Audible.com Becomes Exclusive Sponsor of Doonesbury at Slate Magazine.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WAYNE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2003 Audible, Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). BB: ADBL ADBL Agricultural Development Bank Limited (Nepal) ) announced that it is the exclusive sponsor of www.Doonesbury.com, the critically acclaimed website of the popular comic strip comic strip, combination of cartoon with a story line, laid out in a series of pictorial panels across a page and concerning a continuous character or set of characters, whose thoughts and dialogues are indicated by means of "balloons" containing written speech. "Doonesbury," launched today on Slate magazine. Audible.com is the leading retailer of audiobooks, audio editions of newspapers, periodicals and public radio programs for download over the Internet and mobile listening. "I'm very pleased to be working with Audible.com on the new Doonesbury site," said Doonesbury's creator, Garry Trudeau Garretson Beekman Trudeau (born July 21, 1948, in New York City) is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip. Background and education Garry Trudeau is the great-grandson of Dr. . "I think Audible.com deserves the accolades it receives for being one of the Web's premier information and entertainment services. I think Doonesbury readers will also appreciate the literate listening experience Audible offers. I look forward to a long business and creative partnership." "Audible listeners and Doonesbury readers share a thoughtful, literate, and informed relationship to our culture and our times, and we expect great things from this partnership with Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury, and our long-time partners at Microsoft and Slate" said Donald Katz, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Audible, Inc. Slate, known for providing award-winning witty and insightful commentary on politics and culture, has been providing editorial cartoons for the past two years from over 100 cartoonists. Audible.com will be promoted along with daily "Doonesbury" comic strips
Noun an unofficial poll or vote taken to find out the opinion of a group or the public on some issue Noun 1. , "GBT's FAQs," and a 12-month searchable strip archive. Other site features that Audible.com is sponsoring include Doonesbury puzzles, the Castmaster trivia quiz, and a cryptic "Ask Duke" feature. Slate has more than five million unique readers per month. 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 New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of 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 U.S. monthly magazine interpreting scientific developments to lay readers. It was founded in 1845 as a newspaper describing new inventions. By 1853 its circulation had reached 30,000 and it was reporting on various sciences, such as astronomy and 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 Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, best known as Mary Higgins Clark, (b December 24, 1927 in the Bronx, New York) is an American author of suspense novels. , 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 All Things Considered (ATC) is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. It was the first news program on the network, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets. , Car Talk, Fresh Air and This American Life This American Life (TAL) is a weekly hour-long radio program produced by Chicago Public Radio. It is distributed by Public Radio International and is also available as a free weekly podcast. , and original shows such as RobinWilliams@audible.com. 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(TM) 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 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., Handspring, Hewlett-Packard Company, Microsoft Corporation, Palm, Inc., Royal Philips Electronics, RealNetworks, Inc., Sony Electronics, Texas Instruments and VoiceAge Corp. Audible, www.audible.com, and AudibleReady are registered trademarks of Audible, Inc.; AudibleListener and Otis are 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. |
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