" book and then a load of free trash like audible just doesn't cut it for me.

Scribd seemed like a better option but they will stop you from listening to certain things after like 15 hours. So I was locked out half way through a book, I could go listen to other books but who the fuck wants to listen to books in halves or quarters then wait until the next month to continue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The credit is for a full book, regardless of book cost.

So you get one full book and then any other books you buy are discounted.

But the big reason I go with them is they give you DRM free audio files of the books to download and keep. Most books are both in m4a and mp3 format.