April 2019 book talk and book deals

@f00l Well, crap, this is a very nice offer.

@Barney

If you have a current Audible credit subscription (which makes you an “audible member”), there are bennies.

Such as choose two free Audible Original audiobooks a month (choose from among six, selection changes monthly)

And members get to participate in sales.

Audible prob needs to add a cheaper subscription option. Such as 1 new credit every two months. That would being more “not yet audiobook addicts” in.

@f00l, thanks for the tag. I got this as a freebie when it was first released in October of 16. Good story that really left me wanting more.

@Barney, I believe the Audible membership sale is still going on. $99 for a year with all 12 book credits up front. Also, @f00l didn’t specifically mention the Audible Daily Deals. Every day, one book discounted to around $3 to $6. Maybe half my library is Daily Deal books. Plus there are freebies from time to time.

@Barney @f00l @ruouttaurmind I got this as a freebie too. I really liked the narrator. (It’s Spock.)

@f00l @ruouttaurmind @sammydog01 La la la la la la la la la. I can’t hear you – I’m trying to control my spending. La la la la la la la la la.

@f00l @ruouttaurmind I would subscribe if I actually listened to books. Maybe I will in the future, after my cataract surgery ends up ruining my eyes instead of improving them and Lady has to become my seeing eye dog.

@Barney @f00l @ruouttaurmind Does your library have audiobooks? If so you can get them all for free and feel superior to the suckers who pay for them. If not, some libraries offer inexpensive memberships to non residents.

@Barney @f00l @ruouttaurmind
https://libraryweb.org/using_the_library/out-of-county-residents/

@f00l @ruouttaurmind @sammydog01 I just checked my Audible library. I have around 120 books, including The Dispatcher. Most of them were free or just a few dollars.

I’m ashamed to say that I haven’t listened to any of them.

@Barney

I would subscribe if I actually listened to books.

Well then I’d say this is not the deal you’re looking for.

I have a 90 minute (round trip) commute to work 4 or 5 days a week, so audiobooks keep me from going insane listening to the same pop song playing on the radio 3 times in a single drive.

@ruouttaurmind I actually came very close to subscribing to this deal a few days ago.

Yep, I have a problem…

@Barney @ruouttaurmind I bought a bunch back in the days you didn’t need a membership for the daily deal. And last year around black Friday. So I have a ton too.

@Barney

I actually came very close to subscribing to this deal

Ya, don’t do that. Or at least listen to one first and decide if it’s for you.

@Barney @ruouttaurmind @sammydog01

I sometimes get audiobooks from the library.

Like audible a lot tho. And the selection there is far superior. And if I own a book, no waiting, listen when I want.

And if digital rights are available in the US, audible will have all of an entire popular series, not just pieces of it.

(When some popular books have digital rights available elsewhere, such as in the UK [so that the audible is available on audible.co.uk], but those rights are not available here [so that the same book is not available on audible.com], I start feeling seriously murderous towards the publisher.)

And if I purchase a book, the writer gets paid.

@Barney @ruouttaurmind

Audible membership sale is still going on. $99 for a year with all 12 book credits up front

Do you have a link for that? I prob ought to just renew instead of purchasing credits 3 at a time.

@Barney @f00l @ruouttaurmind I’m pretty sure the library pays for their books too.

@f00l @ruouttaurmind I do have a link. The offer expires today, April 5.

https://www.audible.com/ep/lto?source_code=AUDOR1970305199POB&ref_=pe_3182740_398758560

@Barney @ruouttaurmind @sammydog01

I think the libraries each purchase the rights to simultaneously lend a certain number of copies of a given book (as a digital download) - from 1 to however many copies they want to pay for.

For best sellers, a well funded library will purchase (for a specific time period) a larger number of “# of copy lend rights” at release date, to deal with demand.

After the demand drops, they purchase (ongoing) fewer #-of-copy-lend-rights for the same book.

Even so, there can be long waits for a given book.

Or something like that.

Anyway, I do like audible v much.

I also like libraries a lot.

I suspect writers make more off actual sales of books to consumers. Dunno.

Anyway I like owning books. Or “owning” “digital format downloadable book” rights.

Prob not a fully rational attitude …

Sigh

/giphy irrational

@Barney @ruouttaurmind
Thx re kink.

@f00l Uh, I’m not going to say anything, are you @ruouttaurmind?

@Barney I’m just sittin’ here mindin’ my own business…

@Barney @ruouttaurmind

Oops.

I blame autocorrect. Totally.

@ruouttaurmind

Thx. Had not done my daily visit yet.

@f00l Kinda slim picking this time though.

@ruouttaurmind

When they run these sales I often find I already own much of what I might otherwise purchase.

A nice thing!

Also … I suppose the strongest sales areas on the site would be romance (not my thing), and SF.
Along with the usual run of bestsellers.

But they may vary the content of these sales over time to hit different costumer groups. Perhaps, this time, they weren’t aiming at us.

@sammydog01

Ohhh! A new one!

Thx!

@sammydog01

This site has some really great discounts on more than one item at a time.

Bought the Henning Mankel.

I’ll take a look at the others when I get time.

Thanks again.

@f00l I bought that one too.

@f00l I love his stuff.

@sammydog01

Much thx!

@f00l And the Audible add-ons are two bucks.