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They are in financial difficulties, without many options, and they each take a very different approach to navigating their way through family and love. This is one of Austen’s funniest, most enjoyable novels, telling the story of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Frederick Douglass tells the story of his life, including his experiences in slavery and his escape to the north. Published in 1845, this one of the most important memoirs in American literature. When a consumer buys one of my books on Audible, my indie publisher and I get some change - and that's great.īut my reader, who now has a direct relationship with me, the author, gets a bag of digital candy mixed with arsenic.Īs an author it is embarrassing that someone would purchase my book knowing that instead of enjoying the work freely, they will almost certainly soon have a technical experience of frustration, anger and disappointment - an experience that has nothing to do with me, or the book.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass Making a deal with Audible to get their titles into the audio book game was a necessary step to expand their catalog into a digital goods market that an indie can't afford not to be in nowadays. My main print publisher is an indie, women-run small business. In addition to being a tech journalist, blogger and podcaster, I'm still an author and anthology editor with dozens of books in print in many languages - the old fashioned way to be a writer. I'm the 'little guy' whose work is traded off of in this ridiculous charade wherein companies use dated, anti-consumer and anti-artist racketeering-style business tactics instead of evolving their business models.

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Over the years a number of software makers have come along to remove the Audible DRM encoding to make audio book files user-friendly.Īudible has always been swift to threaten software makers, devs and bloggers with lawsuits for promoting - or even discussing - the ability to remove Audible's DRM.Īs one commenter put it on Reddit in a thread about trying to listen to their Audible book outside the DRM, 'It's easier to torrent and steal the book than to play it on my car stereo.'Īudible's DRM poisons my relationship with my readers and fans. You'll also find out quickly just how aggressive and litigious Audible is to protect its DRM. Search Google, look at Reddit and other forums and sites, and you'll find dedicated readers and listeners who simply want to put the books they purchased from Audible on their MP3 player. The people who listen to audio books are are fans of books. The people who listen to audio books are also people who are blind or have limited sight, are dyslexic, are ADHD, are people who have limited mobility - and access on multiple devices means so much more than anyone will ever know.

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One person on the call casually commented, 'We're really kind of hoping some kid doesn't hack it.'Įxcept it's not 'some kid' who wants to listen to The Omnivore's Dilemma on the way to work, at their desk, on the plane, when someone else is on the computer and they have to multitask, or when their hands are full with the baby. I was told it was important to keep because they needed to protect against file sharing.

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