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 [...]
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 [...]
May 29th, 2008
iofy is an audiobook publishing platform created by Audiofy Corporation. Ingram Digital - the digital and online wing of giant book distributor Ingram - have been working with Audiofy Corporation for over a year and have just announced the purchase of the iofy digital audiobook platform.
Here is a snippet from the full press release:
Ingram Digital, [...]
March 27th, 2008
Scott Sigler is about to launch yet another title into the world. INFECTED is released in printed form on April 1st, but the full PDF version is available for download right now.
The audio version of INFECTED, with Sigler reading the entire story broken into chapters, has already started reeling out, and will continue after the [...]
March 6th, 2008
Browse Inside this book
I just came across this while desperately trying not to start work this morning, thanks to Stumbleupon.
The complete text of Neil Gaiman’s bestselling novel American Gods is available to read online thanks to Harper Collins’ Browse Inside service. This service provides online access to a total of 500 books, enabling you [...]
