I even created my own audiobook store so I'd have somewhere to sell my books. I've given up hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost income by refusing to allow my audiobooks to be sold with DRM. I saw this writing on the wall more than a decade ago.
It's a signature Big Tech move, the kind of thing that monopolies use to shore up their dominance for the long term. Once you control 90% of a market, you are more likely to lose users than gain them, and so anything you can do to lock those users in to your platform helps you more than it hurts. It's not surprising that Amazon would choose to use an illegitimate, anticompetitive technology to lock its customers (and suppliers) in. Ten years later, Audible controls more than 90% of the audiobook market, making it the last bastion of DRM in audiobooks - competitors like Downpour and Libro.fm sell all the same books without DRM, and the audiobooks you get at your local library have been DRM-free for years. Audible never made good on that promise, and stonewalled press queries and industry requests about when, exactly, this fairtrade version of their industry-dominating audiobook store would finally emerge.
#Battle cry of freedom audiobook free download software
A decade ago, when Amazon acquired Audible, the two companies promised that they'd phase out their DRM, which locked listeners into using their proprietary software and devices to enjoy the books they purchased.
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