[octopoc]

As a user of audible, I do follow some authors but I've found better luck following certain voice actors. It's almost like the voice actor is the critic, and by narrating a story they are recommending it to me. Anybody can take a robot voice and apply it to anything, meaning that just because my favorite robot voice "Robot McRobot" read book XYZ doesn't mean I'll enjoy book XYZ. But because your voice is inherently scarce, you are only likely to read books that "work" for you.

I don't know what the process is for matching voice actor to book, but that process is inherently constrained because the voice belongs to a real human, and I enjoy the output of that process.

That said, while Audible is kind of expensive, I'm afraid that they'll reduce their price and move to robot voices and I'll lose interest entirely despite the cheaper price.