Common Sense eCommerce

I love audio! I’m not referring to music (although I like that too) but rather audio files that I can listen to providing me with some sort of insight, enlightenment, or otherwise educational information. I like them because I listen to them while I am engaged in activities where I can’t read a book or do anything else (such as waiting in a long line or driving somewhere). It’s a way to have some information of my choosing played to me, rather than a spoon fed, pre-determined mass media audio.

Naturally that brings me to Audible.Com quite often. Audible is THE seller of audio books and they are partnered with various large eCommerce media companies like Amazon and Apple. Recently I bought a copy of Joe Vitale’s “The Key” on Audio and it was a real wrestling match getting it onto my iPod Nano. While Audible supports the Nano, the process of downloading to my iPod is usually fraught with errors and crashes. I have some technical expertise and can usually get the audio file going on my iPod but I feel for a non technical user of Audible. In their fervor to enforce DRM, Audible has created a process that is difficult and problematic - a long ways from seamless.

Audible is the eBay of the spoken audio world and it would be nice if they had some competition. I for one, am growing weary of these ‘wrestling matches’ with Audible downloads!

Tags: Audible.com, Audio Books, Audible Issues, Audible Downloads

Trackback This Post | Subscribe to the comments through RSS Feed