The Chairmans Bao is becoming a paid service

For those like me who use this site, here’s what they wrote in their newsletter:

TCB Notice:

After operating as a free service for the past 16 months, TCB will switch to a subscription model in the coming weeks for both individuals and institutions. Our developers are currently working hard to ensure that the switch occurs as smoothly as possible and we are finalising what we deem to be a fair pricing model which will be communicated in due course. Subscribers will receive unlimited access to TCB across all platforms.

We realise that this won’t be music to the ears of most of our users, however it is something that we have been open about since launch. We will continue to improve the quality and quantity of the materials we produce and we have lots of exciting plans in the pipeline. If anybody has any questions, don’t hesitate to email us at [email protected] and we will be in touch once we finalise a date for the switch.

Thank you for your continued support and cooperation - Team TCB.

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Wow… Thanks for letting us know, Drew. But, that is very unfortunate. I have been using that as my sole source of reading practice lately as I really appreciate the HSK graded reading. It isn’t that I would be unwilling to pay, but if I were to pay for their service I might want to have them have different playback speeds for the audio… or at least have me download the audio and slow it down myself…

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