About Audible, Inc.
Audible, Inc. is the leading provider of spoken entertainment
and information on the Internet. Audible specializes in the spoken
experience, providing digital audio editions of books, newspapers
and magazines, original programming, and TV and radio subscriptions.
Consumers shop, purchase, and download audio content from
www.audible.com (United States), directly to personal computers
for listening in a variety of ways. Most of their customers download
audio to their PCs and Macs and then transfer the audio to MP3
players, personal digital assistants (PDAs), or to smart mobile
devices (SMDs) for listening on the go. Others transfer, or "burn,"
the content to audio CDs, while some customers simply listen at
their computers or through a digital home entertainment network.
Audible customers can also have their Audible content wirelessly
delivered to their smart mobile devices every day, even while they
are asleep, taking the computer out of the equation.
At
audible.com, customers can select from nearly 100,000 hours of
audio content, or more than 30,000 different programs. The selection
of audio in our stores ranges from more than 12,000 audiobooks and
performances, to audio editions of national periodicals such as The
New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The New Yorker, The
Atlantic Monthly and Scientific American; to radio and TV
programming such as Fresh Air, Charlie Rose, Car Talk, Marketplace,
The Bob Edwards Show, Opie & Anthony, This American Life, and The
Ricky Gervais Show. Language instruction, personal development,
stand-up comedy, children's audio, study guides, historic speeches
and readings, fiction, business, mystery, and romance are also
categories of listening available to our customers.