![]() If you buy a book, you can listen to it even after you cancel your subscription. Audible on the other hand, gives you ownership of the book. they license the books for a specific time. These are audio-books created exclusively for Audible by authors and not available elsewhere.Īlso, Scribd follows more of the Netflix approach, i.e. To add to this, Audible has a program called Audible Originals. This means that as a Scribd user, you might find that there are titles not available as audio-books that you could have gotten access to on Audible. While this is not a conclusive study, there are good chances that Scribd simply does not have that kind of depth, at least with regards to audiobooks. That said, to get a rough estimate of books availability, I searched 30 books I owned on Audible on Scribd and turns out, Scribd was short on 15 audiobooks and 13 ebooks. ![]() ![]() Scribd doesn’t exactly reveal the number of books they have. We’re talking about in excess of 100,000 audiobooks that you can get your hands on. Content Availability #Īudible has a very deep catalog of audio-books. But does this mean that Scribd gives you more bang for the buck all the time? Not necessarily. In short, Scribd gives you access to a huge catalog of eBooks, audio-books, magazines, and other media. However, considering that Scribd has 600 times the quantity of items that Audible has, we’re fairly certain it has the edge in terms of regular eBooks. Not all of these are books–many are PDFs, research papers, and other material you might not be inclined to read. Scribd hosts…wait for it…60 million documents. When it comes to non-audio content, though, Scribd has a clear edge. You get access to audiobooks, and that’s about it. Audible (as the name suggests) is an audiobook service. Scribd trumps Audible in terms of the sheer diversity of media types on offer. So which one’s it going to be, Audible or Scribd? Let’s find out.
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