AudiobookStories is a small, independently run site about audiobooks and audiobook subscriptions. It exists to answer the questions people actually type into a search box — what happens to your books when you cancel, whether a plan is worth it for the way you listen, and what to listen to next — and to answer them properly rather than in the first two sentences of a page that keeps going.
What this site covers
Everything here falls into one of four areas:
- Audible and audiobook subscriptions — how the plans differ, what credits actually buy, what happens to your library when you cancel, and how family sharing works.
- Audiobook recommendations — by genre, by mood, by length, and by the situation you will be listening in, which matters more than most recommendation lists admit.
- Getting more out of listening — playback speed, Whispersync, narrators, and the practical things that make the difference between finishing a book and abandoning it at hour three.
- Free tools — small calculators and quizzes that answer a question faster than an article can. They are at audiobookstories.com/tools, they are free, they ask for nothing, and they can be embedded on any other site.
There are more than 400 articles here, and the older ones are revisited rather than left to go stale. Every article shows the date it was last updated at the top, so you can see for yourself how current it is.
How recommendations are made here
This is worth being direct about, because it is the thing that separates a site worth reading from one that is not.
- No invented prices. You will not find a dollar figure for an Audible plan anywhere on this site. Amazon changes them without notice and a stale number is worse than no number — it makes a decision for you using information that is wrong. Cost is described in relative terms, and the live figure is always one click away on the official page.
- Recommendations can be negative. The plan quiz will tell you not to subscribe when that is the honest answer, and articles say who a book or a plan is wrong for as well as who it suits. A site that recommends everything recommends nothing.
- Corrections are made, not buried. If something here is wrong, tell me and it gets fixed. The updated date at the top of the article changes when it does.
- No sponsored placements. No publisher, narrator or retailer has ever paid for a position in a list on this site, and none ever will. The ranking is the ranking.
How the site is paid for
AudiobookStories is a member of the Amazon Associates programme and other affiliate programmes. When you follow a link from this site to Audible or Amazon and go on to sign up or buy something, this site may earn a commission. It never costs you anything extra, and the price you pay is the same as it would be if you had gone there directly.
That arrangement pays for the hosting, the time and the tools. It does not decide what gets recommended: the affiliate link is the same link whether a book is placed first or fifth, so there is nothing to gain from ranking dishonestly and a great deal to lose. The full disclosure is on the disclaimer page.
Who runs it
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My name is Kazi Al Imran. I started AudiobookStories in July 2023, and I write and edit everything on it.
I am a book lover first and foremost, and most of my reading happens through audiobooks — while commuting, walking, and doing the ordinary things that fill a day. That is genuinely where this site came from. I kept running into the same questions when I was working out how audiobook subscriptions fit together, and the answers online were either three sentences long or written by someone who had clearly never used the service. So I started writing down what I had worked out.
I am not a librarian, a publisher or an industry insider, and I would rather say so than imply otherwise. What I am is someone who listens to a lot of audiobooks, has used these subscriptions for years, and cares about being accurate. Where a fact can be checked, it is checked. Where something is uncertain, the article says so rather than picking a number and stating it confidently.
I read every message that comes in through the contact page, and corrections and suggestions are genuinely welcome — several of the tools on this site exist because a reader asked for them.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, a book you think deserves a mention, or a tool you wish existed — all welcome at [email protected], or through the contact page.