I've been with Audible for a very long time,  four media players worth,I have to tell you I'm pretty good at keeping those things out of harms way, and all bought to work with Audible whose DRM sadly gets in the way of my usage to the point that should a competitor that doesn't treat me like a thief come along their days would be numbered..  Start counting.

http://www.emusic.com/  have started offering audio book free of DRM that can work in all my players.   Here's were Audible failed their CD burning.   Even though I am the user , that I have paid to be their user they hobbled  the cd burning to 1x speed e.g  REAL TIME unless you bought a partner program that cost $70  through them, sadly I already owned it but .. ooops that's not going to work out for them and I would have had to buy it again.. lovely.  So  how do I make back ups? Easy  I have a PC that plays the book into soundforge whichI  record and encode   and hey  look  Ma! no dmca offense. I now have a file that I can use on any of the home machines, or portables yes that -I- own.  Painfully legal.

I stopped buying from iTunes, and Buy and Real  a year ago for similar reasons and wonder how long it's going to take companies to "get" that  there's no  obstruction you can place in front of a thief  short of requiring appointments  to attend a listening booth were after a strip search, and paying their $1 to  hear the music  in the presence of an RIAA agent  that doesn't similarly inconvenience and offend  your paying audience.  While Apple came out against DRM and  blamed those nasty men in the music and movie business it looks like that's only when Video or music is concerned . This  post over at Wil Shipley's blog highlights just how far Apple will go regarding coercive practices on how their products can be used.

Not that, uh, we have to pay attention to what the record companies think is Not Allowed, because we have already licensed the song for playback on any device if we bought a CD -- we are allowed to play it on our iPhone already. Just not in response to someone calling us. The record companies have MADE UP some new, retroactive copyright and Apple is enforcing it for them. The result is, a million customers don't get to do something cool with their iPhones.

Because of greed.

Because of Greed Audible enforce a 1x cd burner... and lost another customer to a company that treats people with more respect from the outset.