Audible.com Relaunches Industry-leading Subscription Center.Business Editors WAYNE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2001 Scheduled Downloads of Over 45 Audio Newspapers, Magazines, Time-Shifted Radio Shows and Original Content Now More Accessible at www.audible.com/subscriptions Audible, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ADBL ADBL Agricultural Development Bank Limited (Nepal) ) today announced the redesign and relaunch of its Subscription Center at www.audible.com/subscriptions. All programs that are available from Audible(R) on a subscription basis can be viewed on one page, and are also organized into categories by media (newspapers, radio & magazines) as well as genre (news & current events, business & finance, culture & entertainment, science & technology). The number of subscriptions that Audible offers has grown from one to more than 45 over the course of two years, necessitating the redesign and relaunch of the Subscription Center. Audible is the leading provider of Internet-delivered spoken audio (www.audible.com(R)) for computer-based listening or mobile playback on AudibleReady(TM) PC-based portable digital audio players. Audible's industry-leading subscription service enables listeners to receive essential news, business audio, brand name entertainment and time-shifted radio programming through automated and regularly recurring downloads over the Internet. "One of the transforming experiences we provide to our listeners every day is the subscription service," stated Foy Sperring, vice president and general manager of audible.com. "Waking up in the morning and having that day's Wall Street Journal or 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 audio digest already on my AudibleReady player for listening while I drive to work gives me more time during the day to be productive, and I say this not as Audible's vice president, but a customer." Audible.com's Subscription Center features daily selected audio content from The Wall Street Journal and daily digests of The New York Times, San Jose Mercury News The San Jose Mercury News is the major daily newspaper in San Jose, California and Silicon Valley. The paper is owned by MediaNews Group. Its headquarters and printing plant are located in North San Jose next to the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880). , Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , The Industry Standard and Slate-- all available in time for the morning drive to work each day-- as well as weekly, bi-weekly or monthly audio editions of The Economist, 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 C-SPAN. Leading public broadcasting public broadcasting: see broadcasting. programs such as Marketplace, Nightly Business Report Nightly Business Report is a financial news television program that is broadcast live, weekday evenings on most of the public television stations in the United States. Frequently abbreviated to NBR, the show is produced by public television station WPBT-TV in Miami, Florida, and , 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. are also available. All of the programs at the Subscription Center are available for automated download and transfer to numerous AudibleReady portable digital audio players for on-the-go listening. 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 or playback on personal computers or AudibleReady(TM) PC-based mobile devices. Audible has more than 28,000 hours of audio programs and 160 content partners that include leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, 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 Casio Inc., Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. , Microsoft Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, RealNetworks, Inc., SONICblue Incorporated's Rio Audio Group, Texas Instruments and VoiceAge Corp. Audible and www.audible.com are registered trademarks of Audible, Inc.; AudibleReady is a trademark of Audible, Inc. and all are part of the family of Audible, Inc. trademarks. 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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