Well, I have never purchased an audiobook through iTunes. I have been an
audible member for many many years, long before I ever thought of a Mac or
before iPhones existed. For me, the number one reason not to buy through iTunes
is the cost. The books are outrageously expensive. If you join Audible, at the
platinum rate, which gives you 24 credits a year, you can get 24 books a year
at a cost of slightly less than $10 per book. You have to pay for the credits
all at once, which might not be something everybody can do. But if you can,
it's for sure worth it if you are a reasonably heavy user of audiobooks. They
also have a gold level, which gives you 12 credits per year, but the credits
cost more, making your book purchase cost you something like 13 or $14 per
book. In addition, if you run out of credits before your subscription renews,
you can get 15% off on other book purchases. And you can choose A daily summary
from either the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times at no extra cost.
Also, audible runs periodic sales where you can get three books for two credits
or sometimes two books for one credit from a list that they provide on their
website.
I realize that none of these things were what you directly ask about, but I
think they're very important, since books from the iTunes Store are expensive.
As for the quality, since I have not used a book purchased from iTunes, I
obviously can't comment. But between the so-called CD-quality, which is the
highest one to give you that warning and the next one down, if you're just
listening to your books on the average phone speaker or whatever, it doesn't
matter. We are talking about voice recording here after all, not high fidelity
music. I'm not saying there's no difference at all. I'm just saying for me at
least, it's not worth it. If you have tons of space and want to use up twice as
much space with audio, go for it.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 3, 2017, at 8:31 AM, Daniel McGee <danielmcgee134@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all, first off, I would like to say that I have been buying my audiobooks
through iTunes/iBooks store for quite a few years now and it has amounted to
quite a collection. Recently though, I have started using Amazon which owns
Audible.
The reason to why I am thinking about switching has to do with the audio
quality .
I'm not completely sure, but isn't the sound quality of iTunes audiobooks
considerably lower than Audible's quality in the Audible app for IOS?
For those who have the Audible app do you notice any difference in sound
when you choose the high option compared to standard? Besides the alert
that says when selecting it, warning: This setting will result in larger file
sizes and longer download times. Which is pretty obvious anyway. Just wanted
to know if the higher option really makes a difference or not to the
listening experience .
If not, I'll continue to use iTunes and if anyone could say why they prefer
Audible compared to iTunes I would appreciate that as well.
I thanks
Daniel
