Audible.com and Muze Announce New Service Enabling Online Booksellers and E-Commerce Portals to Expand Product Offerings

Market Wire, October, 2004

Muze, Inc.®, the leading provider of retailing services and entertainment information, and Audible, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBL), the leading provider of digitally delivered spoken word audio, today announced an agreement to match Audible.com's® downloadable audiobooks to related MuzeBooks(TM) content, enabling new and existing MuzeBooks clients to easily integrate the Audible service into their online bookselling and e-commerce portal environments.

Audible.com's platform gives consumers the ability to download audiobooks to devices such as the Apple iPod(TM) and other Audible ready digital audio players. The integration of these two services gives online booksellers who use MuzeBooks an easy way to make approximately 6,000 audio book titles available on their Website. MuzeBooks, already the most comprehensive book product database available, is further enhanced by this service. Muze continues to strive to find effective ways for customers to stay agile in the emerging digital product marketplace.

"Muze has been empowering retailers with compelling, wide-ranging entertainment product information for over a decade," said Paul Zullo, founder and CEO of Muze. "Our relationship with Audible.com creates a powerful resource and enables booksellers to provide comprehensive information to their customers, allowing them to make educated decisions about the titles they purchase."

"Audible is constantly looking for new and innovative ways to give customers access to our broad array of audiobook titles," said Donald Katz, Chairman and CEO of Audible, Inc. "Our relationship with Muze allows us to reach new potential customers by offering them access to complete product information through their favorite retailers."

MuzeBooks offers over five million titles in an accurate, well-organized and flexible database. The easy to navigate format is broken into thousands of finite categories. In addition to valuable editorial information, MuzeBooks also provides pricing and availability information as well as dimension and weight data. It has a back file of over one million cover images. MuzeBooks content is created by publishing professionals with backgrounds in writing, book retailing, and library science.

About Muze Inc.:

Muze is the leading source of entertainment product information for music, books, films, and games. Since 1991 Muze has provided businesses with the most comprehensive and accurate entertainment content designed to help their customers make informed purchasing decisions. Muze content drives commerce by providing customers with detailed information about entertainment products, turning browsers into buyers. More than 250 companies rely on Muze's rich entertainment content to sell their products. In fact, Muze is the backbone of online commerce for major players in the entertainment retail business including Yahoo!, America Online, Tower Records, and BestBuy. Muze product information also drives commerce by providing in-store solutions for companies such as Virgin Megastores, Transworld Entertainment, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Hastings and others. Muze is based in New York City. To learn more about Muze, please visit www.muze.com

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® portable digital audio players offered by leading consumer electronics and computer manufacturers.

About Audible, Inc.:

Audible® (www.audible.com) is the Internet's leading premium spoken audio source. Content from Audible is downloaded and played back on personal computers, CDs, or AudibleReady® computer-based mobile devices. Audible has more than 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., Creative Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company, Microsoft Corporation, palmOne, Inc., PhatNoise Inc., RealNetworks, Inc., Rio Audio, Roxio, Inc., Sony Electronics, Texas Instruments Inc., and VoiceAge Corporation.

 

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