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KB Sez
@kbsez@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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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Dwev
@dwev@mstdn.dk replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@kbsez @pluralistic there is a growing movement of using the open RSS / podcast mechanism for audiobooks. The Podcasting 2.0 namespace supports the audiobook media type, and pioneers like @truefans are even integrating with the fediverse to create a game-changing “value exchange” to take back the power from big-tech middlemen.
Using the same idea for music has already started to take off, and audiobooks and courses will be next. This is really something to watch.
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Simon Harris
@haruki_zaemon@aus.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@kbsez @pluralistic I wish there were a similar service here in Australia. The exchange rate between USD and AUD makes it 4x as expensive as Audible. It’s probably cheaper to buy the physical books locally 😞
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