It was bound to happen. But didn't it already? I could've sworn seeing something about audio books being available for purchase in an e-format via iTunes a few years ago. And when I ventured onto iTunes today I did see an audiobooks section. On Electronicbook.biz the idea of audio e-books is brought into discussion. Since we've been discussing copyright law and the blog entry discussed private label rights in order to start up an audio e-book venture. Private label rights entitle someone to buy the rights to text, software, or graphics and then have the "total entitlement" to do with them what they want. The entire blog post seemed outdated and poorly researched and left me completely mind boggled as to if the blogger was talking about public domain work with private label rights.
In any case, audio e-books are nothing new. They're just another part of the whole e-publishing business that, if anything, we're ahead of the curve years ago.
In any case, audio e-books are nothing new. They're just another part of the whole e-publishing business that, if anything, we're ahead of the curve years ago.
You know I have no idea what the site is talking about. Aside from looking like a zombie content site (something set up to take other content and spin it into a site who's primary concern is serving ads), the article is filled with misinformation. Audio books are available through Amazon, Audible, and Overdrive. All of them are audio e-books. And unless the book is in the public domain or a work for hire people do not have the right to do what they want with the content.
The entire site and article felt wrong.
Okay I ran a search on the site using whois.net and found the site's owner as one Clive Packham CEO, Global Internet Marketing Consultants who also writes about how online articles are also effective marketing pieces. This is one part of online parketing I haven't discussed in class. Companies can write articles for sites and they can in a way be used for marketing purposes. This is a slippery slope though as the US government has started to enact laws to control this practice.