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More on Amazon/Brilliance

Amazon's announcement yesterday that it is buying Brilliance Audio sent a few ripples throughout the industry. I was onsite yesterday at Audible, however, and I can say that all was calm there; Barron's blogger Eric Savitz can rest easy.

The one thing Audible's got going for it at the moment is its exclusive deal with Apple. This makes Audible's audiobooks the only ones that are easily transferrable to an iPod. While you can download books from Brilliance Audio, they are only playable on devices compatible with Overdrive's Media Console...devices that do not include the iPod family.

You can burn your Brilliance audiobooks to CDs, and then import those CD files into iTunes and thus onto your iPod, but that's significantly more work.

So as long as Audible's got this exclusive deal with Apple, it will retain the leadership position in the ever-expanding audiobook world.
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