All about the Audible Standard subscription
This post is sponsored by Audible
Recently, Audible launched a new plan option and I’m excited about it!
It’s called Audible Standard and here’s what you need to know about it.
First of all, it’s helpful to know about Audible’s highest tier plan, called Audible Premium Plus.
Audible Premium Plus costs $14.95 per month, and you get one credit per month to spend on any audiobook you want from the Audible catalog. That audiobook will be yours forever, even if you cancel your Audible membership (it will always be in your Audible account and in the Audible app, which you can access without a subscription).
You also have access to the Audible Plus catalog (around 150,000 books) which you can listen to without using credit.
You also have access to Audible sales where audiobooks are on big sale (think $2-4 each).
This is the Audible Premium Plus plan, which has been around for ages.
The new plan, Audible Standard, takes the place of the Audible Plus plan where you only had access to the Audible Plus catalog (the aforementioned 150,000 included audiobooks). Personally, it wasn’t a plan that ever really got me out of bed, so I’m not at all sad to see it go.
Instead, the new Audible Standard plan lets you choose one audiobook per month from the entire Audible catalog (just like the Audible Premium Plus plan). The main difference is that instead of owning that audiobook forever, you will lose all your audiobooks if you cancel your Audible membership.
It also costs just $8.99 per month, so significantly cheaper than the Audible Premium Plus plan.
For some listeners, not owning the audiobook is a total deal breaker, but for people who don’t go back and listen to audiobooks again after the first listen, this is a great way to get access to new releases, interesting audiobooks, or hard-to-find titles without paying the premium price to own them forever.
Most people quickly know which plan is best for them and I’m glad it’s now both options, so you can make the right choice for you depending on your listening habits.
And if you currently have a different plan and want to upgrade to the Audible Standard plan, you can do so on the Audible website.
Here are some other things to know about the Audible Standard plan:
- If you are currently an Audible Premium Plus member and want to switch to the Audible Standard plan, any audiobooks you purchased on Audible Premium Plus will be yours forever. They won’t disappear when you switch to Audible Standard.
- You will not have access to Audible sales – when they mark down all their audiobooks, you won’t get the retail prices.
- Your credits do not transfer to Audible Standard. With Audible Premium Plus you have 12 months to use your credit, but with Audible Standard if you don’t use your credit that month, it will disappear the following month. So use them! This is a great plan if you tend to overthink the use of your credits or hoard them and don’t want to be.
- You can’t share Audible Standard titles with your child’s Kindle (or about family sharing). With Audible Premium Plus titles, I can send any Audible title to my kids’ Kindles (they listen to them nonstop!) but with Audible Standard that’s not an option.
- You cannot return an audiobook received with a credit to Audible Standard. With Audible Premium Plus, you can return a book that you received with your credit and didn’t like and get your credit back. With Audible Standard, this is not an option.
- You cannot pause your Audible Standard subscription. This is an option for some plans, but not for Audible Standard.
More questions about Audible Standard? I’m happy to help – let me know in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer!
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