“My agent tells me that this decision has cost me enough money to pay off my mortgage and put my kid through college.”
Audible controls more than 90% of the audiobook market and requires DRM on every title. Doctorow refuses DRM, so Audible won’t sell his books, and 9 in 10 audiobook buyers who search there assume no audio version exists. Leave Amazon and you leave your library behind. That is the lock-in working exactly as designed.