Audiobooks.com VS Libro.fm

Can someone tell me how audiobooks.com works?lol I signed up to try it out but I don't know how to use credit, it only allows me to play sample or buy it for 28$. Source: 11 months ago

It's been a couple years since I last looked into audiobooks.com, but I recall that Audible had the advantage on selection and also by having the (limited) option of returning books. The option to return books was pretty important to me. Source: about 1 year ago

Try a different supplier? Not sure what there is in the US. My alternative is audiobooks.com or Scribd. You could also try the library, I know some of them rent audiobooks. Source: over 1 year ago

Looks like you can do a 30 day trial here and get it. I've never signed up for audiobooks.com, so I'm not sure how good it is, maybe do a search here for feedback first. Https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/im-glad-my-mom-died/575271. Source: over 1 year ago

Audiobooks.com You get 1 credit a month, which can either be used to purchase a book (that you can listen to any time) or you can use it for a 1 month membership to an all you can listen to club. They have several clubs - Romance, Religion, Mystery, etc, and for that month you can listen to as many books as you want that are included in that club. When you start the next month, you can choose a new club or the... Source: over 1 year ago

Hi! My kids were just listening to the first chapter of A Christmas Carol offered on 24 Days of Yoto. Are they seriously not offering the rest of this as a digital download? Please tell me I'm missing it. The processing/shipping time of physical cards is not awesome to my city (like weeks) so for seasonal things like this it doesn't make sense for us unless I plan way ahead. I can't imagine they would miss... Source: 6 months ago

Hello all, does anyone know of a platform specifically made to cater to schools? I think Audible used to have one, but it's either discontinued entirely, or no longer available in Europe. I've found a couple made within educational systems (e.g. UK system) but not available to other countries. The closest I've come so far is libro.fm for business - waiting to hear back from them to see if it's suitable. I'm truly... Source: 6 months ago

Big stores that sell DRM-free e-books: - https://www.ebooks.com/en-uk/drm-free/ - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ Audiobooks: - https://libro.fm/ - https://www.downpour.com/ Other lists and tips: - https://libreture.com/bookshops/ - https://aperiodic.net/phil/archives/Geekery/where-to-get-ebooks/ (Here in Norway we've so far been lucky, I've yet to see e-books with DRM. There's ebok.no which does watermarks, but... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Whenever I buy something, I start by trying to find a DRM-free version. ebooks.com has a whole section devoted to this (https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/drm-free/) and https://libro.fm exclusively sells DRM-free. Failing that, I mostly get things from my local library (via Libby). Conveniently, those all have weak DRM, so one could still build a personal library that way. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

A slight quibble: > They require mandatory DRM for every book sold, locking those books forever to Amazon's monopoly platform. If you break up with Amazon, you have to throw away your entire audiobook library. While it's true that your purchases are tied to your Amazon account, they are not tied to your audible subscription (if you have one). That's a nice touch. Even better, the DRM is trivially easy to... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago