Two years later, the service released "Audible Air", which allowed users to download audiobooks directly to PDAs and smartphones. This agreement ended in 2017 due to antitrust rulings in the European Union. In 2003, Audible reached an agreement with Apple to be the exclusive provider of audiobooks for iTunes Music Store. Development proceeded, however, leading to Audible licensing the ACELP codec for its downloads in 2000, and Amazon bought a 5 percent stake in the then-publicly traded company the same year. On October 24, 1999, Audible suffered a setback when its CEO, Andrew J. In 1999, Microsoft invested $11 million into the company. To use the player, consumers would go online to the official Audible website, download the audiobook, and put it onto the player. The company's first product was an eponymous portable media player known as the Audible MobilePlayer released in 1997, the device contained around four megabytes of on-board flash memory storage, which could hold up to two hours of audio. The service is owned by Audible, a wholly-owned subsidiary of, Inc., headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. Audible is the United States' largest audiobook producer and retailer. This content can be purchased individually or under a subscription model where the user receives "credits" that can be redeemed for content monthly and receive access to a curated on-demand library of content. Pick a location, and you’re all set.Online audiobook and podcast service Audible, Inc.įire OS, Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, web browserĪudible is an American online audiobook and podcast service that allows users to purchase and stream audiobooks and other forms of spoken word content.
At this point you should be prompted to save the DRM-free ebook. Open one up and then quit the Kindle for PC app. You’ll find your Kindle books in Archived Items. After an extended moment, the Kindle for PC application will launch. You may be required to browse to python.exe in order to run it, but either way the goal is to run it with Python. Once you’ve got all of that installed and ready, open up the unswindle.py script. Python (Anything 2.x should work fine, but if you want to follow instructions exactly ou can download 2.6.4.).Kindle for PC (Yes, this means you need Windows but it Kindle for PC reportedly works with Wine.).Too Smart Guys created the video above (the tutorial portion starting at 2:05), demonstrating how to remove DRM from Kindle ebooks that you legally purchased. If you’ve got some Kindle books you’d like to use with a different device, here’s how to remove the DRM so you can. Amazon’s Kindle jumpstarted the ebook revolution, but that doesn’t make it the eReader of choice for everyone.
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