Audible alternatives for audio-books
- Crafty Goblin
- Mar 13
- 3 min read
Updated: 4 days ago
Same credit based model as Audible and roughtly the same pride and a massive catalog.
💜 My big Plus with Libro FM is that it's the only audiobook platform supporting local indie bookstores.
💵 11,99 Euros for 1 credit per month or 19,99 Euros for 2 credit per month.
📚 500 000 Audiobooks including Best Sellers
➕ The audiobook are DRM free. It means that you owned the content you paid for and can transfer them on whatever devices you are using.
➕ 30% off additional audiobooks
➕ Member-exclusives sales
➕ Credit never expire
➕ Easy return
➕ Supports local bookstores
👉 2 free audiobooks on your first order at registration with the code SWITCH
My own favourite ⭐
💜 Always offer a 30 days unlimited free trial (one trial per email address)
💜 No credit based. And the subscription includes SlideShare and Scribd.
💵 9,99 Euros
📚 Millions of audiobooks AND Ebooks
Unlimited ?
Technically, No. But ! There are monthly limits for some titles on Everand. These limits are caused by each subscriber's individual recent reading/listening activity. If you encounter a limit on a particular title, the title will be inaccessible to you until your next billing cycle. One benefit of our diverse library is that we always offer something you can read in the meantime. Your subscription provides unlimited access to ebooks and audiobooks published by Everand as well as podcasts. I personally usually listen to at least one audiobook per day (even Best Sellers) and I never reached any limitation in 2 years and I read tons of ebooks at the same time via Everand.
➖ You don't own the content as it is not credit based. But you paid for a full catalog of books and audiobooks not book by book.
➕ Offline mode available. Perfect to listen to your book on the go without killing your mobile data allowance.
💜 Can be use directly on your Kobo reader and not credit based.
💵Kobo Listen 7,99 Euros or Kobo Read & Listen 9,99 Euros.
📚 Catalog of 1,5 Millions ebooks and 150 000 audiobooks
💰 30 days free trial for new suscriber
Some are DRM free, some aren't. The ebooks and audiobooks you bought outside of Kobo plus (single buy) can be easily downloaded and owned too. And a lot of them are DRM free already.
📚 120,000 audiobook titles, including best-sellers spanning every genre and new releases added each week.
💵 After 30-day trial, you pay $11.99 per month. Basic plan includes one audiobook each month.
🎧 App for Android or iPhone to play your audiobooks anywhere, even offline. Your stories automatically sync across up to 10 devices. You can even listen to audiobooks in your Bluetooth®-enabled car.
💰 33% off additional audiobooks, discounted extra credits, access to exclusive promotions, and unlimited cloud storage. Members also get 6 months to use credits and up to 30 days to return a book if not 100% satisfied.
💜 Indie Ebooks and audiobook publishing platform and catalog to buy them. Interesting prices and qualitive audio.
➕ Totally DRM free so you own what you buy.
➕ Europe based.
I discovered tons of self published authors here and the prices are very good. As european myself, I like the fact that the platform is Europe based and offers also an alternative to amazon kdp for Indie Author to publish their works.
As a advocate for local libraries, I can only recommend you to also check your local libraries. Not just in USA (Libby, Hoopla), but also in Europe (I'm not as knowledgeable of the library offer outside of this like in India, Asia, ...), most countries offer tons of digital and audio content but also learning tools and languages learning hub. I didn't speak about Libby here, just because I'm Europe based, and as much as I used Libby from Europe before, with non US residents program, it is starting to be super difficult to find US libraries offering non US resident access to Libby anymore. The possibility is still here with two counties, so if you need the infos to access Libby as non US based reader, I can write another post on demand.
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