Digital audiobook comes to your e-reader
You can purchase a
digital audiobook and listen to it on a compatible tablet or e-readers
So many books,
so little time. Looking to help you efficiently take on your 2018 reading
challenge, Amazon has just announced that Audible audiobook playback is
expanding to a wider variety of its Kindle e-readers.
The first generation Kindle Oasis, and the regular
old Kindle, can now access Amazon’s audiobook service direct from the devices
themselves, and playback content. This includes the Audible storefront, and is
facilitated by connecting up to Bluetoothenabled speakers or headphones, as
neither device has a headphone jack.
250,000 spoken tales
It’s an interesting reveal, considering only the June
2016 Kindle device previously has had any mention of Bluetooth functionality.
Audible support was a key unique selling point of the 2017 Kindle Oasis.
The Audible store is now the go-to stop for digital
audiobook content, offering 250,000 professional audiobooks for purchase.
Amazon has continued to invest in the area too, commissioning its own new
readings of stories – so you can see why it’d be keen to recoup the costs by
making access to the service more widely available.
Audio support for all
You may feel a bit miffed if you’ve bought the new
pricey Oasis specifically for this feature, only to find the older ones will
support it too with their next software update.
Still, for existing Kindle owners, you can’t knock a
top feature upgrade like this. Though neither device has previously offered
this kind of audio support, Amazon has confirmed that the Bluetooth
functionality was already present in each device – it’s just a matter of a software
update being needed to flip its switch to ‘on.
— Agencies
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