back to article Apple, Amazon smash audiobook cabal after European pressure

Apple and Amazon have agreed to end the exclusivity deal that gave Audible sole access to the iBooks store. The European Commission said on Thursday the two tech giants have agreed to open up the iOS book service to audiobooks distributed by other publishers. According to the EU, Amazon has had the exclusive rights to provide …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    It's all irrellevant now

    as The Donald is going to bring all book writing back to the US? and it's going to be yuuuuuuuuuuuge ! There will be so many great words !

    1. Tom Servo

      Re: It's all irrellevant now

      The Donald is going to bring all book burning back to the US.

      Obvious FTFY.

      Bollocks to today.

    2. Solarflare

      Re: It's all irrellevant now

      To be fair, he knows the great words. He's worked with the great words and they really are the best. Some people say that words have been getting worse lately but Donald will make words great again.

      1. Dan 55 Silver badge

        Re: It's all irrellevant now

        No books or audiobooks. Donald will set fire to your books and your Chinese headphones.

      2. OwenMc64

        Re: It's all irrellevant now

        Grate is the word that springs to mind with President Tweety-Pie Trump....

  2. The_Idiot

    On a more...

    ... (or indeed less, from the perspective of those here (maple flavoured blush)), it makes me wonder if this might finally spur ACX into accepting authors/ producers beyond those they currently do (US based, UK based and, I think, Australian).

    Still, none of that is in any way Trump-ian, so likely not relevant to the subject at hand :-) :-(.

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