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More audiobook publishers drop DRM: will Audible follow suit?

March 3, 2008 9:20am

Any idea if there's an address/phone number we can use to contact Amazon/Audible to nag them to drop DRM?

Audible does list a customer service telephone number but I wonder if there's a more relevant way to contact them on this issue specifically?

I'm more than happy to be a part of the "public outcry" Amazon lists as their precondition to dropping DRM.

Dungeons & Dragons 4.0 Makes Remote Pen-and-Paper Play Easier

October 16, 2007 4:19pm

I've been following the digital DnD news for a while now and,for my part, I think it's a good effort to get lapsed players back.

It doesn't have to be any kind of replacement for the tabletop. You don't need to subscribe (which is free ATM) to play with your friends. Don't bring a laptop to the gaming table and 4ed is no more digital than 1ed.

What it, hopefully, can be is a tabletop that's in my house in SoCal, that's in my friend's house in NY and that's in another friend's house somewhere equally far away. It doesn't take away story, prohibit role playing or encourage min-maxing. It's not twitch-based or an MMO. It's not Warcraft lite. It's a virtualization of a table that people can sit around, regardless of where they are, geographically. It's kind of like what some people think the internets is like.

People have been experimenting on ways to play DnD digitally for years. There were these crazy things called text MUDs a couple years ago, there is play-by-email and play-by-post gaming, there is IM gaming. This one is inherently no worse for gaming than any of the other attempts. If good players use it, then there will be good games with it.

Will it work? Who knows.

Visions of the Future/Listography

October 2, 2007 11:53pm

Mark, I've known you for nearly ten years and this is the first time I've seen you with your hair combed. It's kind of freaking me out.

Love the show. Keep 'em coming.

Cheers.

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