Audible has launched a new unlimited subscription service for romance audiobooks, whereby readers can pay $6.95 as an add-on to an existing Audible subscription or pay a flat fee of $14.95.
Each book is rated either sweet, simmering, sizzling, hot damn or O-O-OMG, and readers can drill down through 41 micro-categories and 131 story and character tropes to find their next listen.

Audible’s unlimited romance audio-book subscription service


Audible says it is

debuting “Take Me to the Good Part,” a pioneering feature that uses data science and machine learning to allow listeners to go straight to the most sought out and memorable sections of a romance audiobook.

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Subscribers can enjoy intimate listening experiences with Blair Underwood, Dermot Mulroney, Jesse Metcalfe, and thousands of other alluring voices.

Audible claims to have

invented and commercialized the first digital audio player in 1997, and has since been at the forefront of the explosively growing audiobook download segment … In 2016, Audible members downloaded an average of more than 17 books over the course of the year. More than half of new Audible members are first-time audiobook buyers.]

Amazon bought Audible for $300 million in 2008.