While large publishers took the lead in suing to block the Audible Captions initiative, authors who control their own audiobook rights and have produced titles through Audible’s ACX program expressed concerns that their titles were in line to be “captioned” without their prior consent as well. As a group, those authors comprise a major supplier, accounting for almost 160,000 titles according to the company’s website. As we reported a week ago (and most other accounts mangled), as a strict matter of law the court order delaying the launch of Captions until there is a ruling on the expedited motion for […]
