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🎧 The audiobook listening platform that shares profits with independent bookshops 💗 Social Purpose Corp 🔄 Make the #AudiobookSwitch !

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AKA the audiobook company that supports indie bookshops vs. the Amazon-owned audiobook company that sends its CEO to space 🚀 Learn more and make the switch:
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Perennial mood:
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Looking for Black-owned bookstores to support? Here's a list ⤵️
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Good news, Stamped by @JasonReynolds83 and @DrIbram will be FREE for educators, librarians and influencers through the end of MARCH!
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By the time you're done reading this tweet, Amazon will have made another $1.7M. 💸 ⠀ We're in full support of today's National “Don’t Box Out Bookstores” event, because shopping indie means more local choices, tax dollars, and jobs. #BoxedOut #ShopIndie @ABAbook
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November is #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth , so here are Native American-owned bookstores in the USA to support. Each time we circulate this list we discover more bookstores to add to it, so here's hoping we find a few more. Reply with anyone we missed!⁠
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We put together a playlist of audiobooks that educate about racism, antiracism, white fragility, and more. #PullUp #BlackLivesMatter
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Blue Ivy Carter, just 8 years old, is the narrator of Hair Love by @MatthewACherry ! You love to see it, folks. Support your local bookstore with your audiobook purchase:
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To support independent bookstores, we have a deal for new members—when you start a membership with code SHOPBOOKSTORESNOW, you’ll get two audiobooks for the price of one and 100% of your payment will go to your bookstore. 📚 Help out at #ShopBookstoresNow
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#Unstoppable is out in audio today and brilliantly narrated by @MariaSharapova . Listen now on @librofm
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Open for a surprise
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Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood by @trixiemattel + @katya_zamo The @RuPaulsDragRace legends share the secrets of their feminine mystique in a satirical guide to beauty and homemaking:
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Buckle up, kids—it’s time for a thread about how Audible Exclusive audiobooks (aka Audible Originals) hurt bookstores and libraries.
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3/20-27 is the Trans Rights Readathon, started by @sim_kern !🏳️‍⚧️ In addition to donating to the Trans Health Legal Fund, we've created a playlist to help inspire your week of reads. Take 35% off these titles with code TRR35: #TransRightsReadathon
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These final months of the year are crucial for bookstores under normal circumstances, and even more so given the financial challenges of 2020. At a time when a *certain* online retailer is slashing prices, we are urging you to #ShopLocalBookstores . 📚
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All our support and love to the AAPI community. We're with you. #StopAsianHate
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To support independent bookstores, we have a deal for new members—when you start a membership with code SHOPBOOKSTORESNOW, you’ll get two audiobooks for the price of one and 100% of your payment will go to your bookstore. 📚 Help out at #ShopBookstoresNow
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This holiday season is crucial for bookstores keeping the doors open. ⁠ When you spend at least $15 USD at a bookstore anywhere in the world from 11/25-11/30, you can redeem one of these bestselling audiobooks for free!⁠ ⁠ Details: #ShopLocalBookstores
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Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay ! Browse and listen to audiobooks at —a new, permanent website update to highlight and uplift audiobooks by Indigenous authors. ♥️⁠
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Who's ready to make the switch? 🔄 ⁠ Here's a guide of our recommended independent alternatives for all aspects of your literary life—from reading to discovery to publishing and everything in between.
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100% of audiobook sales today will be shared equally between all Black-owned partner bookstores. You can: ➡️ Buy audiobooks ➡️ Gift audiobooks ➡️ Start a new membership ➡️ Gift a membership ⁠ #ShopBlackBookstores #JUNETEENTH2020
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✨ Celebrate #IndieBookstoreDay with ✨ When you spend at least $15 at your bookstore, you can pick one of the audiobooks below for free. It’s our way of saying thank you for shopping local.❣️ Details at !
