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Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it

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Re: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it

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Post by freeAgent »

xavdid wrote: post #119
freeAgent wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can only assume that Audible’s weak DRM will be replaced as soon as they deem the audiobook market sufficiently captured.

It's certainly possible, but it seems pretty captured already. I'm not sure how much of a blip it is for them. Definitely a good reason to back up any audible purchases sooner rather than later (as as soon as you buy any future ones!)

Yeah, the first thing I do with every single Audible purchase I make is strip the DRM. In fact, the Audible app is so bad that I don't even use it. I use BookPlayer (iOS) instead. It's much better.

Re: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it

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Post by cpill »

Qwertious wrote: post #123
xavdid wrote: post #107

A slight quibble: > They require mandatory DRM for every book sold, locking those books forever to Amazon's monopoly platform. If you break up with Amazon, you have to throw away your entire audiobook library. While it's true that your purchases are tied to your Amazon account, they are not tied to your audible subscription (if you have one). That's a nice touch. Even better, the DRM is trivially easy to remove. Audi…

The strength of the DRM isn't really relevant;_DRM is primarily intended as 1) a legal weapon under the DMCA, and 2) an inconvenience to remove.

your also forgetting that it gives publishers some reassurance that their books are not going to be easily pirated, which gives them confidence to actually make digital versions of their catalogue. As with most things involving humans, there is a political angle
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