Customize Your Morning Commute News
from the custom-drive-time dept
The San Francisco Chronicle has just announced an interesting new offering. They're going to let people download and burn to CD custom news each morning that they can listen to on their commute to work. At first I wasn't sure this was such a good idea, but the more I thought about it, the better it sounded. Being able to customize exactly what sorts of news you want to listen to (and for how long) helps get past the lack of choice on the radio each morning. The big question, though, is how many people will want to go through the hurdle each morning of downloading and burning the CD.
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audible
Note: Audible just doubled their subscription prices for many long-time customers, and judging by the fact that the most often-viewed item in their help site is now "how do I cancel my Audible account", I am likely NOT the only one who cancelled his account in response.
Hey, this might even be a covert submission to Techdirt.....
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