Audible Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Audible removing in-app purchases according to Apple's rules

by Mike Schramm (Oct 10th, 2011)

We've seen quite a bit of squabbling over the subscription and in-app purchase for content rules on the App Store in the past, but generally, things have tended to go Apple's way. Most companies, especially those who really depend on the iOS audience for buying their content, are eventually ...

Audible finally arrives on the iPhone

by Chris White (Jul 16th, 2010)

I've been an Audible fan for far longer then I've owned an iPhone; when I first launched the App Store, Audible was one of the first things I searched for. Thanks to some of the changes made in iOS 4.0, some of the largest challenges for an Audible iPhone app we've written about in the past are ...

Audible.com downloads: there's an app for that, just not on the iPhone.

by TJ Luoma (Mar 24th, 2010)

There are very, very few things I miss about my Treo, but one of the few is my favorite app: AudibleAir. AudibleAir is an application from Audible.com that would download audio books from your Audible Library directly to your mobile phone. It is available on just about every popular smartphone you ...

Amazon buys audiobook vendor Audible

by Erica Sadun (Jan 31st, 2008)

The tie between spoken-books merchant Audible and iTunes has always been strong. Audible's catalog forms the backbone of iTunes' audio book offerings, and there's a history of Audible offering iTunes-exclusive content. So it came as a surprise to me when Amazon bought Audible for $300 million, ...

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