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Why None Of My Books Are Available On Audible: And why Amazon owes me $3,218.55 by [Cory Doctorow]

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Why None Of My Books Are Available On Audible: And why Amazon owes me $3,218.55 Kindle Edition

by Cory Doctorow (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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The Kindle edition of 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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Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults, IN REAL LIFE, a graphic novel; INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE, a book about earning a living in the Internet age, and HOMELAND, a YA sequel to LITTLE BROTHER. His next book is POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER, a picture book for young readers.

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Dave the Obscure

Wakeup Call

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2022

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This short little work details the struggles of the author to control his own work in the face of a corporation worth billions of dollars. Doctorow wanted to publish his books without the ridiculous DRM that forces customers like me, who use Linux, to use a clunky web browser based interface to listen to what I've paid for but can never truly own. Like the author, I love audio-books and because of the pandemic have been a constant customer of Audible. I see his point.

I've bought enough audio-books to last me for quite awhile. This will give me time to look into alternatives to Audible for my future needs. So I'll be cancelling my Audible account today. Why? Because I love reading Cory Doctorow and would love to be able to buy his works from Audible. But only on his terms. So I'll be buying them from him. I don't expect that Amazon will allow this review to be shown on their website. No matter. I think people will come to this conclusion eventually on their own.

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Chuck

Can't wait for the audiobook

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2022

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Let's get that baby on the Audible bestseller charts once it's available.

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A great modern thinker

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2022

Cory is one of the Renaissance men of modern times. Read his books and articles, listen to his podcasts. You will be better for it. @corydoctorow

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Mika A. Cooper

Excellent indictment of DRM, Audible, & Amazon

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2022

Doctorow explains how Digital Rights Management (DRM), while great for large companies that provide content, is terrible for both the creators of that content & the consumers. He dives specifically into the case of Audible, which is owned by Amazon, & which retains digital control of the audiobooks it sells, even against the wishes of the audiobooks' creators. He describes how Amazon's ACX audiobook-creation platform can easily be gamed to steal money not just from authors but also from narrators tricked by unscrupulous operators into making recordings for which they don't get paid. As an example, Doctorow offers the case of his own novel Walkaway, a illegal audiobook recording of which was commissioned by someone & marketed via ACX for some time before the illegality was discovered, leaving the duped narrator unpaid for dozens of hours of recording work & stealing $3,218.55 in sales from Doctorow. This short monograph is a great, eyeopening read; it certainly explains why Doctorow retains the audio rights to all his work & markets his own finely crafted audiobooks via his own site, rather than through Audible & Amazon. I wish more authors did the same.

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Tim

I'm sorry you got screwed, but readers are the only ones you're hurting

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2022

I'm sorry you got screwed by Audible, Cory, but your readers are the only ones you're hurting by not making your incredible and prescient work (including and especially, Radicalized, which EVERYONE needs to read) - are your current and potential readers.
I believe that a world in which people read (or listen to) more books like Radicalized and Little Brother - just like a world in which more read 1984, Animal Farm, and Brave New World - is a better world.

I aggressively support your position, and hate that Amazon is trying to screw you over, but there's got to be a better way than making your books unavailable on certain platforms.

Perhaps a "late release" schedule? One where Audible only gets the books much later than other platforms?

In any case, Cory, I love your work and hope you keep writing. I'll be reading no matter the platform. I just worry that others won't feel similarly.

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Joshua Bradley

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Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2022

Cory produces some of the best audiobooks I’ve ever heard, and DRM across media is an assault on what you’ve spent your money on. Do you think you own all those digital albums and films? If the platform loses their rights, your purchase goes out the window with it. It’s probably no big deal, because they’ll just get you for $10 a month to give you the privilege to participate in shirking artists and authors.

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Concise analysis of the Audible business model

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2022

The author is an expert on critical issues in the information age who writes engagingly and clearly.

The audiobook version is now available as well. That would seem like the ideal format.
Versions can also be found in the author's podcast and on his blog, and (as text) on his blog, Pluralistic.

As I write this, the Kindle edition is classed as #1 in 30-Minute Teen & Young Adult Short Reads

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Amazing

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2022

Better than The Great Gatsby.

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