O fim do DRM nos audiobooks?

«Penguin is planning to offer audiobooks that are free of digital copyright protection technology, which will allow buyers to play them on any digital device, dismissing fears that they could become the latest target for online pirates.

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Announcing a strong set of annual results from Pearson, which also owns the Financial Times, chief executive Marjorie Scardino said yesterday that Penguin would follow Random House and experiment with selling "DRM-free" digital versions of its audiobooks on the internet

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Scardino admitted that another potential electronic version of literature - digital books or ebooks - has yet to take off because there is still no attractive digital book-reading device

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It's like downloadable music - iTunes came first but without the iPod I think that would not have really mattered»

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