A gorgeous Sunday morning. Honestly? I don’t remember what I talked about this morning. Something about Nathan Lowell Presents and Brand Gamblin. Something about what I’m going to be doing today (laundry) and looking ahead to the week. In ten days I fly to Maine. Not terribly inspiring morning from me but the walk was glorious.
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I went to Audible and they say you have 2 books although one has a bunch of other narrators as well. The one book was not something I would buy based on the blurb. I for one am not sure spending your time on books for Audible would fit in to what you are all about. I do understand money talks so if it would be a good income go for it. For myself I can say without a doubt I would not buy or listen to them on Audible. I do not have a subscription and will not be getting one. I have purchased all of the Riyria books except the last one on Kindle and would listen to them if they were on Podiobooks. Orbits right or wrong is pricing them out of my range on Kindle. I understand there reasoning but I will not pay dead tree prices for a Kindle book no matter who the author is. I have read every book David Weber has ever written up to and until they priced there Kindle books the same as the hard cover. I no longer read David. I also no longer buy paper books of any kind. That is a stand I can live with even though it is sad for me and the authors with the big publishers.
Yeah. I don’t have an Audible subscription and I have no interest in getting one myself.
There are a *lot* of authors who are moving in this direction, but I can’t for the life of me figure out why.
And I’m in the same boat with Weber and Jim Butcher and … gosh, pretty much all the mainstream authors I used to like a lot. Mainstream press is just not getting the message.
Hi all,
I must say that a podiobooks addiction drove me to audible. Basically I enjoy Podiobooks as an experience the ability to consumed at anytime and anywhere (From the gym to my walk to and from work) I really liked the experience and I have consumed many podiobookâs.
But over time I started to miss out on the conversation about mainstream books with friends. I resolved this by joining Audible.com. In the last month that allowed me to get a copy of Phoenix Rising and Game of Thrones.
I have found that the short stories Pip and Tee put up and the TV show has got me to the Game of Thrones pushed me to the audible books . If I get something for free I will buy the next instalment or related work if it is in a format that I enjoy like audio.
I will and have purchased hardcopy book just becouse I want to reward authors for great product but if you give me a choice I will buy audio over text. If Mike was to put the reast of the Ryerra books on Audible I would buy quickly. Likewise if South Coast was audio only by Audible it would be high on my list.
To my shame I prefer to buy the author work in a mainstream market like Kindle, Amazon or Audible over the podiobooks donation system.
No shame in that, Darren.
We all do that which makes most sense for each of us. Some people won’t buy Kindle because it’s Amazon, preferring the Smashwords versions instead. Some won’t go to Audible because of the DRM and proprietary formats. Others will only listen to Ogg Vorbis.
Viva la difference and on with the show.
Count me in for Ogg Vorbis. I use it for all my music but I still use MP3 as well if thats how I get the product.
I doubt we’ll see .OGGs any time soon – that’s that much extra time to prepare them, upload them to the server, etc, that Dr. Lowell could be devoting to other things, including writing. Even though he uses Ubuntu – I don’t think it’s because he’s rabidly into the moral side of FOSS, but more a matter of computer geekery. I think he doesn’t put DRM on the files mostly because he believes (and it’s a correct belief, I think) that the PITA that DRM creates just results in lost sales.