With DRM-free being the new standard and copyright owners known as stressed creatives we see a rise of DRM-free online audiobooks, says LibraryJournal.com. By doing a little research they came up with a good number of online libraries, they showed that there is some perspective. Although CDs still do fine and are sold respectively well, market insiders believe the format has one decade left before it's taken over by online.

Online being the future and with new change of mentality among the people, being realistic we can expect many new protection methods to roll-out soon. Many believe DRM isn't the right way of protection and think they can simply describe it as a "speed bump", as DRM has no future. After two described losses, CD and DRM, we can focus on the winning teams.

DRM-free audiobooks are definitely on the rise and the subject is getting 'hotter' by the day. Next month the APA will launch a new campaign called Get Caught Listening, which will embrace the virtues of audiobook listening.