Audible: price, subscription, catalog… Everything you need to know about Amazon’s audio book service

Audio books are very practical when you spend long hours in the car, or when you travel a lot and would like to see your pile of books to read go down despite everything. This is where services like Audible, owned by Amazon, come in to allow us to listen, at any time, to stories that transport us.

Price, subscription details, catalog, features… The Digitals takes a look at everything you need to know about the Audible audiobook platform.

Audible in brief

Audible is a digital service for books and other audio content belonging to the Amazon group since 2008. The service allows its users to listen to Audible Originals audiobooks, creations and podcasts. To benefit from the Audible catalog, it is possible to purchase titles individually or subscribe.

It is thanks to the Audible application, available on iOS, Android and Windows, that users can listen to this content at any time on their smartphone, as well as on a tablet, computer or via Amazon Echo and Sonos speakers.

Note that with Audible, your audiobooks automatically sync across all your devices. An obvious fact in 2025, but always pleasant to remember.

What does the Audible catalog contain?

On Audible, you will find a wide selection of audiobooks, more than 500,000 titles in reality, including more than 15,000 in French. Biographies, romance, science fiction, detective novels, books on personal development… There is something for everyone on Audible.

The service also offers a vast selection of podcasts, labeled Audible Original or not. This label also includes fiction exclusive to Audible.

Audible offers a one-month trial to its new subscribers then sets the price of its subscription at 9.95 euros per month.

This monthly subscription, which can be canceled without charge or paused at any time, provides access to one audio credit per month that users can exchange for the audiobook of their choice. The latter then belongs to them forever, even if they cancel their subscription.

If the audio credit is not used during the month, it is automatically carried over to the following month but it is only possible to accumulate 6 at a time, and you must use them before canceling your subscription, otherwise they expire upon cancellation.

Audible being an Amazon company, you need an Amazon account to register for the site, or create one. Once your account is created, you can take advantage of the 30-day free trial offer with a free audiobook.

The Audible subscription allows unlimited listening to its catalog of audio books, original creations, podcasts, as well as immersive 3D audio titles. It also allows you to discover Audible Original creations and titles only available on Audible, and to benefit from exclusive offers and discounts.

Note that Amazon Prime subscribers are invited to try Audible for free for 60 days instead of 30.

What features does Audible offer?

On Audible, you can listen to your audio content however you want. The application allows you to download your content to listen to it offline, choose your reading speed, use Car Mode with its simplified display, automatically synchronize your listening on up to 10 different devices or even put your reading on standby using a timer.

Audible also allows its users to organize their library with Collections, or to write a note at a specific point during their listening and save a sound sample of up to 2 minutes with the Clip function.

It is also possible to go back or advance the reading by 30 seconds when you lose track, and even modify the duration of this parameter in the application settings.

Finally, Audible is fully compatible with VoiceOver (iOS) and TalkBack (Android) software for visually impaired and blind users.

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