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Old 01-19-2012, 03:49 PM   #1
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Penguin extends library e-book restrictions to downloadable audiobooks
"We previously mentioned Penguin’s decision to stop making new e-book titles available to libraries in the USA and the UK. The Digital Shift reports that decision extends to downloadable digital audiobooks as well. A message from Overdrive yesterday explains this applies to audiobook titles released after 11/14/2011. In an apparently unrelated move, Amazon-owned BrillianceAudio will also stop offering downloadable audiobook titles."

http://www.teleread.com/audiobooks/p...books/#comment
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"We previously mentioned Penguin’s decision to stop making new e-book titles available to libraries in the USA and the UK. The Digital Shift reports that decision extends to downloadable digital audiobooks as well. A message from Overdrive yesterday explains this applies to audiobook titles released after 11/14/2011. In an apparently unrelated move, Amazon-owned BrillianceAudio will also stop offering downloadable audiobook titles."

http://www.teleread.com/audiobooks/p...books/#comment
I live in New York, so I drive in gridlock all the time. I can't live without my downloaded audiobooks.
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Old 01-19-2012, 07:29 PM   #3
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does this mean I can't get Penguin audiobooks through Audible.com anymore?

Guess I'm going to stop buying anything by Penguin. pity, they publish a few of my favorite authors.
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I think Audible will still carry the titles since we are "buying" the book. The only Penguin books I'll read from now on WILL be pirated copies.
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I think Penguin is trying to encourage piracy.
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Old 01-20-2012, 10:55 AM   #6
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I think Audible will still carry the titles since we are "buying" the book. The only Penguin books I'll read from now on WILL be pirated copies.
You could always read something else, you know. You don't HAVE to pirate books.
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You could always read something else, you know. You don't HAVE to pirate books.
Most of my reading is from the library, Baen or other free sources. However Penguin publishes a few of my favorite authors, the ones that I will buy on release day, like John Sandford, the late Robert B Parker and Sue Grafton. In fact, I would normally buy 2 copies. One to read and then I would buy the Audible version. (Yes, I'm weird. I only listen to a book after I've read it.)

I actually discovered all my favorites in the library.

I guess I should thank Penguin for saving me a couple hundred bucks a year.
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does this mean I can't get Penguin audiobooks through Audible.com anymore?

Guess I'm going to stop buying anything by Penguin. pity, they publish a few of my favorite authors.
This is not about Audible. It's about public libraries.
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