I'm a little confused as to how audio book services have been evolving over the past few years. Audible, owned by Amazon, was doing an acceptable job providing a lot of titles and subscription services. They even let you return digital titles. Recently they're dipping into exclusive titles. So, they went the Netflix route.
While this makes sense, I never saw the quality of the originals as being as good as the books I was already listening to anyway. I suppose more dramatic readings might be nice. The graphical integration on audio books, well, that isn't there really. You can't look at the pictures while driving anyway though. Otherwise I think it's a solution in search of a problem. So I'm not sure how Spotify will compete on this.
Can't these platforms stick to a market? I'm paying for a music streaming service. Spamming me with podcasts and audio books, which I consume in completely separate settings and ways, only makes me inclined to stop paying them.
You're suggesting that a company should be limited to selling one service and one service only? How would you enforce that? And why do you think that would be good for the world (other than yourself)?
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