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Apple, Audible offer audiobooks on iTMS

updated 02:55 pm EDT, Thu October 16, 2003

 
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Audible and Apple today that more than 20,000 hours of audiobooks and other spoken word programs are now available for download exclusively from the iTunes Music Store: "Through iTunes, Mac and Windows customers can preview and download audio editions of best-selling books, magazines, radio programs and original shows, manage audio content alongside their music collection, and take their entire audio library with them for listening anywhere with the market-leading iPod digital music player."

Audible.com is the exclusive provider of spoken word audio to the iTunes Music Store with more than 5,000 spoken word audio titles available from the iTunes Music Store, including content ranging from new audiobook bestsellers like "Bleachers" by John Grisham and "The Teeth of the Tiger" by Tom Clancy to classics like "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain and the iTunes exclusive science fiction audiobook, "Whipping Mek," an original story by Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson that bridges the Legends of Dune trilogy novels "The Butlerian Jihad" and "The Machine Crusade." The Audible collection also includes speeches, lectures, language lessons, audio editions of periodicals such as Forbes and the Scientific American, as well as the best of public radio programs such as Fresh Air, Car Talk and This American Life.



Newly released audiobooks and other new spoken audio content will be added to the iTunes Music Store every week. All Audible content available from the iTunes Music Store can be burned onto an unlimited number of CDs for personal use, listened to on an unlimited number of iPods, and played on up to three Macintosh or Windows PC computers.


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    Cool

    Lots of NPR, Terry Gross, Comedy stuff....

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    boo ya!!!


    This sounds great . I can't wait to try it out.

    -The Boo Yaa Guy

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    Hey!

    An individal show from the "This American Life" archives costs $2.95 via Audible.com, but $3.95 from the iTMS.

    Why the discrepancy? Ugh.

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    prices are too high

    but this is a great idea. For me, I'll listen to a song more than once but rarely would listen to one of these more than once, twice max. I'd like to see the price drop by 75% or so. Now that I think about it, some sort of rental policy for audio books would be nice...

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    File size

    How large are the file sizes of a full length novel(a Grisham, for instance)? Will it fit on a CD?

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    did you know

    This is funny, "the second comming of steve jobs" is available on itunes . Well I already buy it from audible

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    audible subscribers?

    the only problem is that you can't use your existing audible subscription, which gives you a few books each month. you have to make purchases ala carte...

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