Awesome things about libro that I like
- No DRM. You can download the books as you please and store them outside the app!
- Credits don’t expire, and can be gifted.
- You can support your local bookstore if they are on the app.
- There’s also occasional free audiobooks that the libro.fm drops. For Juneteenth there was a few that they gave out for free.
Do you know if it is a US-only/prioritizing service or not? I’m currently looking for an e-book/audiobook service which has a decent library outside of US (or any major EU countries) and most of the options are noticebly lacking in that.
What country if you don’t mind me asking? I know libro is trying to expand outside the US, but unsure what their coverage is. I do know some ebook/audiobook services in different countries around the world
Not at all! I am in Serbia currently.
The tricky bit is - I am not Serbian myself and would prefer to read mostly in English (it would be great if the service had books/audiobooks in other languages, too, but English is my primary focus for now).
Bookmate.com might be your best bet, alongside potentially buying a digital library card from places that allow out of state card purchases. I know Fairfax Virginia allows it for a yearly fee.
Huh, I didn’t know that there is an option to purchase a digital library card, will be looking into that and bookmate. Thanks!
Where can I look to see what local bookstores are available?
Head over https://libro.fm/indies and enter your location for the closet bookstore to you. If there isn’t one or if you don’t see one you like, there’s also online stores as well. I like how they have tags like, API owned, LGBT owned, etc etc
@gabe This makes me want to create my own online bookstore, kind of! I’m the worst when it comes to finding out about new titles though so my store would always be out of date!
I have a bunch of places if you ever need any info on keeping up to date on new titles haha
Also I know you were probably joking, but there is an extremely high demand for large print and accessible books. Most of them tend to be consolidated on amazon right now. Having a dedicated online indie bookselling storefront (with accessible navigation) for large print and accessible book tools would probably become extremely profitable very quickly, especially from people trying to avoid amazon.
@gabe I’d love that! Can you email me the giant list of resources? If I can do it, I’d rather not do any shipping, at all, myself, or inventory, like, I’d want it to be a very very passive thing! My literary agent is already side eyeing me because I’m playing in the Fedi rather than meeting my deadlines. LMAO! I wanted to possibly have a bookshop store for print books but then a Libro FM store that highlighted books with Disabled characters across multiple genres. I just launched a new website, and am now seriously thinking about large print titles and otherwise, but I’m sure Bookshop has large print titles. We can download digital Braille files from a number of our Disabled libraries, but still, now you got me thinking so can you email me? https://robertkingett.com/contact/
Nice, there’s one! Will have to use it :)
