Audible and Amazon Household Sharing

IM

I am an Amazon Prime and Audible customer, and also have an Amazon Household set-up, to allow me to share Prime benefits and content with my wife and sons.

I am very frustrated that Audible does not allow me to share audiobooks with my sons through Amazon Household Sharing - http://audible.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4949/~/can-i-share-my-audiobooks-with-child-profiles%3F

I am not comfortable with the work-around I currently have to do, of downloading and signing in to my Audible account on my sons’ devices and giving them access to my full library – whilst I trust them not to make purchases, I don’t want them to see or inadvertently listen to my own purchases.

It’s a made-up scenario (honest ) but if I’d downloaded “The Haynes Manual to Fixing Your Broken Marriage” or “Overcoming Alcoholism for Dummies”, I wouldn't necessarily want the kids to know....

If I can purchase a children’s Kindle e-book and share it with my children, what is the rationale for me not being able to do likewise with audiobooks?

In fact, if they cannot listen to them, what is the point of Audible having children’s titles in its ranges – are there really that many adults listening to kids’ books?

Can anyone explain the policy to me – just having a one-line statement on your website (“Audible does not offer the ability to share content with a Child profile using Amazon Household Sharing”) really isn't good enough.

Do you think it's policy or technical limitations?

onlyroz

I think you can load audible books into iTunes although I've not tried it in a while because I prefer to use the audible app. From what I remember, from the audible library page there is an option to download the books. If you have iTunes open at the same time then I think they are automatically added to the books section of the library, and they can then be loaded individually onto a device.