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A recent interview with @pluralistic , on CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/13/business/enshittification-internet-meta-nightcap/index.html
“So for example, if Audible (which is owned by Amazon) sells you one of my audiobooks, they require that it have digital rights management that locks it to Audible’s platform forever — you can’t unlock it, quit Audible and take your books with you.
And if I give you a tool to jailbreak the audiobook so you can go somewhere else, I commit a felony punishable by a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine.
So even though I am the rights holder to that work, Amazon, the intermediary who sold you the work, has more intellectual-property rights to that work than I do.”
@AdminKirsty @pluralistic
I'll have to quit Audible very soon...
@mashapotempa @AdminKirsty @pluralistic Luckily for us, there's Libro.fm, with DRM-free audiobooks and the option to donate a small portion of each purchase to your choice of indie bookstore.
https://libro.fm/
@deFractal @AdminKirsty @pluralistic That sounds great! I will check that out! Thanks!
@deFractal @mashapotempa @AdminKirsty @pluralistic is this in the US?
@peediewee @mashapotempa @AdminKirsty @pluralistic According to my cursory reading (one Wikipedia article), Libro.fm is a California social purpose corporation currently serving customers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. I've bought and received as gifts audiobooks through them from Canada.
@deFractal @mashapotempa @AdminKirsty @pluralistic thank you, that's great. i'm in scotland so this is great. i don't listen to audiobooks (not yet anyway) but my friend does. he's subscribed to audible & i was wanting to suggest this as an alternative. 
@peediewee @mashapotempa @AdminKirsty @pluralistic For ebooks, you might consider Kobo (on paper, a partnership of an Irish company and a Canadian company).
Kobo also sells audiobooks, but I prefer Libro.fm for those, both because it helps me keep my local indie brick-and-mortar store alive (preserving local employment and a local third place), and because it doesn't have a particular international multi-corporate structure which reminds me of an episode of the Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network. For ebooks, though, I figure better Kobo than Kindle.
@deFractal @mashapotempa @AdminKirsty @pluralistic brilliant, thank you. i don't have a lot of ebooks (5 or 6) as i prefer the physical kind but that's great info when i buy some. have a good day.