Audiobooks discussion

Infuriating restrictions on some author’s audio books due to publishing rights and not being authorized to sell their books in your country of residence, sometime this can happen part way through a series. Does anyone else struggle with this problem can readers do anything about this?

I share your frustration Emma-Louise. I live in Australia and there are many books not available to me - some never will be as the rights are never sold here while some are delayed for months or years.

As for what we can do - not much really. Aside from piracy of course. I do try to register any affected books with Lost Book Sales but it's actually quite hard for me to find out what books I can't buy. If I search audible for example I only ever see the books that are available to me because audible knows I am in Australia so they don't show me books I'm not allowed to buy.

Hi, I have the same problem with Audible not showing what is unavailable to me purchasing here in the UK. But I have found if I search books/authors on http://www.theaudiobookstore.com/ it shows all audio books available in the USA but when I ask to download it kicks me over to audible and then it asks me to use a different billing address, I used to be able to go through this link to bypass the Publishing Restrictions and buy what I wished on audible.com but sadly they have stepped up their site restrictions and this loop hole is now blocked (D'oh!) :(
I shall check out the site you mentioned. Thank you
Another good reads member told me about www.ioffer.com

(My asking what we can do? was my polite way of maybe fretting out other loop holes) :) (Blush) or maybe try some people power with numbers, as numbers equal money for Publishers

Thanks for answering nice to know I’m not alone in my frustrations.

Sending you good thoughts, happy reading (& listening :) x

It is a frustration! Esp when you enjoy sites like this and see or hear about books that sound good, then when you go to check out getting it you can't! Grrr
I guess it seems worse because while we can all chat together we can't read together.

My audios are DRM restricted from audible so no sharing. I guess people could pass on cds. I know Paperback swap does do cds and DVDs also.

Audible's "gifting" center is down currently but I did send an email a while ago to see if I could buy a US only audio as a gift for a friend in Euro. They refused to say if that was going to be possible once "gifting" opens back up. You can "gift" from itunes, does anyone know if there are Geo restrictions on gifts from them?

The only audio books I have are from audible and there's no way for me to share/swap these legally, regardless of how much I might want to. If I'm going to break the law and read books I can't get hold of legally I don't think I'll share my plans in a public space like this one :)

This is definitely an annoying problem. I'm busy being irritated right now because I want a certain Dick Francis book recorded by a certain narrator, but that specific recording is only available in the UK. Arg.

The best legal solution IMHO would be to get a friend in that country to mail you CDs. Not perfect by any means, but about the best you can do until publishing rights are established in your country!