Audible Offers Free Audio Downloads of President George W. Bush's Sec

Audible Offers Free Audio Downloads of President George W. Bush's Second Inaugural Address

    Business Editors

    WAYNE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 20, 2005--

Free Audio Downloads of Presidential Inaugural Addresses Since 1933 Also Available at www.audible.com/inauguration2005
    Audible, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBL), the leading provider of digitally delivered spoken word audio, today announced that President George W. Bush's second inaugural address is available as a free audio download at www.audible.com/inauguration2005.
    Available through Audible's content partner C-SPAN, the second inaugural address of President Bush is a free audio download available for playback on all AudibleReady(R) personal computers, portable digital audio players, and personal digital assistants. All visitors to www.audible.com/inauguration2005 can create a free account, download, and transfer audio to any AudibleReady mobile device (www.audible.com/devices), or even burn standard audio CDs for playback away from the computer. Free audio streams are also available. President Bush's second inaugural address is also available for free at Apple's iTunes Music Store.
    In addition to President Bush's second inaugural address, listeners can download free audio of historic inaugural addresses from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural address in 1933 up to George W. Bush's first address in 2001, also available to Audible from C-SPAN.

    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 60,000 hours of audio programs from more than 180 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., Bertelsmann AG, Creative Labs, Holtzbrinck Networxs, 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, 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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CONTACT: Audible, Inc. Jonathan Korzen, 973-837-2718 jkorzen@audible.com

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