I've found that Audible-exclusive downloads tend to be released by Brilliance Audio (an audiobook publisher Amazon bought a few years ago) about a year after their download release.
Sarek audio book
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Interestingly, the unabridged Chivers Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America version of "Sarek" is apparently dates back to 2001, and supposedly predates their other release: the Grover Gardner audio version of the "Nemesis" novelization (2002). Both are easier to find second hand these days, as public libraries have weeded their old stock of audio cassettes. Upon original release, these unabridged audios were almost prohibitively expensive.
(Simon & Schuster Audioworks' own abridged "Nemesis" was read by Boyd Gaines, a former associate of Valeris in a previous life. Hehehehe.)
As long as I'm aware that it should become available in a few months, I'm fine. I can wait a little while.
Checking the Brilliance Audio website, I see only one Trek-related item:
https://library.brillianceaudio.com/product.asp?AuthorId=122&Titleid=15659
Leonard Nimoy's "I Am Spock"
There's also Walter Koenig's production of his SF novel:
https://library.brillianceaudio.com/product.asp?AuthorId=1555&Titleid=30998
"Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot".
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True, but I don't think Audible has produced any Trek books.
Not even Sarek, actually - looking more closely, the new Sarek audiobook is published by S&S, not by Audible. Which completely throws what I said out the window.
No, not brand new ones, but it seems to be Audible.com who provides the downloadable e-versions of all of Simon & Schuster Audioworks' "Star Trek" productions.
http://www.audible.com/search/ref=sr_lftbox_1_1
Look at the title on the Amazon entry, though. It still credits Audible, even though the revised cover slick credits S&S.
Note that this seems to be a S&S buy-out of the previously-released, unabridged Chivers Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America version of "Sarek", which dates back to 2001. Not the original S&S Mark Lenard version:
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Sarek-A-Crispin/dp/0792724712
I think that refers to the format; if you scroll down to the Product Details, S&S is listed as the publisher.
That makes a lot more sense then randomly releasing a brand new audiobook of a random decade-old hardcover!
I did find other descriptions that credit "Audible Frontiers" in the Product Details. The point is that Simon & Schuster Audioworks doesn't handle the downloadable format themselves; it farms it out to Audible.com, a division of Amazon. When it comes to filling in the descriptor, cataloguers will have to choose one or the other.
The curiosity is that Chivers Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America had done an unabridged version in 2001 (followed by their own elusive version of "Nemesis" in 2002) that none of us seemed to hear about at the time, and S&S Audioworks have been able to test the market further on unabridged ST novels by rereleasing the Chivers/BBC version instead of their own.
Certainly the market for abridged audios has seemingly vanished entirely now that CDs, and then downloadable files, made it possible to fit more words in a recording medium.
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