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Originally Posted by odamizu
Interesting. Does iBooks make you sign in to your Audible/Amazon account before it lets you listen to a standard aax audiobook with DRM? Otherwise, what's the point of having DRM if you can just transfer the audiobook to any iDevice and listen to it?
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You transfer to iBook via iTunes. You have to be authorized in iTunes before it will copy the audiobook to your iDevice. If you are not authorized in iTunes, then it will not only not copy the audiobook, it will also delete any audiobooks that are currently on your iDevice. I ran into that issue when I replaced my iMac a month ago. I did a restore from backup to get everything on the new iMac, but that didn't authorize the new iMac. The authorization process is a bit strange. It won't let you authorize until you try to copy a new DRM audiobook into iTunes. I had to delete a book from iTunes and then add it again to get the new iMac authorized. It doesn't check the authorization on your iDevice, so once it's on, you can play.
Just as a note, iTunes won't load non Apple audiobooks into the iCloud. The only way to copy it onto your iDevice is via iTunes. That's not true for the Audible app. You can download from Audible or use books that you downloaded via iTunes with that app. You do have to log into your Audible account to use the Audible app.