Yes throw books! Throw them all! Baha!I hope they throw it in on Apple one premium.
Yes throw books! Throw them all! Baha!I hope they throw it in on Apple one premium.
The prices are set by the publisher of the ebook, nothing to do with Apple.sorry - apple's pricing on eBooks is way too high. greedy ****ers drive everyone to Amazon.
Apple in 2022 could expand its services portfolio to add an audiobooks service, according to a report from The Economist (via 9to5Mac) that outlines Apple's efforts to break into media and compete with Netflix, Amazon, and other companies.
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The Economist goes over all of Apple's existing services like Apple TV+, Apple Music, Apple News+, Apple Arcade and Apple Fitness before throwing in a one line mention of a possible audiobooks offering.There are no details beyond the quick mention of an audiobooks option, so it's not clear where The Economist's information is coming from nor what an audiobooks product from Apple might look like, but with Apple already competing in podcasts and books, audiobooks could be the next logical step.
Apple already sells audiobooks through its Apple Books app, but books are only sold on a one-off basis with no option for unlimited listening. Apple could perhaps develop a service similar to Amazon's Audible, which offers credits for audiobooks for a monthly fee along with a selection of "Audible Plus" titles that do not require credits.
Pricing on Audible Plus starts at $7.95 for a limited selection of audiobooks that does not include new releases, while Audible Premium Plus is priced at $14.95 for Plus access and a credit for a new book each month. Offering an audiobooks service that includes unlimited access to new audiobooks is probably unlikely given the cost and royalties involved with audiobooks, so Apple would likely need to use Amazon's format or something close to it.
Article Link: Apple Might Be Developing an Audiobooks Service
It’s called prioritization.Shocked they're just thinking about this now
I really, really love audible. I subscribe with a yearly subscription and I get a certain number of credits that allow me to purchase books and not pay for them separately.Audible is king.
Wonder what apple will tell us about their "revolutionary" approach on this subject.
Total *********. I looked at several kindle books this weekend, and the same books on Apple were at least $5 more.The prices are set by the publisher of the ebook, nothing to do with Apple.
I think ending iBooks Author was a mistake but that's because I used it to convert my course notes into interactive searchable documents. Real books published with it felt cookie cutter and cheap.Little late? I hope they do it to encourage competition. But books, audiobooks, podcasts, and voice assistants were all missed opportunities for the 2010's. Apple could have been a dominant player in each of these. Instead we have Amazon, Amazon, Google/Spotify and Google/Amazon/ sort of Apple, respectively.
I find prices fluctuate a lot and they seem to have a rotating retail presence similar to how video games go on sale at Walmart, then Best Buy, then Target, then Amazon... Have you tried cheapcharts.info? It lets you search iTunes, App Store, Mac App Store, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play, Xbox, PS Store, and N eShop for games, movies, TV, music, audiobooks, books, and apps.Total *********. I looked at several kindle books this weekend, and the same books on Apple were at least $5 more.
The kind of person doing enough audiobooks or ebooks to warrant a subscription would read a lot, lot more than that.Better yet, Apple One Premium should include 1 free audiobook, ebook, or movie rental per month.
Now that you mention it I can’t delete a verse from song on Apple Music or a scene from one of Apple’s movies or TV shows.Want to delete a chapter from an audiobook? Can't do it.
Have you looked at the definition of a rumor?Oh, my favorite site — MightRumors.com
Why would an author, a narrator, or a tech company give there work for free? How entitled can someone be.At the right price (free) I’d be all over this
Hilarious ? The point is that if you want to edit the tags of one chapter in an audiobook, you cannot delete just that chapter and replace it with an edited version.Now that you mention it I can’t delete a verse from song on Apple Music or a scene from one of Apple’s movies or TV shows.
That’s not what was said. Are you now saying when you add tags they are permanent?Hilarious ? The point is that if you want to edit the tags of one chapter in an audiobook, you cannot delete just that chapter and replace it with an edited version.
I am surprised and glad to see people still prefer reading books on paper rather than on all sorts of electronic devices. Paper book always come with irreplaceable advantages over eBooks and such because of its distraction-free experience. It’s too bad that companies are working extremely hard to make sure next generation never truly know the advantage of reading books, or aware of its existence at all.Ebooks are a still growing business and the pandemic obviously grew sales but paperbacks still outsold ebooks by 3 to 1 in 2020 and have actually increased in popularity again with book shops popping up everywhere. People just prefer turning a physical page and not being distracted by their device or having to adjust screen brightness and all that.
I was on a developer forum where they had a poll asking if developers preferred learning code from paper books, ebooks or websites. Paper books had 90% of the vote. They said they like to scribble in margins, fold page corners, own nice book shelves.
Why can't Siri read books yet?
Very very entitled. Thank you for noticingWhy would an author, a narrator, or a tech company give there work for free? How entitled can someone be.