BoingBoing points to a Publishers Weekly article on Simply Audiobooks, a Toronto-based audiobook seller that will offer more than 5,000 Random House audiobooks without DRM.
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Publishers Dropping DRM for Audiobooks
Random House and other leading book publishers have announced that they are dropping DRM for their audiobook sales. Random House experimented with DRM-free audiobooks in the fall on eMusic and could not find a single instance where a DRM-free book later appeared on a P2P system.
LibriVox
The NY Times features an article on LibriVox, a project that brings together volunteers to create audiobook versions of books in the public domain. The project is the brainchild of Hugh McGuire from Montreal.