DRM in Audiobooks

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The chapter discusses the issue with publishing audiobooks on Audible and the requirement to have the books wrapped in Audible's DRM. They highlight the discrepancy in penalties between stealing a physical book and bypassing DRM, and how Amazon's market dominance enables them to control both customers and suppliers.

This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about how we can get back to that “new good internet.” Cory’s new book The Internet Con offers a lens to this conversation about disenshittifying the internet through anti-trust laws, limits on corporate tweaking, regulating unconstrained capitalism, and all the ways enshittification is enabled. Cory also shares his experience recording his own audio book under the direction of Gabrielle de Cuir at Skyboat Media, and what’s to come from his next Science Fiction book The Lost Cause.

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