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I am an avid listener of books. I listen to more than I read. I spend 35min. a day listening to Audiobooks. It frustrates me that Apple has deals in place for music & music videos, now iTunes Radio too, television shows, movies, textbooks, and even ebooks, but not audiobooks. Wouldn’t they be the same people you worked out book deals with for iBooks?
If I buy an audiobook on my iPhone, I have to take it home, sync it with my computer and then sync my iPad with my computer to get the audiobook over there. Plus if my iTunes on my computer ever fails, I can’t download any of the audiobooks purchased from the iTunes store. I love out the Audible app now because I can do all of those things. PLUS I can listen on multiple devices and have my playback synced. Now I can listen to the book and then switch over to my Kindle app and continue reading where I left out listening. They only thing I would suggest to Audible is a subscription plan that lets you listen to books instead of buying them. I would still buy some books but not every book I listen to I want to own.
Come on Apple, get on the ball, our have you given up? Audiobooks is the only digital product you sell that are not in iCloud. I expect more from you Apple, but I guess you gave up innovating and conceded to Audible/Amazon as the better platform.
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UPDATE 04/28/2016:
Well it only took 3 years but Apple will finally let you download Audiobooks you have already purchased to your device (in iBooks). Plus you can see them in the purchased tab. They were really slow catching up to audible, who still has an edge on them in the UI plus the advantage of getting the companion ebook at a reduced rate (or vise versa). But thank’s Apple!
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I have bought my last audiobook through apple. With no cloud services, they can kiss my substantial revenue stream goodbye (500 audio books and counting). I now buy my audiobooks through audible/amazon. With that and the kindle reader app, im left scratching my head on why i own an ipud anymore, and am looking at either a windows 8, android tablet or a kindle, all of which at least have a file structure you can store a real document on, rather than having each app store its individual files.
Cant wait for the day im playing an apple quicktime video app on a kindle fire.
Wake up apple. The $$$ margin’s in the content, and the content needs to be available all the time on any device with an authorized account. Wake up and smell reality. How are your sales figures on ebooks and audio books lately? Expect video sales to head the same direction – south.
Open up your network to apple content running on apple apps in the kindle and google play store. If people buy your content, they should be able to play it on any smart device via an apple app.
Thats why amazon and audible kick your butt in ebook and audiobook sales. And the amazon video app is available too with the same shows and movies, many of which are free on amazon prime. Netflicks too, apps and content on mutiple platforms.
Hear that giant sucking sound? Its revenue opportunity flying out of your wallet while the public seeks content and device providers that supply what the public has always wanted – to play what they want, when they want it, where they want it, on the device they want and access the content from anywhere, meaning cloud access to all their purchases.
Apps on other platforms and cloud storage for everything you sell. What a concept. Call Samsung and Amazon if you Need help to figure it out. Its where your former customers will be hanging out and paying for content every day and gradually moving to a hardware platform with a more open content access mentaility. Enjoy that once every two year hardware revenue from a new ipad purchase or upgrade. Hope that is enough to make that quarterly revenue target. It sure wont be from your content sales.