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Audiobooks released today by black authors: The Vanishing Half by @britrbennett You Should See Me in a Crown by @byleahjohnson A Song Below Water by @BCMorrow A Song of Wraiths and Ruins by @rosiesrambles This Is What I Know About Art by @museummammy
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As of July 26, 2023, will officially be international! 🎉 Audiobook lovers from around the globe will be able to support their local bookshop with monthly memberships, credit bundles, à la carte purchases, and audiobook gifts. We couldn’t have done this
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Some app reviews we've particularly enjoyed recently
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UPDATED! Thanks to everyone who sent us more Black-owned bookstores to add to the list. Black-Owned Bookstores to Support Right Now (and Always):
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Are you a bookseller who was laid off due to #Covid_19 ? We’re growing and we need your help! We are hiring 10 booksellers who live in the USA to work with us remotely from April 13th–May 15th. Head to to apply!
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Thread of audiobooks by BIPOC authors coming this month and available to pre-order now ⬇️
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On a day when one big company offers deep discounts, we're asking audiobook listeners to support their local, independent bookstores by making the #AudiobookSwitch to . #PrimeDay #shopindie #audiobooks
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Celebrate our well-read friends tomorrow on #BookstoreDay !
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| ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| | Your love for | | audiobooks is | | overwhelming | | (our website). | | We're working | | on it now! | |_______| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || /   づ
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Listening to audiobooks is reading.
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We hit 20k followers on Instagram, so take 20% off any audiobook with code THANKYOU20. ⁠ ⁠ Maybe use that discount on an antiracist audiobook. You can also change your bookstore affiliation to support a store in the Twin Cities. Stay safe, read books, and support indies. 🧡 ⁠
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Information Doesn't Want to Be Free by @doctorow , with intro read by @neilhimself , is on #librofm @amandapalmer
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Here are the FREE audiobooks you can choose from when you spend $15 or more at your bookstore for #IndieBookstoreDay ! It’s our way of saying thank you for shopping local. Sign up for a reminder on 4/24 at 📚
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Inspired by @maskofbun and eager to get your hands on This Is How You Lose the Time War? Support your local indie by reading it on audio through !
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Bards Alley Bookshop
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"This is one of my personal favs that’s stayed on my staff picks, I adore it for its prose & main characters, two enemy agents in a war waged across time." -Marissa Consider ordering through @bookshop_org or @librofm while we work on getting more copies in the store!
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Indigenous-owned bookstores to shop today, and always ⤵️
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#IndieBookstoreDay OFFER LIVE ⚡ 1) Spend at least $15 USD or the local equivalent at a bookstore between now and April 26th⁠ 2) Submit your receipt by 9pm ET on April 26th + select your audiobook⁠ 3) We will email your audiobook on April 28th⁠! 🎉
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Happy #BookstoreRomanceDay ! ⁠The point of today is to celebrate romance fiction—its books, readers, and writers—and to strengthen the relationships between bookstores and the romance community. 🌹⁠ Explore our romance audiobook genre:
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Today is Independent Bookstore Day, and we want to say thank you for supporting your local, independent bookstore. You can collect your free audiobooks NOW! Don’t forget to share this deal with all your audiobook-loving friends 🎧📚❤️ #BookstoreDay
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Amanda Gorman ❤️
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✋🚧 This is an audiobook checkpoint. What are you currently listening to?
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Happy #NationalLibraryWeek ! Libraries are the great equalizer and foster community in so many ways beyond books. Let's show them some love this week! 🎨: @Jarrett_Lerner
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Bookstore Link, built by @librofm , launches today! Bookstore Link connects readers to their local, independent bookstores for online print book purchases. The best part? Bookstores keep 100% of every book sale. ​​ #BookstoreLink
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Check out this story from @CBSNews on @whatwouldDOOdo ’s support of independent bookstores, featuring founder Mark and Christine of partner store @wordbookstores :
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✨ FREE AUDIOBOOK ✨ Today only, in honor of #ZoraNealeHurston ’s birthday, get a free audiobook download of Their Eyes Were Watching God! Offer is valid to the first 10,000 people + must be redeemed today. 💫 @amistadbooks @harpercollins @HarperAudio
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Bookseller recommendations are one of our favorite things...what's better than a recommendation from an expert book lover? #IndiesFirst #SmallBusinessSaturday #shopindie
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It's a certain-specific-day at a company that shall not be named, so we're here to remind you about the benefits of switching to @librofm for audiobooks 😉 (1/x)
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Congratulations to the authors, narrators, and publishers of our bestselling audiobooks in non-fiction! #audiobooks #nonfiction #bestsellers
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Our #IndieBookstoreDay audiobook sale is LIVE! Get all these audiobooks for $5 or less, and explore hundreds of other listens on sale. Feat. @britrbennett , @RachRodgersEsq , @SuelynnTan , @SequoiaN , @Nnedi , @NifMuhammad , @libbabray , @waub , and more!
