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| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6531 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 1 of 6 15 October 2011 at 1:05pm | IP Logged |
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I have used musicload.de several times now to buy German audiobooks, it works well. There
is a complication: the site only sells to people with a German/Austrian/Swiss IP Address, but this can be overcome by using a VPN service (such as hidemynet.com) when making purchases. There may be other sites that don't have this complication. Edited by DavidW on 15 October 2011 at 1:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5325 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 2 of 6 15 October 2011 at 1:40pm | IP Logged |
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How about audible.de? As I've mentioned before, they still offer lots of free unabridged German audiobooks for download and you don't need to provide credit card information or a German address. Do they check the IP address, too?
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| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6531 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 3 of 6 15 October 2011 at 2:06pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the link. Today I wanted a specific audiobook: 'Momo', by Micheal Ende. I
usually try to avoid using Audible as I find the DRM really inconvenient. Edited by DavidW on 15 October 2011 at 2:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6531 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 4 of 6 15 October 2011 at 8:42pm | IP Logged |
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It turned out to be an abridged version :-(.
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| TMoneytron Groupie United States Joined 4866 days ago 70 posts - 83 votes Studies: German | Message 5 of 6 15 October 2011 at 9:49pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah the DRM for audible is really annoying. DavidW do you know a way to convert them to MP3?
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| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6531 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 6 of 6 16 October 2011 at 3:17pm | IP Logged |
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Yes, there are a couple of methods. Google "audible convert mp3". The audible software
allows you to burn regular audio CDs from the protected files, so most methods involve burning to a 'virtual' CD drive, and then creating MP3s from this data. Frankly it's a hassle. Given that to have a pirated version floating around the internet, you only need one person to carry out his task, this copy protection provides little added security. Audible also pay very low royalties to the publishers (10-20% of the retail price, depending if you give them exclusive rights to sell the audio). Edited by DavidW on 16 October 2011 at 3:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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