Audible.com

Audible

URL: http://www.audible.com

Advantages

Disadvantages

  • Established vendor with a large master collection
  • Books, newspapers, magazines, and current radio programs
  • Burning CDs allowed
  • 23,000 titles in its master collection
  • Plays on iPods
  • They seem much more interested in the general consumer market than in the library market
  • Proprietary file format means that the playback device must be "Audible-ready"
  • One copy, one concurrent user
  • No administrative module
  • Four different compression ratios. Most playback devices handle some but not all four compression ratios, which causes some confusion for the end-user.

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