Amazon buys Audible.com
Amazon sold in earnest. He launched Kindle, launched an mp3 music store, agreed with all major labels, and together with Pepsi are going to distribute goods worth $ 1 billion, a year ago they launched Unbox video service for TiVo and now buys Audible.com - the largest audio book service, offering more than 80 thousand items. The transaction price is about $ 300 million.
Since 2003, Audible.com has been in close partnership with Apple and iTunes, which offers 20,000 audio books from the Audible catalog. Apple licensed their FairPlay DRM to them, if I’m not mistaken, they were the only ones who received such an honor.
After the announcement of the purchase of Audible.com by Amazonn, many questions immediately appeared: would Amazon refuse Audible DRM in favor of mp3? Will Audible audio books be sold on iTunes? will Amazon launch its own audio player?
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The purchase process is expected to be completed by the end of Q2'08.
Since 2003, Audible.com has been in close partnership with Apple and iTunes, which offers 20,000 audio books from the Audible catalog. Apple licensed their FairPlay DRM to them, if I’m not mistaken, they were the only ones who received such an honor.
After the announcement of the purchase of Audible.com by Amazonn, many questions immediately appeared: would Amazon refuse Audible DRM in favor of mp3? Will Audible audio books be sold on iTunes? will Amazon launch its own audio player?
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The purchase process is expected to be completed by the end of Q2'08.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/288574/
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