[axxl]

Got it, so it seems like the contract is just heavily skewed in favor of Amazon, where the content is subsidizing all of the deals and discounts that Audible provides. Although how they can get a 0% royalty on certain sales in is baffling to me.

> But it’s Audible. What choice is there?

Yeah, they sadly seem to be lacking in meaningful competition. People on twitter are talking about libro.fm which has a slew of anti-audible articles, although I can't find any details on their reimbursements either.

[prepend]

> Although how they can get a 0% royalty on certain sales in is baffling to me.

Wouldn’t this be a situation where they gave out promotional copies through free trials and stuff like that?

[falcolas]

It looks like promotional codes are indeed the cause. That said, promo codes are also be sold through third parties. I think that's what's happened in my case.

[falcolas]

> Got it, so it seems like the contract is just heavily skewed in favor of Amazon, where the content is subsidizing all of the deals and discounts that Audible provides.

With how much guff Apple and Google get for their 30% cuts, and they don't offer all kinds of "unauthorized" discounts off the retail price... yeah, Amazon's being a bad actor here.