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Why None of My Books Are Available on Audible

And Why Amazon Owes Me $3,218.55

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Why None of My Books Are Available on Audible

By: Cory Doctorow
Narrated by: Cory Doctorow
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A short audiobook I produced to be distributed through Amazon's ACX platform, explaining how that platform's sloppy rights verification and mandatory DRM screws over writers.

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Why has this best-selling author decided not to publish his work on the leading audiobook market? Doctorow explains the ways that Amazon exploits their stranglehold on the audiobook market to the detriment of writers, narrators and publishers. Amazon's lackadaisical regards for intellectual property all but guarantees that creatives will be ripped off.

An evisceration of a harmful monpoly

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A piece, explaining what is wrong with the model of audible, is still used by audible to create revenue. It's almost poetic.

And audible still cashes in on it?

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