The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
The Law and novella
Mira:
--- Quote ---Ok, I am worried.
I don't understand audiobooks too well. I hope this is going to be eventually published some way I can read.
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Yeah, the "exclusive" part pisses me off a wee bit.. I don't buy them, have no desire to, I prefer to and have the time to read my books. This is a strict marketing ploy designed to "hook" more customers for Amazon, and apparently Jim is going along with it.
Conspiracy Theorist:
It means you can’t buy it from the Apple Store or other audio book market places, so definitely an Amazon marketing ploy. When published in hard copy format Amazon have no hope of keeping it exclusive to them. They hope you will buy the rest of the series on audible, get audible pay money to Amazon.
Obviously Jeff Bezos is Black Council in the Dresdenverse.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on May 06, 2022, 12:04:38 PM ---It means you can’t buy it from the Apple Store or other audio book market places, so definitely an Amazon marketing ploy. When published in hard copy format Amazon have no hope of keeping it exclusive to them. They hope you will buy the rest of the series on audible, get audible pay money to Amazon.
Obviously Jeff Bezos is Black Council in the Dresdenverse.
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Amen, though I buy a lot of crap from Amazon and enrich Mr Bezos, I am not going to switch to audible books just for him, nor for Jim as far as that goes. Still love the Dresden Files but I am not going to buy a format that doesn't fit me. I understand that others like audible books for a number of reasons and I respect that and see nothing wrong with them.
Conspiracy Theorist:
I got Audible when I had significant vision impairment for several months. The first thing I bought was the Bigfoot Stories, they weren’t published in text until 2 years later.
It’s like Zoom and Facetime they are both good enough for the deaf to lip read or sign on, so having a mobile phone for the deaf has made their life so much easier, rather than be a distasteful joke.
So to the extent it is giving a bonus to the visually impaired community then I do not regret pre-ordering on Audible. It’s just that the evil ferromancer Bezo’s doesn’t need my money.
morriswalters:
I could care less about Bezos or Musk or any other Robber Baron. I'm not income restrained and I've had Audible for years. It will come out sooner or later on the library lending service either alone or in some type of bundle. I also suspect it will sooner or later end up on Kindle and as a paper book. But he made me wait six years for a new book and then he gave me a sub par performance, IMO. Now Butcher needs to earn my trust to entice me to spend my dollars on him.
Having said all that it does make me wonder if something is going on in the background.
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