Hi, I just dug out the thread on the content that's being removed
from audible, and you're right, stephen king's not in there. It's ken
follett, David Baldacci, and Michael Conoly. I've seen some stuff
about Stephen King in the last couple of weeks, but since it's not on
that particular thread, I'm not sure where it was. Anyways, my bad.
I tried to forward the thread, but it's 20 kb, and the list says it's
being held because it's too big. If it doesn't go through in a few
hours, I'll abridge my comments as much as I can and try to resend so
you can have the info.
Best,
Erik
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On 20-May-08, at 8:30 AM, Holly Anderson wrote:
Hi. if you are talking about the gingerbread girl by stephen king,
I got that on audible. That is his newest, and dumakey is also on
audible.
Holly
On May 20, 2008, at 11:38 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi Josh,
You'd probably like http://www.emusic.com. Their back catalog is
week sauce because they only started last august, but they are
getting good at adding new releases and they are pushing between 2
and 300 new editions per month. Book credits cost about $10 each
on a monthly plan. two books for $19.98 or some such.
Emusic has a download manager that grabs all the files of any given
book. This app works on both mac and windows, although the windows
edition has a huge pile of features I never use, lol.
The audio quality is 64 kbps, as opposed to the normal 32 kbps of
audible, and the files are non drm mp3. Several publishers
including randomhouse are moving away from audible and using non-
drm-distrobution now. I had a link to a random house digital
download senter but I lost it in an email disaster. I'll see if I
can get it back for you, but it would sertainly compete with
audible for back catalog selection. The audiopublishers
association list was hopping last week because it turns out the
publisher that carries michael conoly and the brand new stephen
king book canned audible last year, so now those new releases are
both up on emusic and not on audible.
Podiobooks is doing a fantastic job filling in the gaps between
rollovers in my emusic subscription. I just read daughter of the
sun, which was fine but nothing to be praised to the skys, and now
I'm working on the seventh sun trilogy. I always wanted to read
these, but I wanted to wait til the whole trilogy was finished so I
could polish them off one after the other. It's been great so far.
I've been reading the Lois M Bujold books from blackstone on
Emusic, and I've been working through a very fascinating thing on
the ethics of geneticly designing our children. Seems kind'a
relevant and good food for thought. Reader is pretty engaging as
well. I had some vague hope that the bioethics proff who wrote the
book would turn out to be a "Kill the mutents", or "Build every one
exactly the same", type of raving loonatic, but so far he seems
pretty innocuous.
Best,
Erik
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On 19-May-08, at 7:16 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
I actually like Audible quite a lot. Never had problems with them
for any of my MP3 players. Mostly I use Audible with my iPod.
The quality of the books is good, and while I'm not a fan of DRM
either, it is a reality we have to deal with. If you can name a
service that has anywhere close to the selection of Audible for
audio books to download DRM free, I'm all ears. You say there are
better ones out there. Let's here them? And Podio books don't
cut it. They're great for what they are, but I want to read the
latest Stephen King or Terry Brooks. For the very reasonable cost
of Audible, I can live with the DRM. Plus, you can burn books to
CD if you really need to axe the DRM badly enough. Right now i
get two audio boo credits per month for $21.95. That's less than
half the cost of most audio books on CD.
Josh de Lioncourt
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On 19 May, 2008, at 7:13 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Laughs, Fwow darcy. I'm startin to feel like a great big winer
here, but let me dispatch all this with a couple of short
rejoinders.
I don't use audible. Never have, probably never will. It's a
terrible system and there are much better download services out
there. Amazon just bought audible out, so there is hope on the
horizon, but audible as it stands sounds terrible, and comes
locked down against all of my mp3 players, for my two major
complaints.
In vlc, I can press command shift O, and hit enter on a folder
which has my book in it, and the files in that folder will play
in the right order. No fuss, no muss It also has a jump to time
function built in so no need to install the add on, although the
script from Tim's site does look quite nifty. I'm sure I can
make smart play lists if I had to, but I do... Not... Need, to
make smart play lists. That's just baggage.
Best,
Erik
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