Most Popular Audiobook Service: Audible
Finding time to listen to audiobooks is easy – almost as easy as finding great audiobooks to listen to. Last week we asked your favorites , then looked at the top five audiobook services and put them to a vote. It’s time to highlight your favorite.
Unsurprisingly, the winner in this category won. Audible , an Amazon company, took first place by a wide margin with over 70% of the vote. This is not surprising – many of you noted that you didn’t even know there were other reliable audiobook services out there – although some of you said you were happy to check out the alternatives.
Second place went to another predictable contender, OverDrive , a service that lets you check out audiobooks from the public library for free using only your library card and an internet-connected device. He got about 20% of the vote. As a result, all three of the remaining contenders fought for the last 10% – and Scribd , often known as a service that makes it easier to embed documents on the Internet, came in third with 5% of the total votes. The selection of audiobooks is quite extensive and the prices are competitive compared to others. Hoopla Digital , another service that offers free audiobooks to libraries and other public institutions (and allows them to receive them for free), came in fourth with 2.4% of the vote, followed by Downpour , a DRM-like Audible service. -Free audiobooks that you can take anywhere and play on anything with just over 2% of the votes.
To learn more about each of them, as well as honorable mentions not listed here, be sure to return to our full Hive Five feature to find out more.