That's a stiffer sentence than you'd face if you were to just pirate the audiobook. It's a harsher penalty than you'd get for shoplifting the book on CD from a truck-stop. It's more draconian than the penalty for hijacking the truck that delivers the CDs!
Amazon knows every time you buy an audiobook at Audible,you increase the cost you'll have to pay if you switch to a competitor. They use that fact to give readers a worse deal (last year they tried out *ads* in audiobooks!).
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