Slate is selling audiobooks that you can listen to through your podcast app
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Slate is now selling audiobooks that can be listened to in the podcasting app of listeners’ choice.
Slate is getting into the audiobooks business. The online magazine and podcast subscription seller is launching its own audiobook store today in partnership with multiple publishing companies. The store will list and sell popular titles but with the added benefit of making the audio accessible through listeners’ preferred podcast app instead of a separate audiobook-only platform. This is likely its biggest sell for listeners, although Slate will compete on price, too. Listeners also will buy these books a la carte, meaning they don’t have to subscribe to an ongoing membership as they may through Audible, the biggest name in audiobooks.
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Here’s an edited transcript of this week’s chat.
Danny Lavery: ’”Now I have no monsters left, and ‘tis less labour for Hercules to fulfil my orders than for me to order; with joy he welcomes my commands.” I’ve tried to confine myself to one Seneca quote a year, but I’m glad I saved it for today, my last-ever live chat as Dear Prudence. I won’t get sentimental until we’re closer to the end, but I’ve been very fortunate to be able to spend part of my Mondays trying to sort out problems with your help, careful readers. Once more, and for once and all: Let’s chat.
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Here’s an edited transcript of this week’s chat.
Danny Lavery: Afternoon, everyone. This is my penultimate live chat, so there’s just today and next Monday to get this Prudence to answer a question in real time get it while the going’s good. Let’s chat!
Q. Angry roommate: I took over an apartment lease after I broke up with my boyfriend. It was a friend of a friend of a friend. “Kim” and I don’t have much in common, but we are both quiet and clean, so it is better than most. On Friday, Kim told me she was “going out” and didn’t have any luggage. She wasn’t home by Saturday afternoon, so I started to get concerned. I called and texted her but no response. I didn’t want to call the police, but during college, several young women went missing and were later found dead. One lived on my floor. The first 48 hours are the most critical in missing people cases. I went online and went through Kim’s social media and found her parents and older sister. I was