Audio Downloads of CHARLIE ROSE Now Available from Audible; Exclusive Subscriptions to Award-Winning Interview Program at www.audible.com/charlierose

Business Wire, Oct 11, 2004

WAYNE, N.J. & NEW YORK -- Charlie Rose and Audible, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBL), the leading provider of digitally delivered spoken word audio, today announced a content and co-marketing partnership in which subscriptions and individual episodes of CHARLIE ROSE can be bought online at www.audible.com/charlierose, downloaded over the Internet, and played wherever and whenever it is convenient for the listener. All of Audible's(R) 22,000 audio titles can be played on Apple(R) iPod portable digital audio players and personal digital assistants from palmOne, Hewlett-Packard, and other leading device manufacturers.

Charlie Rose and his guests from the worlds of politics, culture, business, and entertainment bring even more great voices to audible.com, which currently offers more than 55,000 hours of downloadable audio by leading thinkers, writers, and performers. An initial selection of archived episodes of CHARLIE ROSE is available at Audible, and over time a full roster of past shows will be added. Individual episodes are available at Audible's distribution partner, the Apple(R) iTunes Music Store.

"Audible's spoken word audio service is a great fit for CHARLIE ROSE and our mission to increase access to the program for interested audiences around the world," stated Charlie Rose. "Many people complain that technology adds to the hectic nature of their lives, but the Audible Service brilliantly uses technology to actually 'reclaim' time during one's busy day for thought, reflection, and enjoyment of the spoken word."

"We are delighted to welcome CHARLIE ROSE to the Audible family of premium spoken word providers," added Brian Fielding, EVP Content, Audible, Inc. "The addition of CHARLIE ROSE is a wonderful example of how Audible's spoken word subscription service is able to successfully repurpose stellar television-based programming for the global audience."

About CHARLIE ROSE:

Emmy award winning journalist Charlie Rose has been praised as "one of America's premier interviewers." He is the host of CHARLIE ROSE, the nightly PBS program that engages America's best thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders, scientists, and other newsmakers. USA Today calls Charlie Rose, "TV's most addictive talk show." New York Newsday says, "Charlie's show is the place to get engaging, literate conversation...Bluntly, he is the best interviewer around today."

Guests on the show include major international political figures and a mixture of renowned personalities from literature, theatre, film, dance, fashion, sports, science, medicine, and business. Guests have ranged from statesmen, Kofi Annan, Jacques Chirac, Vicente Fox, Manmohan Sing, Gerhard Schroeder, Ariel Sharon, Hosni Mubarak, Nelson Mandela, Lee KuanYew, Vaclav Havel, Mahathir Mohammad, and every American President since Lyndon Johnson, to Nobel laureates Toni Morrison, Desmond Tutu, Eric Kandel, to leaders in business like Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch and Warren Buffett. In the artistic arena, Rose's guests range from actors Tom Hanks and Nicole Kidman to musicians Bruce Springsteen and Yo-Yo Ma. His program serves as a window on cultural areas rarely seen on TV like architecture, painting, photography and classical music.

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 55,000 hours of audio programs from more than 175 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., Bertelsmann AG, Creative Labs, holtzbrinck networXs, Hewlett-Packard Company, Microsoft Corporation, palmOne, Inc., PhatNoise Inc., RealNetworks, Inc., Rio Audio, Roxio, Inc., Sony Electronics, Texas Instruments Inc., and VoiceAge Corporation.