The Appside » audiobooks http://www.theappside.com Fri, 17 May 2013 15:21:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Audiobooks.com goes a-la-carte (ish) http://www.theappside.com/2013/01/15/audiobooks-com-goes-a-la-carte-ish/ http://www.theappside.com/2013/01/15/audiobooks-com-goes-a-la-carte-ish/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:08:26 +0000 bencardew http://www.theappside.com/?p=14428 Audiobooks.com is shelving its unlimited streaming offer in favour of a cheaper, almost a-la-carte, subscription model. The audio books service will now charge $14.95 for one audiobook a month or $22.95 for two, rather than its previous unlimited offer for $24.95 a month. The move will put it in direct competition with the Amazon-owned Audible, which has long sold audio books on an a-la-carte basis.

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]]> AudiobooksAudiobooks.com is shelving its unlimited streaming offer in favour of a cheaper, almost a-la-carte, subscription model.

The audio books service will now charge $14.95 for one audiobook a month or $22.95 for two, rather than its previous unlimited offer for $24.95 a month. The move will put it in direct competition with the Amazon-owned Audible, which has long sold audio books on an a-la-carte basis.

“After multiple concept tests, our findings showed that we were alienating a significant portion of the market by only offering a high-end plan,” general manager Ian Small told Paidcontent.

Paidcontent explains that Audible offers a far larger range than Audiobooks.com (100,000 versus 25,000), although the latter includes streaming, which Audible does not have.

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]]> http://www.theappside.com/2013/01/15/audiobooks-com-goes-a-la-carte-ish/feed/ 0 Bardowl aiming to bring Spotify-style subscription to audiobooks http://www.theappside.com/2012/06/21/bardowl-aiming-to-bring-spotify-style-subscription-to-audiobooks/ http://www.theappside.com/2012/06/21/bardowl-aiming-to-bring-spotify-style-subscription-to-audiobooks/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:43:47 +0000 Admin http://www.theappside.com/?p=7218 All-you-can-eat subscriptions are all the rage, even if they still have some work to do in proving their business models. Bardowl is a company looking to bring Spotify-style pricing to audiobooks, and take on Audible. Its iPhone app launched this week, streaming audiobooks to the phone and charging £9.99 a month.

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]]> All-you-can-eat subscriptions are all the rage, even if they still have some work to do in proving their business models. Bardowl is a company looking to bring Spotify-style pricing to audiobooks, and take on Audible. Its iPhone app launched this week, streaming audiobooks to the phone and charging £9.99 a month.


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]]> http://www.theappside.com/2012/06/21/bardowl-aiming-to-bring-spotify-style-subscription-to-audiobooks/feed/ 0 Nokia unveils Nokia Reading e-books app for Windows Phone http://www.theappside.com/2012/02/29/nokia-unveils-nokia-reading-e-books-app-for-windows-phone/ http://www.theappside.com/2012/02/29/nokia-unveils-nokia-reading-e-books-app-for-windows-phone/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:10:53 +0000 Admin http://www.theappside.com/?p=4535 Nokia’s latest exclusive app for Windows Phone is called Nokia Reading: its own hub for buying and reading e-books and audiobooks. Publishers Penguin, Hachette and Pearson are all on board for the launch in April. The app will initially be available in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia and Germany. There are plans to go beyond e-books too. “In coming months you’ll also be able to create a personalized magazine page (called “news stream”) that updates content across the most popular categories, and adds web content from your chosen sites,” explains Nokia. A bit like Flipboard…

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]]> Nokia’s latest exclusive app for Windows Phone is called Nokia Reading: its own hub for buying and reading e-books and audiobooks. Publishers Penguin, Hachette and Pearson are all on board for the launch in April. The app will initially be available in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia and Germany. There are plans to go beyond e-books too. “In coming months you’ll also be able to create a personalized magazine page (called “news stream”) that updates content across the most popular categories, and adds web content from your chosen sites,” explains Nokia. A bit like Flipboard…

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