Triton
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I was just wondering. I was about to buy a few books on audible but noticed they were abridged and they do not sell unabridged formats. Why would anyone want an incomplete book?
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A lot of this is the simple cost of audiobooks, as described in this post and its answer. Also, older books that were released when there was only a limited audiobook audience may only be offered on Audible in abridged format because that's all that was available.Triton said:I was just wondering. I was about to buy a few books on audible but noticed they were abridged and they do not sell unabridged formats. Why would anyone want an incomplete book?
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Notice that a lot of these examples are older book releases. The same is true for earlier works by Michael Crichton (The Great Train Robbery and The Andromeda Strain are only available unabridged through Audible). Sometimes there is a non-Audible unabridged version of these books floating around. Even some quite popular and relatively recent titles were only offered in abridged format -- like Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit. I assume that's because Random House only released an abridged audiobook, and didn't want the unabridged readings (such as the Recorded Books unabridged Richard Davidson narration) offered in competition.canonelan2 said:What surprises me is that audible has some popular books where they only have the abridged versions.
I understand when books are ONLY released in abridged audio... but those 6 I mentioned ARE available unabridged as I was able to get all of them at the library. 5 on CD and 1 on tape.moriond said:Notice that a lot of these examples are older book releases. The same is true for earlier works by Michael Crichton (The Great Train Robbery and The Andromeda Strain are only available unabridged through Audible). Sometimes there is a non-Audible unabridged version of these books floating around. Even some quite popular and relatively recent titles were only offered in abridged format -- like Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit. I assume that's because Random House only released an abridged audiobook, and didn't want the unabridged readings (e.g. the Recorded Books unabridged reading) offered in competition.