oh, I din't catch that the Kiindle already supports Audible format...nice...
As to the comment about aidiobooks being available on CD....well, ummm...no-duh...hehehehe...
The same could be said for music content yet there is iTunes, Amazon, and about a zillion other sites to d/l music. And
I agree about the price of Audible...the two credits/mo are well not that great a deal anymore. We buy two annual accounts so we get a bit better deal over monthly, I think we get 4 extra books or something like that. Still it's a fair amount of money/book. Mostly because, who gets to define the value of a credit? Look at many books that cost 2+ credits...Terry Brooks Shanara series was an example. As are a couple more that simply cost more for no reason. It's not like the printed versions cost 2x more than other authors. When I first joined there were no, or extremely few, multi-credit individual books.
One thing I hope they DO CHANGE is the awful way the site works. Even eBay's category listings pages load faster, using large gallery images. And I liked when they had the pop-up player for sample chapters. Now it seems I cannot keep shopping while I listed to a sample...unless I open it in a new tab.
I still like Amazon buying Audible because I really do think it might tweak Apple and maybe even get us another good source for audiobook downloads.