Thank you. I'll keep this information and join when I become more financially stable. Connie
-----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 3:38 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: audible? Hi Conni, As Gerado said, the app is free, but you do have to buy the books. Buying books Is not possible from the app because if Audible allowed purchases of books from the app this would be considered an in-app purchase and Apple would collect 30% of the price which of course Audible which is owned by Amazon, would not like. Therefore you have to buy your books on the Audible website either with your computer or you could go to audible.com with Safari on the iPhone and browse and buy books. Once a book has been purchased it gets added to your library and anything in your Audible library is available from the Audible app and can be downloaded directly to the app where you can then listen it. Audible books are yours forever, e.g. if you buy a book you can listen to it and then delete it from your device. But just like music or apps you buy from iTunes, youc an redownload any book you ever bought even if you cancel your membership. Now, here is how memberships work: You can sign up for an Audible account and you can actually use your Amazon email address and password to sign in. You can buy books without a membership, but that is quite expensive with books costing often anywhere from $20 to $50. Memberships work with a credit system and most books cost 1 credit with a few exceptions where a book might cost 2 credits. Also, if you have a membership you get I think 30% off any books you buy for cash. You can subscribe to a membership In one of 2 ways: 1. Get 1 credit per month for a monthly cost of $14.95 (Gold subscription) or get 2 credits per month for $22.95 (Platinum subscription). 2. Buy 12 or 24 credits at once for I think $169 or $229, respectively. This option is a bit less expensive if you can afford to make the one-time payment and it also gives you the option to buy more credits if you use them up faster. For example, you could buy 24 credits and if you use them up in 3 months and can afford it you could buy another 24 credits. The monthly plan gives you 1 or 2 credits a month and that's it except for when Audible gives you the option to buy an extra 3 credits which is a promotion they often do for members. There are also other member promotions, like sometimes you can pick 3 books from a list of books and you can buy these for 2 credits if you have accumulated some credits. Credits do, by the way, not go away if you don't use them, they do accumulate for a certain time although if you didn't use them for a long time they do go away. Another promotion they do a few times a year is to let you buy books once again from a preselected list of maybe 100 or 200 books and then all books on that list might only be $4.95. They also have a "daily deal" where if you sign up for it you get an email once a day which allows you to buy whichever book is picked for anywhere from $1.95 to $5.95. Buying 24 credits at once is the least expensive per book option as this breaks down to approx. $9.54 per credit which typically means per book. The only thing that's cheaper is if you take advantage of one of the $4.95 specials or maybe use the get 3 books for 2 credits, then if you bought your credits as a 24 pack, you would get 3 books for about $19, so about $6.36 per book. I usually listen to unabridged books only and I rarely buy any books which are less than 9 or 10 hours in length. Many unabridged novls are longer than that, for example, there are some Steven King books which are over 40 hours. I do consider this a pretty good bang for my buck amd the recording quality and the quality of the readers typically is outstanding. One of my favourites is a reader called Humphrey Bower, an Australian actor, who reads all of the Bryce Courtenay novels, both the books and the reader are outstanding. As for the app, it is fully accessible and has become a lot better over time. You can probably tell that I am quite an Audible fan and one advantage of Audible is also that quite often they have brandnew books almost at the same time as they are published in print. Lastly, if you do sign up for a membership you do get to pick your first book for free and, as I said before, if you keep your membership only for 1 year and then don't renew, all the books you bought are available to you to listen to forever. You could use the Audible Manager on the computer as well to physically download the books to your computer, but while I started doing this at first, I don't any more since I can redownload them from my Audible library at any time and I pretty much exclusively use my iPhone to listen to them. You can even return a book if you buy one you end up not liking, just call customer service and even if you did listen to most or all of it, you can just tell them you didn't like the book and you either get your credit back or if you bought it for cash it will be refunded to your credit card. I assume that they would probably put a stop to it if you did this with every book, but it's nice that they allow it because sometimes I really have bought a book which sounded good and wasn't at all what I expected. One thing you can't do is share Audible books with friends as they are protected although if you have somebody you trust completely you could of course share your login information, but this is also your Amazon login information so you really do want to trust that person. Regards, Sieghard ----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of connie mohney Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 11:44 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: audible? Hello everyone, I was listening to pandora today and heard the audible app is free. Has anyone used audible? Do you buy the books on audible or are they free? Thank you in advance. Connie Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. 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