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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In Germany you can have a look at the Thalia Hörbuch-Abo. First month free, afterwards 7,95€ per month. You can download one audiobook per month as MP3s. It's completely DRM free, you do not need to install any additional apps and you can cancel monthly. If you don't download anything in a period, you collect credits which you can redeem later, also after you cancelled. For the 7,95€ fee you can download audiobooks that are usually way more expensive. I had one that's regularly priced at 40€.

https://www.thalia.de/hoerbuch-download/dauerformate/hoerbuch-download-abo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Solange ich mind. 12 Hörbücher im Jahr höre, komme ich damit preislich deutlich günstiger weg. Ich frage mich irgendwie, was der Haken an der Sache ist. Ich sehe soweit die Kundenbindung an Thalia als einzigen Vorteil für das Unternehmen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ja, so ganz erschließt sich mir auch nicht, wieso man - wenn man dieses Abo kennt - noch Hörbücher zum Vollpreis kaufen sollte. Und es lohnt sich wie gesagt auch schon bei weniger als 12, da du ja z.B. nach drei Monaten wieder kündigen kannst. Man kann übrigens auch, wenn man mal mehr Hörbücher braucht als eines pro Monat noch beliebig viele weitere für 7,95€ dazukaufen, wenn man im Abo ist.

Andererseits: Bevor ich das Thalia-Abo entdeckt habt, habe ich mir meine Hörbücher gebraucht bei Kleinanzeigen / Medimops auf CD gekauft. Jetzt macht Thalia circa 90€ Umsatz im Jahr mit mir. Je nachdem, was sie die Lizenzen kosten, vielleicht schon lukrativ.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

In welchen Formaten bekommt man eigentlich die Downloads? Nur mp3 oder auch etwas zeitgemäßer?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bei mir waren es bis jetzt immer MP3s. Spricht da was dagegen? Bei einem Hörbuch würde ich mir jetzt bei FLAC o.ä. keinen signifikanten Mehrwert versprechen und MP3 dürfte hinsichtlich Kompatibilität mit Apps und Abspielgeräten so ziemlich das universellste sein, oder?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Ich dachte eher an Opus oder AAC. Mp3 bietet eine schlechte (aus meiner Sicht hörbare) Audioqualität bei trotzdem großer Dateigröße.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@rbn @FallenWalnut sounded great, but after checking, not a single book I want to listen to is available :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Are these books available as audiobooks in general? At least so far, everything I wanted was part of the subscription, even really expensive and/or new stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the suggestion! Will add it to the next version of the guide.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@rbn Yes, I found them on audible and audiobooks.com

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OK, sorry to hear that. As you mentioned audiobooks.com, are you looking for English content maybe? So far, I only downloaded German stuff but of course definitely possible that I've just been lucky so far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

@rbn Yeah, I'm looking for English content mainly about software engineering and engineering management, so it's very specific 😅. But the MP3 download made me look cause that would be awesome.