Amazon, the world’s leading book e-tailer, is getting larger by acquiring Audible. Audible is the leader of audible books sales on the internet with some 80,000 titles in the stable. Reuters is reporting that Amazon will pay $300 million for Audible, a 23% premium.

This move gives Amazon a steady hold on the electronic media market with the music download side of the house, Amazon MP3, already showing a strong growth with 3.3 million songs for sale. Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader also has full support for MP3s already, so I would think that they can easily allow the purchase of the audible e-book on the Kindle and have it delivered directly to the Kindle where the buyer listens to it via headphones or just plugs the Kindle into a speaker set.

I keep waiting for an Amazon, or one of their competitors, to offer me the service of sending me the e-book when I buy the paper version. I buy a lot of books from Amazon actually, it would be a huge service to me if they would just offer the e-book or now the MP3 version on the reciept page. I might need to start a campaign, build some grassroots ground-swell and then call Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, he would probably take my call, right?

Matt