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In celebration of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth and to promote and support Indigenous businesses, we put together a directory of Indigenous-owned bookstores based in the USA and Canada. 📚
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✨ YOU DID IT ✨ In just 10 days, you’ve raised over $50,000 (and counting) for independent bookstores through #ShopBookstoresNow !
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rise to the top when you listen to an audiobook while reading 🤯
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@AnythingMaureen @BarackObama ID for Slide 1: Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021. Matrix by Lauren Groff How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott
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“The Scorpio Races is a favorite among most of our staff! We’re particularly fond of the voice actor who plays Sean Kendrick (swoon!).” Leah @bards_alley : #booksellerrecommended #audiobook
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@Nick_Offerman “First up is Leaving Isn’t The Hardest Thing by @laurenthehough , read by the author and a terrific up-and-comer called Cate Blanchett. I love this author’s muscular voice, and this Blanchett kid is also no slouch." — @Nick_Offerman
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Audiobook picks from Black creators within the bookstagram community! We encourage everyone to read not just antiracist books, but also, as @getnicced puts it, to “read books about explicitly black people—especially black kids—just being human." ⁠⠀
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is going international! 🌍 Starting this July, listeners from the UK, Australia, & New Zealand will be able to support independent bookstores through their audiobook purchases. And booksellers: we're ready (& excited!) to bring you
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They're a 10 but they say audiobooks don't count as reading
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Here's what listeners are reading this weekend 👇
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Rest in peace, #GeorgeFloyd . You should be here.
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True justice for George Floyd means renewing our conviction to create a world where police do not have the opportunity to use violence to target Black people.
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⏰ The countdown to #IndieBookstoreDay begins! ⏰ When you spend at least $15 USD at your bookstore on April 24th (in-store or virtually), you can get a free audiobook from us.⁠⁠ Sign up at and be first to find out which audiobooks we're giving away!
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Thanks for supporting independent bookstores and , @TheAuthorGuy 🙌📚🎧
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LIVE NOW 💥 When you shop at an independent bookstore and spend $15+, you can choose one of these bestselling audiobooks for FREE from us! It’s our way of saying thanks for shopping small during the holiday season. ⁠Details: . Have fun! #ThanksForGiving
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Our list of the Top 10 Bestselling Audiobooks of 2021 is here! While not quite over, 2021 has been a year just as tumultuous as the prior, but tinged with hope—and we were treated to some truly exquisite reads. Shop these audiobooks via indie bookstores:
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On this #SmallBusinessSaturday , make the choice to shop small and stay local. If you spend $15 at an indie bookstore, you can redeem a bestselling audiobook from us for free!
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9 Ways to Support Your Independent Bookstore During Coronavirus #Covid_19
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Celebrating #IndieBookstoreDay with us is as easy as 1-2-3. Which bookstore will you be shopping at? Details at 📚
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is officially a Social Purpose Corporation 🙌
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📢 ATTENTION 📢 Today is the last day of our #ShopBookstoresNow offer! Our initial goal was $50,000, and we're currently over $70,000...can we make it to $80,000 today? 🤔
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THIS WEEK: Download these audiobooks from @TantorAudio for FREE to further support @haymarketbooks ' efforts in making critical books widely available 📚🎧
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Haymarket Books
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We know that books can be dangerous to those in power, especially when they are in the hands of folks who are organizing to fight for liberation. That’s why we publish them. That's why they’re trying to ban them.
