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Former President Bill Clinton's First Public Speech About His Autobiography Now Available as a Free Audio Download

Former President Speaks About Highly Anticipated Memoir, My Life

WAYNE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2004--Audible, Inc. (OTC BB:ADBL), the leading provider of digitally delivered spoken word audio, today announced that it is offering free audio downloads of President Bill Clinton's June 3 keynote speech at Book Expo America. President Clinton spoke to an audience eager to hear his comments about the memoir My Life to be published in print by Alfred A. Knopf and in audio by Random House Audio on June 22. Audible.com(R) will also offer both abridged and unabridged audiobook downloads of My Life at that time. Content partner C-SPAN has made the audio recording of this speech available to Audible(R).
"This audio captures President Clinton's first public comments about his memoir and his writing process," said Beth Anderson, Vice President and Publisher, Audible, Inc. "We will continue to give our regular listeners and anyone else who registers at audible.com free audio downloads drawn from seminal public events in their entirety. We welcome visitors to our site so that they may, as The New York Times recently described our efforts, '...experience "living history" on MP3 players.'"

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 46,000 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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Contacts


Audible, Inc.
Jonathan Korzen, 973-837-2718
jkorzen@audible.com

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