One of the serious players in the audio book market is Audible.com, which is now owned by Amazon.
The service allows you to download books as files with an .aa extension, which are then only playable using the Audible software or iTunes (and by extension, on associated iTunes devices) on machines that have been "authorized." When that works, it works; when it doesn't (I've had it happen to me while in Kazakhstan), it's really frustrating.
There had been hopes, when Amazon bought Audible, that the DRM would go away, but that hasn't happened (and barring some kind of customer uprising, probably won't).
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Date: 2013-05-05 12:49 pm (UTC)The service allows you to download books as files with an .aa extension, which are then only playable using the Audible software or iTunes (and by extension, on associated iTunes devices) on machines that have been "authorized." When that works, it works; when it doesn't (I've had it happen to me while in Kazakhstan), it's really frustrating.
There had been hopes, when Amazon bought Audible, that the DRM would go away, but that hasn't happened (and barring some kind of customer uprising, probably won't).
Cheers...