Spotify Plans To Sell Physical Books (spotify.com) 21
Spotify is planning to let premium subscribers in the U.S. and U.K. buy hardcovers and paperbacks directly through its app starting this spring, partnering with Bookshop.org to handle pricing, inventory and fulfillment.
The Swedish streaming company, which entered the audiobook market in 2022, will also introduce a feature called Page Match that lets users scan a page from a physical book or e-reader and jump to the exact spot in the audiobook edition. Spotify will earn an undisclosed affiliate fee on each purchase.
The Swedish streaming company, which entered the audiobook market in 2022, will also introduce a feature called Page Match that lets users scan a page from a physical book or e-reader and jump to the exact spot in the audiobook edition. Spotify will earn an undisclosed affiliate fee on each purchase.
Shame (Score:2)
Oh, except Anthropic destroyed them.
Entitled cunts.
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I prefer ebooks - currently via Nook. If Spotify created a ebook platform, I'd happily check it out
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And almost no one wants paper books anymore.
Aside from the intended insult, I think the more interesting discussion would be chatting about the venn diagram between "likes to read paper books" and "subscribes to Spotify." I've got piles of real books, and continue to purchase and borrow more because I love to read real books. I also have a Nook for new releases before I've decided if they're worth taking up space on my shelves for. I'll purchase the real book if it feels like something I'd like to read again. But I do not, and can not, justify a Spot
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Not an Insult a fact. "about 21% of U.S. adults (43-45 million) have low literacy skills, meaning they struggle with tasks requiring basic reading"
Applying a condition affecting a minority of a population to the entire population is certainly more in the realm of "insult" rather than "fact."
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I'm curious what percentage of book sales are indy-published works, which are mostly e-books.
this theft is court-sanctioned (Score:1)
hey musicians, they're doing this with YOUR money.
Anna's Archive (Score:2)
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Oh, and they lobbied to make copyright terms a reasonable 5 years, that would actually benefit we, the people, who give them the copyright privilege.
Why would you want to.... (Score:2)
If you already have the physical book, why would you want to suddenly jump to an audio version of it? I can't see that market being huge. The only scenario I can think of is if you are reading the book, and you want to continue 'listening' to it when you can't read it (driving in a car, etc.) Most people I know (including myself) are kind of one way or another, they either like reading real books, or listening to audio books. I'm a real book person, but I do listen to a number of podcasts by authors o
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Audio books have never made sense to me, even if I could point out where in an audio clip I want to go. That's b'cos I read faster than what anyone can talk, and sometimes, I may not understand one's pronunciation of certain words. But I do prefer e-books to slaughtered trees: it saves me from having to have shelves, where those books can gather dust, pages can rot... As opposed to that, I can have electronic copies of books on my Nook app, or on my iPad, or even, if I want, on storage media. Searching
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You can increase an audiobook's playback speed. I used to listen to books at around 200%. I could re-listen to them at 250%. Nowadays I'm normally at 130%... My brain must be aging or maybe modern books are faster now or something.
It's also difficult to read while driving, mowing the law, doing dishes, etc... You can consume audio content while doing all of those things.
However as you pointed out, they are horrific at trying to find a specific point in the story or skimming through one.
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If you already have the physical book, why would you want to suddenly jump to an audio version of it? ...
I've done it on occasion. I prefer reading to listening, but I've gotten behind on books I was reading for a book club, so I would listen to the audio-book during my commute and read when I was home. This service would've been pretty handy.
The book was in the public domain, and there was a LibriVox recording, so it didn't cost me anything. I'm pretty cheap, so I wouldn't pay a lot for it.
I'm amused. (Score:2)
Yeah, that's funny.
Spotify to "sell" books (Score:1)
Bookshop.org is backed by a single large book publisher/warehouse company that essentially works with indie bookstore brands to promote sales by giving customers a way to shop local without shopping local. Customers choose the bookstore they want to "buy from" which will receive the sales profit; the actual stores involved don't manage orders or even touch the books, instead books gets warehouse shipped directly to the customer.
I think it's rather a clever way to circumvent the "default" online experience o
Everything I Know About Women I Learned (Score:2)
From My Tractor.
So many usefull books out there.
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