Audible and audiobooks, the fastest growing part of publishing
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#2Tried parsing through the first few paragraphs; can someone offer a tl;dr of how Audible is assaulting leisure time?
Is it because Audible can be listened to while performing other tasks or going about your day, and it removes the previously quiet, uninterrupted time of the day to ponder?
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#3Audible's greatest assault is on my wallet. So many audiobooks on that platform are exorbitantly expensive.
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#4I just wish Audible had adopted a Netflix-style distribution system rather than an Amazon.com style one. Watching all the Netflix I want costs me fifteen dollars a month. Listening to all the Audible content I want would cost me hundreds if not thousands of dollars a month because I'd have to purchase each piece of media individually.
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#5Tried parsing through the first few paragraphs; can someone offer a tl;dr of how Audible is assaulting leisure time? Is it because Audible can be listened to while performing other tasks or going about your day, and it removes the previously quiet, uninterrupted time of the day to ponder?
The article looks like a profile of Audible and the growth of the audiobook market, as well as some sort of critique of it. Let's not focus only on the critique part. Titles tend to do that—focus attention on too small a spot—so we've replaced the title above with a wider phrase from the article. Actually, we already did replace the title with the subtitle in the hope of widening the focus, but it didn't work.
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#6Well, you are free to not do it
In fact I can't stand podcasts or similars for the most part as I can't do some things while listening to it. Maybe driving but that's it.
As much as it's nice to learn stuff, at some point it is just shallow edutainment (as much as I like some of the science yt channels)
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#7I just love audio books. I listen to them while walking the dog, working out or doing chores around the house.
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#8I think that article would have been better in audible form ;)
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#9Well, you are free to not do it In fact I can't stand podcasts or similars for the most part as I can't do some things while listening to it. Maybe driving but that's it. As much as it's nice to learn stuff, at some point it is just shallow edutainment (as much as I like some of the science yt channels)
I like podcasts because it turns things that I used to absolutely hate doing like dishes or gardening into somewhat enjoyable for me.
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#10Tried parsing through the first few paragraphs; can someone offer a tl;dr of how Audible is assaulting leisure time? Is it because Audible can be listened to while performing other tasks or going about your day, and it removes the previously quiet, uninterrupted time of the day to ponder?
Kinda, but I admit to being confused as well...
'It’s simplistic but not entirely inaccurate to say that Audible’s parent, Amazon, is to book publishing what Facebook and Google are to magazines: the troll under the bridge whose idea of a toll is to devour consumers and competitors whole.' and
'On the train to get coffee with a well-meaning writer twenty years your senior who will advise you to “climb the ladder” like she did. By listening, you partially reclaim the lost hours, preserving some ghost of an alternate universe where you don’t have to do what you’re doing, and you’re on the couch reading the old-fashioned way instead.'
Personally, I find audio-books almost completely different from active reading... mostly distracted entertainment rather than true immersion.