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Audible Adds Four New Radio Programs from American Public Media
WAYNE, N.J. --(Business Wire)-- July 9, 2004 -- SOUND MONEY, SPEAKING OF FAITH, THE SPLENDID TABLE, and AMERICAN RADIOWORKS Now at Audible's Audio Subscription Center, www.audible.com/subscriptions
Audible, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBL), the leading provider of digitally delivered spoken word audio, today announced the availability of four public radio shows from American Public Media, a division of long-time Audible partner Minnesota Public Radio. SOUND MONEY(R), SPEAKING OF FAITH(R), and THE SPLENDID TABLE(R) will all be available for both subscription and individual show purchase. Audible(R) is also adding 35 radio documentaries from the award-winning AMERICAN RADIOWORKS(R), the national documentary unit of American Public Media. Audible has been distributing programs from American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio since 2000 - Garrison Keillor's monologues, THE NEWS FROM LAKE WOBEGON(R) from A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION(R), and MARKETPLACE(R).
"Audible is proud of our deep and mutually-beneficial relationship with Minnesota Public Radio, and now their new national production and distribution division, American Public Media," said Donald R. Katz, Chairman and CEO, Audible, Inc. "Minnesota Public Radio has been a visionary public radio producer, allowing Audible to bring their wonderful programming to listeners worldwide."
"Audible is part of the changing ways people are listening to public radio," said Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media Chief Operating Officer Jon McTaggart. "We are pleased that their technology offers us a way to make our programs accessible to a broader audience."
SOUND MONEY is a weekly hour-long program about personal finance. Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, SOUND MONEY looks at the way the week's major national and international stories will hit your wallet. Ryssdal and Senior Economics Editor Chris Farrell bring to weekly listeners the style, accessible delivery, and expertise in business and economic coverage of American Public Media's popular daily business program MARKETPLACE.
SPEAKING OF FAITH, hosted by journalist and theologian Krista Tippett, is a weekly series of programs dedicated to exploring topics and perspectives of faith. SPEAKING OF FAITH does not always have "religion" itself as a subject. Week after week, it grapples with themes of American life - asking how perspectives of faith might distinctively inform and illuminate our public reflection, from how nations wage war to how families raise their children.
THE SPLENDID TABLE is a weekly hour-long program about food, cooking, and culture. More than a cooking program, THE SPLENDID TABLE is about meals as a gathering place, classic dishes and new discoveries, travel and other cultures, feeding a family on the run, and lots more. Host Lynne Rossetto Kasper is a widely recognized leader in the food community, and her list of contributors to THE SPLENDID TABLE is a veritable who's who of well-known food authorities. Regular guests include Jane and Michael Stern, authors of Gourmet magazine's "Two For The Road" column.
AMERICAN RADIOWORKS (ARW) is American Public Media's award-winning national documentary unit. Audible will make available 35 ARW documentaries on a range of national and international political and social issues including the Korean War's legacy, secret White House tape recordings, genocide in Rwanda and the Kosovo conflict.
Twelve-month subscriptions to each of the weekly programs are available for $44.95, one-month subscriptions cost $9.95, and individual episodes can be had for $3.95. Subscriptions to each program can also be had as part of one of Audible's flat-rate monthly membership clubs, BasicListener(R); for $14.95 per month the listener can select a one-month subscription and any one audiobook from the 6,000 available at audible.com. AMERICAN RADIOWORKS documentaries can be purchased for $7.95 each and can also be included as part of an AudibleListener(R) membership.
About Audible.com:
Audible.com, recently named the best consumer Web service by CNet.com, and one of the "Best of Today's Web" by PC World 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, Janet Evanovich, 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(R) 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 48,000 hours of audio programs from more than 165 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., Creative Labs, Gateway, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Microsoft Corporation, palmOne, Inc., PhatNoise Inc., RealNetworks, Inc., Rio Audio, Roxio, Inc., Sony Electronics, Texas Instruments Inc., and VoiceAge Corporation.
Audible, www.audible.com, AudibleListener, BasicListener 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.
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