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> 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
