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10/16/2003, 2:55pm, EDT

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Apple, Audible offer audiobooks on iTMS

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Audible and Apple today announced 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."

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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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128548 10/16, 3:23pm, EDT Cool
Lots of NPR, Terry Gross, Comedy stuff....

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128570 10/16, 4:00pm, EDT boo ya!!!

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

-The Boo Yaa Guy

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128606 10/16, 5:48pm, EDT 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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128608 10/16, 5:55pm, EDT 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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128609 10/16, 5:58pm, EDT 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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128618 10/16, 7:07pm, EDT 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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128629 10/16, 8:46pm, EDT 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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