In Germany you can have a look at the Thalia Hörbuch-Abo. First month free, afterwards 7,95€ per month. You can download one audiobook per month as MP3s. It’s completely DRM free, you do not need to install any additional apps and you can cancel monthly. If you don’t download anything in a period, you collect credits which you can redeem later, also after you cancelled. For the 7,95€ fee you can download audiobooks that are usually way more expensive. I had one that’s regularly priced at 40€.
Are these books available as audiobooks in general? At least so far, everything I wanted was part of the subscription, even really expensive and/or new stuff.
OK, sorry to hear that. As you mentioned audiobooks.com, are you looking for English content maybe? So far, I only downloaded German stuff but of course definitely possible that I’ve just been lucky so far.
@rbn Yeah, I’m looking for English content mainly about software engineering and engineering management, so it’s very specific 😅. But the MP3 download made me look cause that would be awesome.
In Germany you can have a look at the Thalia Hörbuch-Abo. First month free, afterwards 7,95€ per month. You can download one audiobook per month as MP3s. It’s completely DRM free, you do not need to install any additional apps and you can cancel monthly. If you don’t download anything in a period, you collect credits which you can redeem later, also after you cancelled. For the 7,95€ fee you can download audiobooks that are usually way more expensive. I had one that’s regularly priced at 40€.
https://www.thalia.de/hoerbuch-download/dauerformate/hoerbuch-download-abo
@rbn @FallenWalnut sounded great, but after checking, not a single book I want to listen to is available :/
Are these books available as audiobooks in general? At least so far, everything I wanted was part of the subscription, even really expensive and/or new stuff.
Thanks for the suggestion! Will add it to the next version of the guide.
@rbn Yes, I found them on audible and audiobooks.com
OK, sorry to hear that. As you mentioned audiobooks.com, are you looking for English content maybe? So far, I only downloaded German stuff but of course definitely possible that I’ve just been lucky so far.
@rbn Yeah, I’m looking for English content mainly about software engineering and engineering management, so it’s very specific 😅. But the MP3 download made me look cause that would be awesome.