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Reminder for everyone to stop buying audiobooks from #audible (Amazon), and that ethical and better alternatives exist, such as Libro.fm for english language books
Reminder for everyone to stop buying audiobooks from #audible (Amazon), and that ethical and better alternatives exist, such as Libro.fm for english language books
If you like audiobooks, or if you dislike Amazon and how predatory it is, please check out this petition to try to get Audible to change their new proposed payment model to pay authors fairly. Robin Sullivan, wife and business partner of fantasy author Michael Sullivan, does a good job of explaining the new system and showing how bad it will be for authors not in the "Plus" program. Daniel Green just did an interview with Robin on YouTube that does a deep dive into the changes, that's where I found the petition. It's also linked below. Please share the petition with your reader friends!
#Bookstodon#Audiobooks#Audible#Amazon#Books#Authors#WritingCommunity
https://www.change.org/p/convince-audible-to-revise-it-s-new-royalty-model/actions
If you like audiobooks, or if you dislike Amazon and how predatory it is, please check out this petition to try to get Audible to change their new proposed payment model to pay authors fairly. Robin Sullivan, wife and business partner of fantasy author Michael Sullivan, does a good job of explaining the new system and showing how bad it will be for authors not in the "Plus" program. Daniel Green just did an interview with Robin on YouTube that does a deep dive into the changes, that's where I found the petition. It's also linked below. Please share the petition with your reader friends!
#Bookstodon#Audiobooks#Audible#Amazon#Books#Authors#WritingCommunity
https://www.change.org/p/convince-audible-to-revise-it-s-new-royalty-model/actions
Other authors, I actually have enough audio to make a little Sightless Scribbles starter pack audiobook of sorts. Thing is, I am literally the worst with math, so if I tried to do any royalties, I would be in court quicker than you can blink because of my inadequate math skills, so what audiobook platform is everybody using? I don’t want to go with ACX because #Audible hates creatives and is actively trying to harm multiple creators, so does anyone have any other suggestions? Is there a platform that would handle these royalty payouts for me? I’m also not even sure if narrators get royalties or not? I paid for all of these narrations in the past. I’m just collecting them now. #Publishing#Author#Authors#IndieAuthors
Other authors, I actually have enough audio to make a little Sightless Scribbles starter pack audiobook of sorts. Thing is, I am literally the worst with math, so if I tried to do any royalties, I would be in court quicker than you can blink because of my inadequate math skills, so what audiobook platform is everybody using? I don’t want to go with ACX because #Audible hates creatives and is actively trying to harm multiple creators, so does anyone have any other suggestions? Is there a platform that would handle these royalty payouts for me? I’m also not even sure if narrators get royalties or not? I paid for all of these narrations in the past. I’m just collecting them now. #Publishing#Author#Authors#IndieAuthors
So happy to announce this partnership! I've partnered with Sean Crisden to provide his backstage pass folks with audio recordings of my blog posts! This is how he's able to financially narrate these posts, so pick a slot, and subscribe! The first will be a Sensual Exploration of Chocolate, and then an introduction to my work, so check out https://seancrisden.com/pages/backstage-pass#Audible#Audio#Audiobook#Audiobook#Blog#Blogs#IndieWeb
So happy to announce this partnership! I've partnered with Sean Crisden to provide his backstage pass folks with audio recordings of my blog posts! This is how he's able to financially narrate these posts, so pick a slot, and subscribe! The first will be a Sensual Exploration of Chocolate, and then an introduction to my work, so check out https://seancrisden.com/pages/backstage-pass#Audible#Audio#Audiobook#Audiobook#Blog#Blogs#IndieWeb
Been working on de-Amazon-ing... now I'm wondering what Audible alternatives there are.
The library is out because I listen to books while I fall sleep and it can take me a month+ to actually get thru. Needs to be a format with like two month loan periods or somewhere I can get books for a reasonable price.
I know Kobo sells audiobooks, but I wanna know what folks are using and where they're getting books.
That's Done: I CANCELLED AUDIBLE
I've been an #Audiobook listener for 20+ years, mostly because I'm in the car a lot and having kids kills your brain for reading at night. I had over 500 books in my #Audible library but it's time to go.
Doing business with #JeffBezos has just become too unpalatable. That and @pluralistic has taught me to reject DRM and he helped me find https://Libro.fm - I signed up for a membership and have already bought and pre-ordered 6 new books over there.
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That's Done: I CANCELLED AUDIBLE
I've been an #Audiobook listener for 20+ years, mostly because I'm in the car a lot and having kids kills your brain for reading at night. I had over 500 books in my #Audible library but it's time to go.
Doing business with #JeffBezos has just become too unpalatable. That and @pluralistic has taught me to reject DRM and he helped me find https://Libro.fm - I signed up for a membership and have already bought and pre-ordered 6 new books over there.
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So if you need to batch download and de-#DRM your #Audible library, this works stupidly easy so far on my Debian system.
So if you need to batch download and de-#DRM your #Audible library, this works stupidly easy so far on my Debian system.
The Pass the Salt audiobook sample, narrated by Kevin R Free, is now up! https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/episode/88bcf5c8/pass-the-salt-audiobook-sample#Audible#Audiobook#Audiobooks
The Pass the Salt audiobook sample, narrated by Kevin R Free, is now up! https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/episode/88bcf5c8/pass-the-salt-audiobook-sample#Audible#Audiobook#Audiobooks
If you haven’t done this yet, I highly recommend you install Libation and liberate your audiobooks from Audible.
It’s been a month since I first learned of this fantastic, free, libre, open-source project from u/darchangel(not sure if they’re on the fediverse). And unlike so many other OSS projects this one is dead simple to use, accessible to the less technical, and very well documented.
I was able to download my entire Audible audiobook library, with included documents, in just minutes.
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