Audiobooks might be launching a new price model for streaming audio books, but it's not new to the space. It's actually a product of Simply Audio Books, which has used a similar unlimited rental model for audio books on physical discs since it launched in 2003.
When launching its unlimited streaming process, it heeded the lessons of Netflix's cautionary tale -- in which the company split its product into separate streaming and disc packages and lost two-thirds of its value in three months -- and launched an entirely separate product off the bat.
"We didn't want to find ourselves in that position down the road," Simply Audio Books CEO Sanjay Singhal says.
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