Amazon.com buys Audible; March into digital content distribution continues

Amazon.com’s march into digital distribution of content continues–this time with plans to acquire Audible for $300 million.
In a statement on Thursday, Amazon said it will acquire Audible, which provides digital spoken word content–audio versions of books, newspapers and other programming. Audible offers more than 80,000 programs.
If you couple Audible with Amazon’s march into DRM-free music […]