Re:Top publishers sue Audible for copyright infringement
by DominikPeters on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:25PM
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I don’t understand why publishers are against Audible Captions. That feature makes audiobooks less pirate-able, and it also won’t lead to more pirating of ebooks, since it’s better to share a cracked ePub rather than ill-formatted captions. The only revenue loss I can see is from customers who would otherwise buy both the Kindle and the Audible version, but that must be a small fraction.
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Re:Top publishers sue Audible for copyright infringement
by socalnate1 on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:40PM
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My guess is that they just want to be paid more for them.
(i.e. They sold the rights to sell the audiobook alone; if audible wants to also include a text version of the book, they want more money).
Re:Top publishers sue Audible for copyright infringement
by Jemm on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:53PM
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At the expense of accessibility.