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Don’t know about you, but I’m a big fan of audio books and an audible.com subscriber. That said I’m happy to report that another audio book service has opened its virtual doors for business. The name of the company is easy to remember — Audiobooks.com — and unlike audible.com it provides a cloud-based streaming service. Now you may think streaming is bad cause it drains your battery life, while eating previous megabytes from your monthly data allowance, and somewhat I agree with that. However, I guess folks behind the service target users with phone chargers in their home, office and cars, who at the same time are subscribed on an unlimited data plan or at least some with few gigs of data allowance per month.
Price wise, $24.95 per month gets you unlimited service on iOS and Android-based devices with no need to return audio books, no long-term contracts and no time constraints on audio book use. There’s also the ability to resume playback so you can easily continue listening at the same spot after a while…
I like more competition and I still have to try out Audiobooks.com to have a real opinion. However without some local file caching I doubt I’ll switch from audible.com, even though it’s a pain lately to get audio books from it — I have some country specific/book rights problems, but that’s a local issue.
So what do you say? Do you mind streaming your audio books?
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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