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Re:Top publishers sue Audible for copyright infringement by DominikPeters on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:25PM (#20780802)
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.
Re:Top publishers sue Audible for copyright infringement by socalnate1 on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:40PM (#20780997)
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 (#20781894)
At the expense of accessibility.
Re:Top publishers sue Audible for copyright infringement by tinus_hn on Sunday August 25, 2019 @12:20AM (#20791341)
Audiobooks accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing.
Re:Top publishers sue Audible for copyright infringement by blueboo on Friday August 23, 2019 @04:45PM (#20782372)
They're not against it. They're against licensing it for free, and what permitting media-shifting surprises might do to damage all their licensing agreements.