Spinner.com Teams With Amazon.com; Premier Internet Music Site Offers Unique E-Commerce Experience in Association With Amazon.com

Business Wire, July 15, 1998

BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 1998--Spinner.com, the pioneering Internet music service, has joined the Associates program of leading online retailer Amazon.com as part of an extensive alliance.

Spinner.com is the newly re-named Internet music service that has been bitcasting music over the Web for more than two years as TheDJ.com.

The initial agreement provides for Spinner.com to prominently feature a "Buy This CD at Amazon.com" link throughout its popular audio player products. More than two million music lovers rely on Spinner.com for genre-specific, interruption-free music. These online audiophiles can now instantly purchase CDs through Amazon.com whenever they hear the music they crave on Spinner.com.

"Amazon.com's music store offers unique new ways for consumers to discover and buy music," said Shawn Haynes, group product manager, Amazon.com. "Working with Spinner.com complements our services by giving Web users the opportunity to seamlessly integrate their music listening with online shopping."

Spinner.com pleases every musical palate by delivering more than 100 highly differentiated music channels, drawing a finely segmented mass audience and 20 million page views per month. Amazon.com will be the exclusive music fulfillment source for Spinner.com, with Spinner.com earning a percentage of all revenue from music, book and video sales.

The agreement also includes a substantial rich media advertising buy (in-stream audio advertising and audio-enhanced banners) on Spinner.com.

"Millions of listeners have embraced our Internet music service," said Josh Felser, president of Spinner.com. "Combining our music with Amazon.com's unparalleled online retailing environment provides our audience with the best of both worlds. We know this association will enable Spinner.com to more effectively sell music across our Web site."

About Spinner.com

Spinner.com (formerly TheDJ.com) is the premier Internet music service, delivering more than 100,000 digitized songs in more than 100 highly specialized music channels. Covering the genres of Rock, Oldies, Themes, TopHits, MoodFood, Classical, Jazz&Blues, Urban&Dance, Country&Folk and World&New Age, Spinner.com reaches more than 2 million listeners worldwide.

Based in Silicon Valley, Spinner.com couples the power of the Internet with advanced digital audio technology to raise entertainment to a new octave. The Spinner.com music players -- the Web-based Spinner and the stand-alone Internet application Spinner Plus -- display song information as music is played, while providing dynamic links that enable online purchases and real-time listener feedback.

The strength of these features has fostered partnerships with industry leaders including RealNetworks, Amazon.com, @Home Network, GameSpot, LAUNCH Media, and The Ultimate Band List (UBL), as well as more than 100 record labels. Visit Spinner.com at www.spinner.com.

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com Inc. is Earth's biggest book and music store. Amazon.com offers a catalog of more than 3 million book, music, and other titles, plus easy-to-use search and browse features, e-mail services, personalized shopping services, secure Web-based credit card payment, and direct shipping to customers.

Amazon.com has virtually unlimited online shelf space and offers customers a vast selection through an efficient search-and-retrieval interface, as well as streamlined ordering through 1-Click(SM) technology. Amazon.com pioneered the concept of syndicated selling on the Internet and has more than 60,000 members in its Associates Program, including AOL.com, Yahoo!, Netscape, Excite, the AltaVista Search Service, @Home Network, and iVillage.

This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, Amazon.com's limited operating history, the unpredictability of its future revenues, and risks associated with capacity constraints, management of growth, and new business opportunities. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1997, and quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 1998, both filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Amazon.com, Earth's Biggest Bookstore, and 1-Click are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Amazon.com Inc. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

CONTACT: For Spinner.com

Amy Bonetti, 415/837-1900

amy@spinner.com

www.spinner.com

or

Amazon.com

Kay Dangaard, 206/694-2078

dangaard@amazon.com

www.amazon.com