Dear Daniel,
I responded to your original message on this thread. I guess you must not have
taken me seriously or read it at all. I told you to immediately switch to
Audible. I told you that because I have been an audible User for over the
past 4 1/2 years. Pick up your phone and call the customer service number two
Join with the $22 price for the two credits per month membership plan. Once
you do this if you have not done it already, download the Audible app to your
iPhone, then Sign into the app with your Amazon ID, or audible membership
username and password. At this point the only rule that you need to keep in
mind, is that if you were going to spend a credit on a book, try to make it at
least above the $14.95 amount By doing this, you will ensure that you are
getting your moneys worth. After that there is nothing you need to worry
about as far as price is concerned. Audible has a great listen moneyback
guarantee so once you listen to the book or when you initially purchase it with
One of your credits for the month, make sure to download the book onto your
hard drive using iTunes then spend your other Credit on a book that cost more
than $14 and download it as well to your hard drive, notice I said hard drive
and not your mobile device. Then simply make sure to put the Audible customer
service number into your contact list. Then sit back and enjoy your books on
whatever device you choose. Then before you go on spending another $22 the next
month around just simply call that number and say that you would like to return
your last two purchases and voilà! After you refresh the page you will have
two brand-new credits to buy two brand-new books with! I absolutely do not
feel any sort of guilty by doing this, as I was a pain $22 a month customer for
three years. About four times a year I pay the monthly membership fee, but out
of the remaining months I call and ask them to put my membership on hold, so
my credit card is not charged. So long as you download the book to your hard
drive you will have it forever, it will disappear from your iPhone if you ever
upgrade or have to reinstall the app. But you can't simply sync it back on
there with itunes. There, I just gave away a huge secret of mine. I apologize
to Mary, as she has been wasting hundreds of dollars a year by paying such an
astronomical price for bugs that are eventually going to be free for us to read
through the library for the blind. I simply choose to be an audible member,
because I like to listen to books when they come out. And by the way anything
and everything that has to do with Sherlock Holmes is all over audible! Now, I
hope we can put this thread to bed Mr. Daniel. It always amazes me how visually
impaired people seem to make things so much harder than they have to be. Good
listening! And by the way, you can also join the blind audible listeners Group
on Yahoo.
Regards,
Rory Smith
On Mar 3, 2017, at 6:41 PM, Mary Otten
<motten53@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:motten53@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I didn't find the expensive Sherlock Holmes you were talking about in the
iBooks store on Audible. Girl on the train in the iBooks store as an audiobook
is $23.95. If you're using an audible credit and you have the platinum plan
that was pre-paid the cost for that book would be one credit which would be
something less than $10 something like nine dollars and 80 or 70 some sense.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 3, 2017, at 3:33 PM, Daniel McGee
<danielmcgee134@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:danielmcgee134@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
So if we were to put a few titles into context how would the credits work out
for them?
1. Girl on the train by Paula Hawkins iTunes £11.95 audible Buy For £21.99
2.
Lord of the rings fellowship of the ring
<https://mobile.audible.co.uk/pd/Special-Stores/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring-Audiobook/B004FTVZFG/?ref=msw_search_c1_0_1_RE>
<https://mobile.audible.co.uk/pd/Special-Stores/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring-Audiobook/B004FTVZFG/?ref=msw_search_c1_0_1_RE>
*
By<https://mobile.audible.co.uk/pd/Special-Stores/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring-Audiobook/B004FTVZFG/?ref=msw_search_c1_0_1_RE><https://mobile.audible.co.uk/pd/Special-Stores/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring-Audiobook/B004FTVZFG/?ref=msw_search_c1_0_1_RE>
* J. R. R. Tolkien iTunes £8.95 Audible £16.99
*
* 3. Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver iTunes £9.95 Audible £16.99
*
* 4. Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle,
Narrated by Stephen Fry iTunes £31.95 Audible Buy For £79.99
*
* So putting these titles into perspective, iTunes seems to be the
cheaper of the two. Especially when you compare the price of number 4 in the
list.
*
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On 3 Mar 2017, at 20:54, Mary Otten
<motten53@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:motten53@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
If you can pay for the platinum membership all at once, it's cheaper than $24 a
month. I would think the same is true for the gold membership.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 3, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Greg Wocher
<gwocher@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gwocher@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hello,
I pay $14.95 a month for the Gold membership. This membership gives you 1
credit a month. I believe the platinum plan is right around $24 a month and
this gives you 2 credits a month.
Regards,
Greg Wocher
On Mar 3, 2017, at 3:32 PM, Mary Otten
<motten53@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:motten53@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I believe you can join Audible without actually buying credits. But then you're
paying the price that everybody pays, with the possible exception of 15%
discount? I'm not really sure. I have been a purchaser of credits forever.
Mary
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 3, 2017, at 10:42 AM, Daniel McGee
<danielmcgee134@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:danielmcgee134@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Thank you all for your wonderful feedback. Particularly in the areas where I
didn't know about so called credits.
I do have a question about the membership thing and that is: does one have to
pay so much a month? I know you have said that it's cheaper in the long run but
as for myself, I'd much rather pay for a single book and not be tied to a
monthly subscription of sorts. Can you pay this way as well?
Just asking this for my own personal reasons.
On 3 Mar 2017, at 17:29, Sarah Alawami
<marrie12@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I love audable, I will never buy from itunes. The quality is excellent, and I
can read my books on any platform, mac, windows, iphone, android probably etc.
Take care and be blessed.
On Mar 3, 2017, at 8:55 AM, Mary Otten
<motten53@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:motten53@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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<mailto: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<x-msg://4/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<x-msg://4/Audible>'s quality in the
Audible<x-msg://4/Audible> app for IOS?
For those who have the Audible<x-msg://4/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
Audibl<x-msg://4/Audible>e compared to iTunes I would appreciate that as well.
I thanks
Daniel
