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Amazon buys Audible.com
What's particularly interesting is that Amazon appears to be engaged in an arms race with Apple over global domination of the digital media sphere. Amazon
iTunes users have long been able to download audiobooks from Audible and play them on their computers or iPods. We seriously doubt Amazon will kill Audible's partnership with Apple. There's just too much money on the table for that. But you never know.
[Thanks Cris Pearson!]
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Subscribe to commentsAdamJan 31st 2008 9:24AM
Are you sure about Amazon beating Apple to DRM free music? I thought you could buy DRM-less EMI songs on iTunes back in May.
Brad LinderJan 31st 2008 9:30AM
Right, looking over some old Download Squad stories Apple did add DRM-free music from EMI first, but when Amazon MP3 launched some months later it had already signed up more labels than Apple and had a larger library of DRM-free music.
kingkool68Jan 31st 2008 12:11PM
eMusic beat both of them to DRM Free tracks at it's inception. Amazon buying Audible seems like a perfect match. Best acquisition of '08.
JamesJan 31st 2008 4:17PM
So does this hint at possible DRM-free audiobooks? It's a real pain when shopping for MP3 players to have to look for "AA" support. WTF kind of format is that, anyway?
DannyFeb 1st 2008 12:35AM
I second the last comment. Let's have audiobooks in DRM-less formats! I need to listen to Richard Dawkins in my cellphone (not iPhone). :D