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Breaking free from big tech and big content with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Do You Have a Blank License?
Audible Gate is a scandal where independent authors and smaller publishers get their books onto Audible via something called the ACX platform, which is also owned by Audible Amazon. Some people were using this like a library to get like unlimited credits and keep listening to books every single month. The only reason that anybody found out about this was because of an author activist who mobilized against it. And they've been fighting really hard in this campaign led by an incredible author activist called Susan May. They have managed to get some change, but it's really, Really hard to get Amazon and Audible to do anything other than the bare minimum to avert the scandal.
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