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Articles about audible.com: November 23, 2008

Amazon makes move to acquire Audible.com

by Natesh Sood on Jan 31, 2008 at 10:55 AM

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Today, Amazon announced that they have bought out the popular digital download site Audible.com. Audible is best known for their wide variety of digital content such as digital audio books, newspapers and magazines, television, radio programs and original programming. Audible boasts over 80,000 media files and is sure to help Amazon on their quest to stand atop the digital model.

“Audible.com offers the best customer experience, the widest content selection and the broadest device compatibility in the industry,“ said Steve Kessel, Amazon.com’s senior vice president for worldwide digital media. “Working together, we can introduce more innovations and bring this format to an even wider audience.“

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