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What are your preferred alternatives to Amazon?
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For audiobooks, I personally use Libro FM, though audiobooks.com is also an alternate source. Unfortunately if you're looking only at price, you won't be able to move past Audible because they employ so many shady and bad-for-authors practices that their prices are artificially low. If you're only interested in getting DRM-free Cory Doctorow books, Craphound.
Audible costs me about 12CAD/book
Libro seems to only cost 20CAD/book which is a significant hike but it's not as bad as buying the books outright which costs 30-40$ which is simply too much for me to afford. I'll probably switch when I run out of ausible credits thanks for the rec!
I never understood audible. You pay $15 a month to be able to listen to 1 book per month?
Shout out to librivox, if you haven't heard of it. It's audiobooks recorded by volunteers reading public domain books. Obviously hit or miss on the quality of the reader, but it's free, so you can't complain.
Also, obviously, the humble local library and libby. (P.s., if you can get a few cards to different library systems, it's really easy to get books).