>Not surprisingly, a lot of people assume that if an Audible search for an author or book comes up empty, that means there is no audiobook available. They don’t think of searching for the book on Google Books, or Libro.fm, or Downpour. They never think to check to see whether the author maintains their own storefront, as I do, where you can get all their ebooks and audiobooks without DRM.

> Is there an alternative store the author recommends?

They mention "Google Books, or Libro.fm, or Downpour" or having your own storefront, but it's mainly a problem statement.

> A policy cure?

Removing Section 1201 from the DMCA?

Yes I was hoping that he was announcing a collaboration with others with similar problems. One of the things that leads to this kind of abuse is industry dominance, and one of the things that encourages industry dominance is that average consumers don't want to have to think about more than a couple of places to go to get their content. A collaboration of those who have been bitten by audible would be much better than each of them doing their own thing.

Cory is sometimes crowdfounding his audiobooks, see the campaign for "Attack Surface" some time ago.