RBmedia acquires Audiobooks.com

[tubemonkey]

RBmedia acquires Audiobooks.com to enhance its digital media distribution platform and consumer reach

RBmedia also owns: christianaudio, HighBridge Audio, RB Digital, Recorded Books, Tantor Media, Wavesound (Australia), and WF Howes (UK).

Largest audiobook publisher in the world adds subscription service to serve millions of consumers wherever their mobile devices take them

Landover, MD, April 11, 2017 — RBmedia, a newly launched global leader in spoken audio content and digital media distribution technology, today announced its acquisition of Audiobooks.com, an innovator in the on-demand audiobooks sector. With Audiobooks.com, RBmedia not only produces bestselling spoken audio content, it also offers a technology platform that distributes more than 700,000 digital media titles. RBmedia has unparalleled consumer reach through Audiobooks.com, 10,000+ library partnerships, and consumer digital resellers.

A new global powerhouse takes center-stage in spoken audio and digital media distribution technology

RBmedia brings together numerous brands to deliver consumers engaging digital content – including audiobooks, educational courses, entertainment titles, and much more

Landover, MD, April 11, 2017 — Today marks the launch of RBmedia, a global leader in spoken audio content and digital media distribution technology. As both a producer and distributor of bestselling works, RBmedia counts more than 700,000 digital content titles in its portfolio, including everything from audiobooks to eMagazines, courses, comics, games, and many others.

RBmedia Properties

• Audiobooks.com
  
• christianaudio
  
• HighBridge Audio
  
• RB Digital (OneClickdigital)
  
• Recorded Books
  
• Tantor Media
  
• Wavesound (Australia)
  
• WF Howes (UK)

[pwalker8]

I wonder what that means. I can't imagine them pulling their titles from audible. Do you buy books from audiobooks.com, or is it purely a streaming service where you have to use their proprietary app?

[AnemicOak]

Not a fan of audiobooks.com ever since I emailed CS and was told that if they stop selling a book it would disappear from your library of purchased titles as well. They may have changed this behavior (?), but that's how it was at the time.

Originally Posted by pwalker8

I wonder what that means. I can't imagine them pulling their titles from audible. Do you buy books from audiobooks.com, or is it purely a streaming service where you have to use their proprietary app?

They use a credit system to buy books similar to other sites. For listening they pretty much rely on you using their website or downloading to one of their apps. Using the Android app to download you get regular MP3's, but that's the only way I know of to get actual files you can use elsewhere. I doubt RB/Tantor titles will disappear from Audible, Downpour, etc.