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Originally Posted by brecklundin
Next Amazon is going to want to leverage that Audible content fast, as in yesterday kinda fast.
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You might want to check out Amazon.com some time. Look up a book that has a downloadable edition at Audible.com. You'll see Amazon is
already leveraging Audible. Like, yesterday, and before.
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Originally Posted by brecklundin
This is Amazon sells MP3 & video content in direct competition with Apple and that makes it look to me as if it could be a very complicated arrangement.
But if Apple drops Audible content then iWhateverDevice users are not going to be at all pleased. If Apple keeps offering Audible content then Apple is paying Amazon to compete with them for customer dollars.
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There's a critical difference between music and audiobooks. With music, Amazon and Apple are competing to sell other people's content. When you buy a track from Amazon, Apple gets nothing, and vice versa.
But Apple's iTunes Store is mostly reselling Audible's content (the Harry Potter books are the only major exception). And the iTunes Store is almost certainly the biggest "customer" for Audible: When Apple sells an audiobook, Audible still gets a cut. The same will be true for Amazon.com.
Sure, the Kindle adds some complexity to the equations, but in the end, more audiobooks going onto more iPods translates directly into more money for Amazon. Why would they cut off their biggest reseller? That would make zero business sense.