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POD PERSON
Over the last year Ricky Gervais has given himself a new nickname: The Podfather.
That's because The Ricky Gervais Show, his hilarious weekly online audio program,
claims to be the most downloaded podcast on the Internet, with about 8 million downloads
to date, he says. With a third season launching and past shows available for purchase
at audible.com, Gervais talked about his many projects but especially The Ricky Gervais Show.
Gary Sussman
Entertainment Weekly
August 18, 2006
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NOW HEAR THIS
For the 97 million or commuters on the road each workday - add to that the millions of others
on planes, trains, and mass transit - catching up on reading just got easier. With a couple
of mouse clicks, Audible.com zaps your favorite books, magazines, and newspapers from its
digital bookstore straight to your computer... With a dizzying array of titles, from Homer's
The Iliad and The Odyssey to The Da Vinci Code (and more than 32,000 audiobooks, magazines,
and newspapers), Audible has become the alpha dog in the nascent world of downloadable audiobooks.
Ellise Pierce
Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine
June 2006
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HAVE AN AUDIBLE SUMMER
Flash-based MP3 players can be a fun and inexpensive way to enjoy your digital music on the go.
But there's more than just music out there. Why not keep your brain informed, as well as entertained,
with a good audiobook from Audible.com ? Students can get a jump start on summer reading (Hemingway,
Dickens, and Austen titles are all available), grads can keep that learning momentum going so their
brains don't turn to mush (think Chomsky or Colbert), and Dads can listen to radio favorites (This
American Life, Fresh Air)... Being able to listen to books on your MP3 player makes a nice change from
rocking to the latest hits.
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AUDIBLE CRANKS IT UP
This is a story about the power of words, and about an entrepreneur named Donald Katz who stands as a
podium in a conference hall... telling a gathering of podcasters that they are in the vanguard of a
major cultural transformation - one he saw coming 11 years ago when he founded his company, Audible -
in which words as a marketable commodity are being liberated from the prison of printed text and are
finally free to speak with the music of the human voice, as they did for millennia before Gutenberg.
Paul Keegan
Business 2.0
March 2006
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Where On the Web: Let your computer read you a story
Reading to a child is one of the great joys of parenthood -- except when you're forced to read the same book a hundred
times. "I'm a mother, not a machine!"... If you want a good bedtime story for yourself -- like a creepy Stephen King novel or a
new best seller -- check out Audible.com. Short descriptions under each title give the basic storyline and the audio length.
Christina Wood
USA Weekend Sunday Magazine
August 22, 2004
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An Ear for Downloads
For years, the best-seller list on Audible, a Web merchant that sells downloadable audio books and periodicals, was a
predictable affair. You had your high-end thrillers such as "The Da Vinci Code," the hot self-help and business how-to tomes of
the moment, and the odd chunk of Tom Clancy and Stephen King. Those authors have had some curious bedmates lately, however, sharing
the list with names such as Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld. With a rapidly growing customer base, major partners such as Apple
Computer, and a continuing decrease in the amount of time the average person has for reading, CEO Donald Katz is feeling pretty good now.
David Becker
CNet News.com
August 20, 2004
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Audible is Where Readers Could be Headed
Busy people with scant time for reading can listen to audio editions of Scientific American,
Bill Clinton's book MY LIFE, or even The Wall Street Journal through AudibleReady portable audio players. Audible
(ADBL) is the web's largest provider of the spoken word for download and playback -- on PCs, CDs, or portable audio players.
Gene Marcial
BusinessWeek Magazine
July 30, 2004
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Audible's Sound Strategy
Audible did not end in dot-com oblivion. Not only did Audible survive, it is thriving. Revenues were $19.3 million
last year, and the company has been profitable for the last two quarters.
How did Audible turn things around? It waited. While the service always sounded good, adoption of the technology it
relied upon - namely, portable audio players and broadband Internet connections - wasn't always up to speed.
Jonny Thaw
The Red Herring
July 9, 2004
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Want a best seller for your iPod?
Try "Anna Karenina." Now you can download the classic to listen to on your computer, PDA or MP3 player at
Audible.com. The first provider of spoken-word downloads, Audible offers 22,000 audio titles, including newspapers,
magazines and radio programs. Subscribers to its audio editions of The New York Times or Wall Street Journal can even program
the site to automatically burn or upload their deliveries first thing in the morning.
Anne Taulane
Newsweek Magazine
July 7, 2004
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"Dot-Com Survivor: Demand for Spoken Books Keep Audible on the Web Publishers credit Audible with inventing a method that protects the rights of authors and has avoided the copyright quagmire that file-sharing programs like Napster brought to the music recording industry."
Martha McKay
The Bergen Record
December 2, 2003
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"One of the most exciting -- and least-hyped -- benefits of the digital music era is the explosion in audiobooks you can buy at nifty discounts online. Buying an unabridged book on tape through traditional channels can mean spending up to $50 on a single title. But you can buy more than 20,000 spoken-word titles on industry leader Audible.com's site from about $7 to $35."
Heather Newman
Detroit Free Press
November 16, 2003
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"Lots of wireless phones have cameras these days. But how many also have a keyboard for typing e-mail, access to e-mail accounts, a Web browser, a player that handles not only music but also recorded books from Audible.com...?"
Stephen H. Wildstrom
Business Week
November 10, 2003
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"Audible Service Could Teach Music Industry a Lesson
While the music industry has struggled with how to work with the Internet, initially denying it was even a threat and keeping it at arm's length for years, Audible has been using digital downloading to reach new audiences and to deliver the wares of the audio book industry more efficiently and less expensively."
Lisa Napoli
The New York Times
October 20, 2003
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Sanity Savers for Moms: Read with your ears
Listen to a best-selling novel or your favorite newspaper while carpooling. For as little as $15 per month, Audible.com grants you access to a library of books, magazines and papers that you can burn onto a CD or download to your iPod. No more pretending at book club meetings!"
Self
October, 2003
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Best Consumer Web Service and Editor's Pick, CNet.com
CNet is the trusted source of information for millions of technology consumers around the world. Each year CNet's Editors select their "Top 100 Products" and in April 2003 Audible.com was chosen as the Best Consumer Web Service. Previously, CNet.com's editors had selected Audible as an Editor's Pick and given the site a ranking of 9 out of a possible 10.
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One of the Best Fifty Web Sites, PC World Magazine
The August 2002 issue of PC World magazine named Audible.com one of their Top 50 Web sites, along side industry heavyweights Yahoo!, Google, and eBay, among others. Citing Audible's value, PC World editors stated: "Compare Audible's prices with what you would have to pay for Grisham's audio book from anyone else, and the message is loud and clear: Bookworms are sure to love Audible.com.”
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| Winner, Best Audio Drama: The Guys by Anne Nelson, published by Random House Audible. The Audie Awards, honoring excellence in audio publishing, were presented in 23 categories the evening of May 6rd, 2003, in Los Angeles. Finalists were selected by a panel of over 100 judges representing all areas of the audiobook world.
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