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How to cancel your Audible subscription
Don't find Audible useful? Here's how you can cancel your subscription
Audible is a pretty nifty app, and signing up for a membership gives you access to several top-rated audiobooks across genres and authors. However, if you decide that the subscription is not working for you, canceling it is easy. The best part is that you can do this on any device, whether it's a new Samsung phone, an iPhone, or your laptop.
How to use your monthly Spotify e-book allowance
Here's how to take advantage of your monthly Spotify e-book allowance
If you have a Spotify Premium subscription, you can listen to over 200,000 audiobooks for free and on-demand. With the service just starting, things could change quickly. For now, Spotify is giving 15 hours per month of free audiobook access to individual Premium subscribers and plan managers for Family and Duo accounts.
The digital audio realm has rapidly expanded beyond music. Podcasts paved the way, and now audiobooks are joining the fray, giving users a comprehensive auditory experience. Leading the charge in this evolution is Spotify, which recently announced a significant update to its offerings.
What is Audible Plus and Audible Premium Plus?
Which audiobook subscription service is best for you?
Amazon Audible is one of the most convenient ways to listen to audiobooks and podcasts, but it's hard to tell which Audible membership is best for you. After you've signed up for Audible's excellent free trial, you're ready to choose between the Audible Plus and Audible Premium Plus subscription services.
How to find free audiobooks on the Google Play Store
With a little digging around, you can listen to the best books for free
Audiobooks are great for listening to your favorite titles while doing chores or taking a walk. From conveniently immersing yourself in captivating fictional worlds to learning from inspirational pieces, you only need your mobile device and a pair of good true wireless earbuds to become engrossed in the experience.
Spotify is at its wit's end dealing with Apple and shifting IAP policies
Audiobooks shouldn’t be so hard to buy
Spotify is one of the best streaming apps for music available on mobile today. The service already offers podcasts, but you can now also buy and listen to audiobooks on it. Audiobooks became a part of the app in late September, though Spotify isn't happy with the user experience of purchasing this content when it comes to convenience and user-friendliness. The company pins the blame on all the hoop-jumping required to meet Apple’s ever-changing in-app purchase (IAP) policies. Matters aren't much better on Android, either.
Spotify's audiobooks are finally here, but there's a catch
Get ready to fork over some cash to listen to your favorite books
Spotify has been one of our top destinations for streaming music for years now, and recently we've been checking out its efforts to branch out into other audio content. Not too long ago, it introduced podcasts to the platform, letting you listen to your favorite podcasts and check out thoughtful conversations without requiring a separate app. Now, Spotify is expanding even further, as audiobooks land on the platform.
Spotify targets audiobooks after upending the podcast market
The business wants to introduce some kind of freemium monetization to audiobooks, including ads
Spotify became big thanks to music and its excellent recommendation algorithms, but the company has long decided that it can’t stop there if it wants to keep growing. It has already successfully upended the podcast landscape thanks to its exclusive deals with big podcasters like Joe Rogan, and now, the company is coming for audiobooks.
Spotify is kicking its new audiobook section off with nine classics
They're free to listen to for all Spotify users
Spotify has decided to step into the world of audiobooks, and it's starting things off with nine books you may have heard of narrated by some names you may recognize. If you've been running out of music and podcasts to listen to, it might not be a bad idea to get a better grasp of some literary classics.
You can sample and buy audiobooks right from your Google Assistant speaker or display
Another way you can try before you buy
Happen to have a bit more time and attention to devote to a hobby? Why not listen to audiobooks on your capable Google Assistant speaker or display? Google has made it easier for its smart device owners to sample and buy titles without having to use your phone or computer.
We all need a little storytime once in a while. And we're not talking about the true crime podcasts or the hardcore dramas on Netflix we like to binge, just the good 'ol time of having someone tell your kids or you (we don't judge) a story. Google Assistant already is able to do that through a Google Home speaker, but from now on, it'll also be able to do that from your phone or tablet, too.
Google Play Books adopted the latest iteration of the Google Material theme back in January, doing away with the colorful version that exemplified the original Material Design. This update doesn't have quite as many striking changes, but it does bring functional improvements and a little more customizability to some of the features. Most of the additions are focused on Audiobooks, but you'll also find new icons for the app shortcuts.
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You know what's better than a deal? A freebie. And a freebie for kids is double as awesome — raising a child is expensive and any penny saving is welcome. So if you want to benefit from not one, but thirty freebies, all you have to do is head over to Google Play and grab some Nickelodeon audiobooks.
Every week, I examine somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred app updates while looking for changes. The most interesting things turn into APK Teardowns or Download posts. Many of the remaining updates are unremarkable, amounting to a few bug fixes, routine updates to libraries, or even just pixel-level adjustments to layouts and images. However, there are usually a few updates that land somewhere in between. I don't want to spam readers with dozens of short posts, but I hate to ignore things that people might want to know about, so I'm going to wrap up the leftovers for a little weekend reading and call it Update Notes.
That spookiest of days, Halloween, is nearly upon us, and to celebrate, Google's running sales on all the creepy media you could possibly want. Right now, you can score some solid discounts on seasonally appropriate movies, books, and TV shows on Google Play.
There's really only one game in town when it comes to audiobooks, and that's Audible. That means you have to use the frustrating, awkward Audible app. It's slightly less messy today thanks to a new UI that rolled out sans app update. The new interface cuts down on the clutter and moves useful features into the main player.
The Kindle app for Android has received an update with a couple of useful new features inside. In version 8.6.0.62, which began rolling out a few days ago and seems to have now reached everyone, Amazon's ebook reading app will let you pull to refresh your library, easily see your Audible audiobooks, and return a book you had leased.
April 23rd is World Book Day, and Google is commemorating the occasion with discounts on multiple books on Google Play. The discounts apply not only to regular ebooks, which have existed on Google Play for quite some time, but to audiobooks as well, which were launched just earlier this year.
Audiobooks have only been available on Google Play for barely two months, but Google is already working hard on improving the experience. In a blog post today, Google revealed a few of the new features and improvements it has been adding to make it even more enjoyable to listen to an audiobook with Google Play, whether on the app or through Google Assistant.
Amazon sells a lot of ebooks on its Kindle platform, but it also owns Audible to push audiobooks. It sells a lot of those, too, even though audiobooks tend to be rather spendy. Audible subscriptions are a cheaper way to get the books, and you can save a ton on an Audible subscription today. It's $50 cheaper than usual, and they'll throw in an Echo Dot.