President Clinton's My Life Available on Audible.com at 3:01am EDT -12:01am PDT- June 22nd
WAYNE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2004--Audible, Inc., (OTC BB: ADBLD), the leading provider of digitally delivered spoken word audio, announced that former President Bill Clinton's long-awaited autobiography My Life will be available for download at 3:01am EDT (12:01am in the Pacific time zone) through Audible.com.
The abridged, 6-1/2 hour version of My Life published by Random House Audio is read in its entirety by Bill Clinton and will have a retail price of $22.95 at Audible. Members of the AudibleListener flat-rate plan can get My Life at a significant discount from the $22.95 retail price. The unabridged 50-hour version of My Life will be made available in two parts in July and August. Bill Clinton will read the prologue and epilogue of the unabridged audiobook, and the rest will be read by Michael Beck.
"Downloading My Life from Audible is the most convenient way to get your hands on what will be the hottest memoir this summer," said Beth Anderson, Vice President and Publisher, Audible, Inc. "You can simply download, transfer to your iPod, and head to the beach without anything to weigh you down," she added.
Audible is extending a special offer to AOL members for the audio download of My Life. In addition to My Life, Audible registrants may obtain the free audio download of Bill Clinton's speech made at the National Book Exposition on June 3, 2004, also at www.audible.com/billclinton.
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 Corp.
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