Gaiman on MP3 Audio Books, Mirrormask

Posted by Hemos on Monday October 17, 2005 @02:30AM from the changing-the-world-one-book-at-a-time dept.

A reader writes: "It appears that Neil Gaiman released two of his books (Anansi Boys and American Gods) as books on CD. The interesting twist is that they are being released as MP3 - which for the world of audio books is something pretty new. ". Indeed; MP3 audio books, I think, have given the book publishers the willies because of the DRM issue - anyone else seen this before? And also worth noting that Mirrormask was released in motion picture form and rocks. I think to describe it would be equal parts The Dark Crystal and Myst, combine with Carnivale and a dash of The City of Lost Children.

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Harry Potter has been available at ITunes.. by maddogdelta · 2005-10-17 02:41 · Score: 5, Informative

And Baen books has been releasing some of their books as mp3 audiobooks.
Not huge yet, but let's face it... as far as security is concerned, If you can get the cd, you can rip to mp3. I do that all the time to get books to listen to while I'm running. Angela's Ashes will be playing for me during a marathon this weekend.
(For you national socialists at RIAA, no, I am not posting the mp3's. This is for my own fair use)

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