Or, this unknown publisher might never had have them in the first place. This product isn't available," and suggested that there was an issue with sound quality or that a publisher might have lost its rights to the book.
Within hours, the new edition vanished from Audible, replaced with a message from the retailer: "Shucks. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Ringsfeaturing actor Andy Serkis as narrator.īut commenters in Muckajev's thread began pointing out some strange discrepancies on the listing for his audiobook: the description listed it as being in the public domain, the cover art was from an existing Ace Books edition, and the publisher was listed as "Harald Cooper." Muckajev's excitement quickly turned into dread. New audiobook editions are also not unheard of: Harper Collins recently reissued new editions of J.R.R. Specialty publisher The Folio Society released a limited edition of its already special edition of the novel last year, Ace Books released its own Deluxe Edition a couple of years ago, Abrams Books released a graphic novel adaptation of the book, and there's a new graphic novel adaptation of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. It wouldn't be terribly surprising to see a new edition of the book hitting stories this fall: with Denis Villeneuve's adaptation just a couple of months away from premiering, there's a lot of interest in the classic science fiction novel. "I just recently had the honor of producing and narrating a new audiobook for Frank Herbert’s Dune," he wrote* on a post on Reddit's r/Audiobooks community, "and I would love to share this moment with you all by giving away as many free copies as I can before my promo codes are exhausted!"
It began innocuously enough: Nikola Muckajev watched in excitement as his latest project went live on Audible last week, and he had promotional codes to give away. An audiobook narrator spent two months creating a new audio edition of Dune, only to discover that the entire project was a scam Photo by Jack Prichett on Unsplash
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