Audible: Audio Book Service From Amazon

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Audible: Audio Book Service From Amazon

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I'm a fan, but I'm not sure how much I like the pricing structure.

For $15 or so per month, you get one credit, and no discounts on other books. You can use the credit on anything though, and I think it defaults to the highest priced item in your cart, which is good.

I got a bunch of stuff from the Harvard Business Review and some other geek stuff for business for like $33. Something like 25 hours worth of audio.

If you're curious, I think that the best download I've listened to so far has to be the Steve Jobs thing from HBR. Say what you will about the guy, but the guy was incredible from an innovation, marketing and overall business point of view.

Overall, I'd probably give it a "meh plus" on a scale of "nfw-> maybe-> meh-> we're good".

Easy to sync to iTunes and put on your iPhone or iPod, listen to on your computer etc. Good for driving around.
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Actually they have sales pretty frequently. But those are what screw me up. I can only listen to so much and with a couple of sale books in the cue, I tend to get backlogged.

I got Brian Tracy's Business Success Mastery for 14.95 and it was about 20 hours long. The CDs were really expensive IIRC. If you're walking or sitting a lot and need something higher quality to listen to then it's pretty good.
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Re: Audible: Audio Book Service From Amazon

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Yeah, they've had I think 2 sales in the last 7-10 days or so.

I prefer the audio books since I can listen to those during the few hours I'm not actually on my computer. Since I don't really buy print books anymore, it's nice to get some sort of a break, even if I'm not completely free from electronics.
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I canceled that $15 a month subscription 'cux I just wasn't buying that many audio books. I like them on long drives but don't ever listen at home. You can just buy an audio book outright from them. Might cost $15. If you only buy a couple a year, you save $$$.
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