Audible.com
Audible® is the Internet's largest, most diverse provider of premium spoken audio services for content download and playback on personal computers, CD or AudibleReady® 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 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.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 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™ portable digital audio players offered by leading consumer electronics and computer manufacturers.