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Spotify’s Next Audiobook Offering is a Weird One
I’ve heard that audiobooks are doing properly at Spotify (maybe to the chagrin of the parents who don’t like both/each of Spotify’s fee schemes or the concept of audiobook streaming in any respect). And the announcement of an Audiobooks Access Tier sounds just like the form of factor that, when you like audiobooks, you’ll additionally like. As I do. But I don’t like this plan. It is priced at $9.99, which is $1 cheaper than the premium plan. The solely distinction is that on this new plan, your music and podcasts may have advertisements in them. The variety of audiobook hours (15) stays the identical. So you save a buck to hearken to advertisements when you ever hearken to music or podcasts. Now I assume if audiobooks are the ONLY factor you’re utilizing Spotify for, a buck is a buck. Seems like modest temptation. Perhaps it’s focused on the 1-book-a-month plan from Audible, which is $14.95. But then it’s a must to depend hours, which stinks, even when most audiobooks that most individuals hearken to are below 15 hours. All in all a weirdly rinky-dink transfer.
Neuromancer Coming to Apple TV
If you made an inventory of vastly influential however as of but unadapted novels, Neuromancer can be method up there. If you understand the time period cyberpunk, it’s due to this novel (which was additionally the primary novel to realize the SF triple crown, successful the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip Ok. Dick Awards). Is it a little bit of a twist of the knife that it’ll lastly be tailored by an enormous, multi-trillion-dollar company? Yes. Will Apple spend the dough to make it look implausible? Absolutely. Will it’s good? One by no means is aware of.
How Larry McMurtry’s Book Collection Ended Up within the Lobby of Hotel Owned by Chip and Joanna Gaines
Nice little Paris Review piece about going to see the subsequent resting place for Larry McMurtry’s legendary e-book assortment (or a minimum of part of it). It began out as a book-by-the-foot request from Joanna that Chip realized he may fulfill by shopping for one of the well-known e-book collections within the U.S. Sounds prefer it makes an important for-the-gram second within the foyer of this lodge, which I assume is what they had been going for.
The “It” Books of March
It’s the time once more: Rebecca Schinsky and I are again to attempt to choose the “It” e-book of March.
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