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Given Apple's willingness to host very expensive streaming content, I wonder how much this is going to cost them, especially for content that has no intention of charging.
Also, I wonder if Apple is working with Audible.com, it's audio-book partner (of sorts), or if it instead has begun stepping on Audible's toes. For instance, I see that Apple is now making available some content previously available as a free download from Audible, like Harry Shearer's weekly 'Le Show' broadcasts. Is Apple streaming one of Audible's versions (Audible offers two different quality/size versions of Shearer's broadcast), or is it offering an AAC version of its own? Will Apple turn on Audible? Or perhaps buy the company...?
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