Audible Announces Technology Integration and Marketing Program for Sony CLIE Handhelds.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

WAYNE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2004

Audible.com Audio Service Now Provides CLIE Users with Audiobooks, 34,000 Hours of Information and Entertainment; Free Trial Subscription

for CLIE Users

Audible, Inc. (OTCBB:ADBL) today announced that the award-winning Audible.com Internet audio service can now be used by owners of Sony CLIE handhelds running Palm OS 5.2. This includes the UX-40/50 series and audio-enabled TJ35 series CLIEs. Audible is the leading provider of digitally delivered spoken word audio.

Audible's audio service transforms these Sony CLIE handhelds into go-anywhere audiobook playback devices, enabling busy professionals, students, and anyone who reads when their eyes are busy but their minds are free. Users download and store Audible's audio titles on internal memory (on the UX only) or on Memory Stick removable storage media. All supported CLIE handhelds can play Audible formats 2 and 3, and a 256MB Memory Stick can hold up to 64 hours of audiobooks, audio periodicals, language learning, readings, lectures, comedy, and other audio entertainment and news from Audible.com.

All of these CLIE users are being offered a free trial AudibleListener(R) membership, which gives users any two audiobooks from Audible's collection of 6,000 titles, or one audiobook and one 1-month subscription to any of the programs in Audible's unique Subscription Center (www.audible.com/subscriptions), the only Internet audio news kiosk for subscribing to audio editions of national newspapers, magazines, original shows and public radio programs.

"Providing our industry-leading collection of spoken word audio to Sony CLIE handheld users is an important event in the development of the AudibleReady compatibility program, and we are honored to work with Sony, a world-renowned leader in consumer electronics," said Guy Story, Chief Scientist, Audible, Inc. "We believe that the Audible service will appeal to Sony CLIE users because, similar to our current customer base, CLIE users are busy, Internet savvy, and hungry for valuable audio that can transform otherwise unproductive times of day into rich, fruitful ones."

About Audible.com:

Audible.com, recently named the best consumer Web service by CNet.com (April 2003), and one of the "Best of Today's Web" by PC World (August 2002) features daily audio editions of The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times -- available on a subscription basis in time for the morning drive to work each day -- as well as Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American and Fast Company. The site offers a powerful collection of audiobook best sellers and classics by authors such as Tom Clancy, Stephen King, John Grisham, Mary Higgins Clark, James Patterson, the Dalai Lama, David McCullough, Stephen Hawking, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and Jane Austen. There are also speeches, lectures, and on-demand radio programs including "Marketplace," "All Things Considered," "Car Talk," "Fresh Air" and "This American Life," and original shows such as [e-mail]. All of the programs at audible.com are available for computer-based playback, burning to audio CD, and on-the-go listening using numerous AudibleReady portable digital audio players offered by leading consumer electronics and computer manufacturers.

About Audible, Inc.:

Audible(R) (www.audible.com(R)) is the Internet's leading premium spoken audio source. Content from Audible is downloaded and played back on personal computers, CDs, or AudibleReady(R) computer-based mobile devices. Audible has more than 34,000 hours of audio programs and more than 135 content partners that include leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers and business information providers. Audible.com is Amazon.com's and the Apple iTunes Music Store's pre-eminent provider of spoken word products for downloading or streaming via the Web. Additionally, the Company is strategically aligned with Random House, Inc. in the first-ever imprint to produce spoken word content specifically suited for digital distribution, Random House Audible. Among the Company's key business relationships are Apple Corp., Die Zeit, Gateway, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Microsoft Corporation, palmOne, Inc., PhatNoise Inc., RealNetworks, Inc., Roxio, Inc., Sony Electronics, Texas Instruments Inc., and VoiceAge Corp.

Note to Editors: Audible, www.audible.com, Audible Otis, AudibleListener, and AudibleReady are registered trademarks of Audible, Inc. and all are part of the family of Audible, Inc. trademarks.

Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

This press release contains information about Audible, Inc. that is not historical fact and may be deemed to contain forward-looking statements about the company. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in any forward-looking statements as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, Audible's limited operating history, history of losses, uncertain market for its services, and its inability to license or produce compelling audio content and other risks and uncertainties detailed in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings.