Jacken’s Blog

I’ve been a happy customer of audible.com for almost three years now, but today I cancelled my subscription. When trying to buy a book on my monthly subscription, six out of ten books that I looked at could not be purchased in my region. So they now divide up the world, just like they did with DVDs. I’m guessing that because of the number of iPods, it’s becoming big business to sell audiobooks. So now they have to control the customer more. How fucking stupid. Sure, the book companies here in Sweden want to put their 40% on the price, but I’m not willing to pay that. So I will use the simplest way of getting audio books, I’ll use Usenet instead. No restriction, no sticker.