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Audible.com Announces Compatibility with Treo 600 Smartphone from palmOne.


Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

WAYNE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 25, 2003

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Award-Winning Internet Audio See RealAudio.  Service Provides Treo 600 Smartphone

Users with Best Selling Audiobooks, 34,000 Hours of

Information and Entertainment

Audible, Inc. (OTC BB: ADBL), today announced that the new Treo(TM) 600 wireless smartphone from palmOne, Inc. can act as an AudibleReady(R) device for listening to any audio downloaded from Audible.com(R). Audible.com features audio editions of the latest best sellers, newspapers, magazines, radio programs and original shows, and is the leading provider of digitally delivered spoken word audio.

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 the 2000 U.S. Census. The free AudiblePlayer(R) for Palm OS(R) transforms the Treo 600 smartphone into a go-anywhere audiobook playback device, capable of storing and playing hours of audiobooks, audio periodicals, public radio, language learning, and more. Treo 600 smartphone users who go to www.audible.com/treo/freeal can obtain the free AudiblePlayer application allowing storage and playback of audio programs and audiobooks from Audible's Internet audio service.

"The AudiblePlayer for the Treo 600 smartphone will give our customers the ability to access, purchase, download and listen to a wide-variety of compelling audio content available directly from Audible," said David Diangson, senior manager, Strategic Partner Development, at palmOne, Inc. "AudiblePlayer now leverages the audio and SD Card functionality of the Treo 600 smartphone in a way that literally speaks to busy mobile professionals."

"The Treo 600 smartphone has already been heralded as a state of the art communications device--cell phone, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). , email manager--now it can be enhanced by any owner, regardless of their wireless plan, to become an AudibleReady device capable of seamless playback of our 20,000 valuable audio titles," added Matthew Fine, senior vice president, Enterprise Development, Audible, Inc. "We are particularly proud of how well our service can be integrated into the functions of the Treo smartphone and into this new type of multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose  
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 Times audio digest from Audible on your Treo 600 smartphone and a call comes in, your software will automatically pause for the call and restart playback when the call is complete. Our audio programs can be stored to and played from both the main and storage card memories. New communicator devices like the Treo smartphone require this type of sophisticated user experience."

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 Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership and , Scientific American Scientific American

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 and Fast Company. The site offers a powerful collection of audiobook best sellers and classics by authors such as Tom Clancy For the member of the Irish folk band The Clancy Brothers, see Tom Clancy (singer) and for the American Celticist, see Thomas Owen Clancy.

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About Audible, Inc.

Audible(R) (www.audible.com(R)) is the Internet's largest, most diverse provider of premium spoken audio services for content download and playback on personal computers, CD or AudibleReady(R) computer-based mobile devices. Audible has more than 34,000 hours of audio programs and 135 content partners that include leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers and business information providers. Audible.com is Amazon.com's (www.amazon.com) exclusive provider of spoken word products for downloading or streaming via the Web. Additionally, the Company is strategically aligned with Random House, Inc., to pioneer the first-ever imprint to produce spoken word content specifically suited for digital distribution, Random House Audible. Among the Company's key business partners are Apple Corp., Casio Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Microsoft Corporation, palmOne, Inc., Royal Philips Electronics, RealNetworks, Inc., Sony Electronics, Texas Instruments and VoiceAge Corp.

Audible, www.audible.com, Audible Otis, AudibleListener, and AudibleReady are registered trademarks of Audible, Inc. AudiblePlayer is a trademark of Audible, Inc. and all are part of the family of Audible, Inc. trademarks.

Palm OS is a registered trademark of the Palm Trademark Holding Company. Treo is a trademark of palmOne, Inc. and its subsidiaries, which may be registered in some countries.

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.
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