NPR on an MP3 player

I could sign up with Audible.com, and pay $70 a year for Morning Edition and $70 for All Things Considered, and be able to download the programs into a portable MP3 player. Hmmm...maybe that would be a valuable promo for my public radio station to give away for a donation. Something to think about, WETA 90.9 and WAMU 88.5.

If people start paying for NPR programs on Audible, then they're less likely to donate to their local station, which will start the decline of local programming on public radio. As people get used to paying for content on the net, this problem will only get bigger. So, it might be good to nip it in the bud, and let NPR sell MP3s of the programs through affiliate stations webpages, so the affiliate and NPR get a cut of the action, rather than NPR cutting the affiliate out of the action.