Comments on: Audible to give away 12 million audiobooks to settle class action lawsuit https://teleread.org/2019/04/07/audible-to-give-away-12-million-audiobooks-to-settle-class-action-lawsuit/ Blog on ebooks, publishing, libraries, tech, and related topics Sun, 14 Apr 2019 17:38:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Michelle Allen https://teleread.org/2019/04/07/audible-to-give-away-12-million-audiobooks-to-settle-class-action-lawsuit/#comment-112505 Sun, 14 Apr 2019 17:38:57 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167684#comment-112505 This effing company!!!!!! I tried the free trial but didn’t find anything I liked. I canceled. I 100% know I did because I remember specifically that they required I answer questions about why I was canceling. I just wanted to cancel, not fill out marketing data. I was then billed for another YEAR 2x a month!!!!! $30/month!! And adding insult to injury I didn’t get to keep any of the credits. They offered to refund some credits and said they wouldn’t expire and I could keep them after canceling the membership. But alas that too was a lie as they disappeared. So Ffffffcuk this company

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]]> By: Nicole R. Locker https://teleread.org/2019/04/07/audible-to-give-away-12-million-audiobooks-to-settle-class-action-lawsuit/#comment-111822 Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:38:18 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167684#comment-111822 Hmmm. Thousands of free audiobooks being given out, but I hope the authors and narrators are getting their royalties from this snafu. Amazon seems untouchable as always, and always at the expense of the people making them money in the first place who can’t do anything about it.

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]]> By: Cary https://teleread.org/2019/04/07/audible-to-give-away-12-million-audiobooks-to-settle-class-action-lawsuit/#comment-111638 Tue, 09 Apr 2019 17:56:17 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167684#comment-111638 Time to find another audio books company

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]]> By: Michael W. Perry, medical writer https://teleread.org/2019/04/07/audible-to-give-away-12-million-audiobooks-to-settle-class-action-lawsuit/#comment-111413 Mon, 08 Apr 2019 13:24:32 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=167684#comment-111413 I didn’t see mention of a key factor. What are Audible customers required to do to get their settlement? Amazon has the database savvy to determine on its own who was cheated and for most customers it still has their contact information. It could simply send them a coupon for those free audiobooks.

I ask, because that’s not how these class-action settlements often work. The lawyers who sued are invariably well rewarded. They bill the losing company for their fees with the greatest of ease. They have software that does the tallying. But the agreement may establish tiresome burdens for those who’re supposed to be the victims in the dispute. They may have to do so much to collect, that collecting isn’t worth their time.

I saw that long ago when a lawsuit was filed against Apple for claiming that low-end models of the then current Mac models would run fine when the then-new OS X was released. The charges were correct. I had two of them, a desktop and a laptop. Both became slugs under OS X. Did I collect? Nope, not a penny.

Lawyers allegedly representing me had worked out a sweetheart deal with Apple’s lawyers. Collecting their fees, almost certainly $300 an hour or more, was easy. To collect my pittance, a mere $10 per machine, was so burdened with paperwork and requirements, that I suspected I’d be earning about $5 an hour for my labors. It not only wasn’t worth it, I feel almost certain that Apple’s lawyers and those supposedly looking out for me must have smirked at what they’d come up with.

That’s the key question in this settlement. The lawyers who sued will undoubtedly make out like bandits. The real issue is what sort of burdens are imposed on those who were the alleged victims of Amazon’s misbehavior.

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