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“Highly recommend this important piece of current events journalism, which reads like a thriller novel.” #BooksellerRecommended by Gretchen @RoomofOnesOwn 📖 #CatchandKill #audiobook
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Support your local, independent bookstore today and every day! And today only, get five FREE audiobooks as our thanks for your support 📚❤️🎧 #IndieBookstoreDay #BookstoreDay
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Here's what you've accomplished so far with #ShopBookstoresNow . Let's try and get to $50,000! #COVID19
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Two illustrator greats—Lois Ehlert and Eric Carle—both passed away yesterday. Thank you for all the smiles, love, and laughter you brought, and will continue to bring, to children everywhere.
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UPDATED! Thank you all for sending us shops to add to our Queer-owned bookstore directory. This list grew from 33 to 73 bookstores 🤯 ⁠⁠ ⁠ Browse them all on the blog ⤵️
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Celebrate our well-read friends tomorrow on Independent Bookstore Day! #BookstoreDay
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We might be small, but we try to make it count. Thank you for believing in the mission. ❣️ #AudiobookMonth
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Thank you for spreading the word @BuzzFeedNews !
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Some ways to help your local bookstore during the coronavirus pandemic 📚 • See if you can buy online • Donate to the workers • Check if they offer curbside pickup • Sign up for @librofm
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App updates! 👀 Dark mode and car mode are among the new features rolling out over the next 7 days to iOS folks. ⁠ ⁠ Irwin, our iOS Lead Developer, has this to say: “I dedicate this release to my dog Kylo, whose barking is the cause of any bugs in this release.” 😂⁠
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Time for a thread of new audiobook releases 😈
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Warm toes, warmer hearts. We partnered with a range of artists to create 10 pairs of socks for book lovers! 🧦📚 ⁠⠀ Profits will go to @BincFoundation to support booksellers across the nation affected by COVID-19. ⁠ ⁠ Shop #SocksforBinc here:
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💡 Did you know that 28% of all indie bookstore revenue immediately recirculates in the local economy? Compare that to Am*zon, which recirculates only 4% locally.⁠ ⁠ #ShopLocalBookstores this holiday season and beyond. Learn more at 🧡 ⁠
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Here are our monthly audiobook bestseller lists, based on sales from our 1,400+ partner bookstores! 📚 Shop these listens through your local bookstore:
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📚 Thanks-for-Giving with 📚 When you spend at least $15 at an independent bookstore between 11/25-11/30, you’ll get to choose a bestselling audiobook as a thank you from us! Details at #ShopLocalBookstores
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When you purchase any audiobook, gift an audiobook, or start a new membership through on 6/19/20, 100% of your payment will be shared equally between all Black-owned partner bookstores. #JUNETEENTH2020 Details here:
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"Wallace—the main character—is not a good man when he’s first introduced. But the journey he goes on after his death is a transformative one, and leads him to ask an important question: what does it mean to be a good person?" — @tjklune @MacmillanAudio
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While the physical celebration for Independent #BookstoreDay is postponed until August 29th, you can celebrate the #VirtualBookstoreParty with us from April 19th–25th! ⁠⁠ ⁠ Learn more at ✨
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Our 2022 Audiobook Challenge is here! ⚡️ There are 24 challenges on this list, so you can pace yourself with two a month. ⁠ ⁠ Resources to get you started and a PDF you can download to print: ⁠ Are you in?
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👋 Hello to everyone new here from this thread! We're an independent audiobook platform that splits profits with local bookstores. Use code CHOOSEINDIE when you make the switch to and get a free audiobook with your first month!
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Dr Zack Twamley
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Hello Audible subscribers and audiobook listeners out there! Audiobooks [AB] are a really handy way to absorb a book without sitting down to read. I, for one, would be lost without them. But... there is an unfortunate truth about Audible which is virtually unknown. THREAD
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Thank you all for supporting Black-owned bookstores for #Juneteenth —$67,462 will be shared equally to our 42 partner bookstores. ⁠
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