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Someone might be interested in knowing what became of Tantor Media.
It's still around. I got curious, because I hadn't gotten any emails of promotions on their downloads recently. So, I did some investigation. It seems that they have sharply curtailed their downloadable selection. That's probably the reason that we haven't seen any sales from them recently on downloads--as far as I can tell, from spot-checking, they hardly have any! It seems that about all that they are interested in now are CD's--regular and MP3's. Their typical choices of media for a book are 1) "Audio CD," 2) "MP3 CD," and 3) "Buy from Audible".
I have a bunch of Tantor Media CD's that I bought in the past, but now I'm trying to buy as few CD's of audiobooks, as I can. Why? Two main reasons: one, they take up space. One of the reasons that I'm buying ebooks and other digital books (e.g., as used in Bible software) is so that I can try to get rid of physical copies of books, which take up so much space! If you buy (in the case of non-MP3 CD's, especially), an audiobook in CD form, it takes up about as much space as the physical book, when you consider the protective clamshell (or whatever you call it) to store them in, and to protect them! The other reason comes from the fact that I don't use a CD-changer, just my laptop right here, to listen to the CD's. And it is a pain in the rump having to change CD's again and again (of course, it's worse when they are regular CD's and not MP3's).
I frankly don't understand why Tantor would want to shift from downloadable products to physical products. It seems like not just the future, but the present, is about downloadable audiobooks.
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