August 4th, 2008
eMusic this week announced their online music catalogue has just reached 4 million tracks!
Now affiliated with 40,000 record labels, and recently having shifted its service into a more web 2.0 social network environment, it seems eMusic is going from strength to strength. David Pakman, eMusic President and CEO said:
eMusic is redefining digital music retail for [...]
July 16th, 2008
Borders, the international book retailer, has begun selling audiobooks as downloads from their online store.
15,000 titles are planned to be available for download in mp3 - which means DRM-free, of course - and can be played on pretty much any digital music device. In addition, the audiobooks are available in WMA format - which looks [...]
July 11th, 2008
As much as publishers panic at the thought of losing control of their products once out there on the mighty interweb, so we are seeing more companies offering professional audiobook products as DRM-free downloads.
PublishersWeekly is reporting that Simply Audiobooks is about to offer more than 5000 DRM-free products from Random House. This means Simply Audiobooks [...]
July 7th, 2008
Yes, I’m on the scrounge again… TableRappers Persistent Spirit is up for votes in the 2008 European Podcast Awards. So if you have a minute, please click this banner or link and leave your vote. And do let me know so I can personally thank you!
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June 17th, 2008
Commercial Audiobook distribution is flawed. At one time they were only available on cassette tape (remember those?), now it is CD plus some online distribution using DRM (Digital Rights Management) to prevent piracy. Each of these systems is flawed because they cross the boundaries between books and music.
Readers read books (I know, it’s obvious, but [...]