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.
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On Mar 3, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Greg Wocher <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> 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
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On Mar 3, 2017, at 10:42 AM, Daniel McGee <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> 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> 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.
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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
