Casio EM-500 Pocket PC Available At Audible.com for Special $259 Price
BusinessWire, 02/14/2001 07:21
WAYNE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2001-- More than $300 Off Retail Prices of AudibleReady(TM) Casio Cassiopeia EM-500 with Free 24MB External Storage Card Included; Offer in Conjunction with AudibleListener(TM) Monthly Flat-Rate Membership Plan
Audible, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBL), the leading provider of Internet-delivered spoken audio (www.audible.com(TM)) for computer-based listening or mobile playback on AudibleReady PC-based portable digital audio players, announced today the availability of the Casio Cassiopeia EM-500 for purchase directly from audible.com.
The Cassiopeia EM-500 Pocket PC is a leading personal digital assistant that also acts as a go-anywhere digital audio player, easily storing four hours of Audible's digital audio on internal RAM and up to fourteen more hours on the free CompactFlash(TM) memory card that is included with the purchase of a Cassiopeia EM-500 from audible.com.
Audible.com is offering the Casio Cassiopeia EM-500 and 24MB external memory card for $259, after a $100 rebate from Casio, Inc. This price is available in association with user participation in twelve months of Audible(R)'s LightListener(TM) flat-rate monthly membership plan.
"Audible continually works to improve the options for mobile listening to our downloadable audio," said Foy Sperring, vice president and general manager of audible.com. "We are pleased to deepen our strategic relationship with Casio and to offer this great Pocket PC for a terrific price at audible.com. Now an individual can weigh the advantages between three outstanding devices from Audible and choose the one that best fits his or her lifestyle."
The LightListener membership plan costs $12.95 per month and allows the user to download any two audiobooks from Audible's industry leading collection of over 7,500 downloadable audiobook titles and more than 28,000 hours of digital audio content. This AudibleListener membership plan, one of three, offers a savings of at least 75% off the average retail price for the same content purchased as standard audiobooks on tape.
About Audible.com:
Audible.com features daily selected audio content from The Wall Street Journal and daily digests of The New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, Los Angeles Times, and Slate -- all available on subscription basis in time for the morning drive to work each day -- as well as The Economist, The Industry Standard, Forbes, Harvard Business Review and Scientific American. The site also offers a powerful collection of audiobook best sellers and classics by authors such as Stephen King, John Grisham, Frank McCourt, Jon Krakauer, Scott Adams, Mary Higgins Clark, James Redfield, James Patterson, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and Jane Austen. There are also speeches, lectures, language lessons, and on-demand radio programs including Marketplace, All Things Considered, Car Talk, Fresh Air and This American Life. All of the programs at audible.com are available for PC-based playback and on-the-go listening using numerous AudibleReady(TM) portable digital audio players offered by leading consumer electronics and computer manufacturers.
About Audible, Inc.:
Audible(R) (www.audible.com) is the Internet's largest, most diverse provider of premium spoken audio services for content download or playback on personal computers or AudibleReady(TM) mobile devices. Audible has more than 28,000 hours of audio programs and 160 content partners that include leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, magazine and newspaper publishers and business information providers. Audible.com is Amazon.com's (www.amazon.com) exclusive provider of spoken word products for downloading or streaming via the Web. Additionally, the Company is strategically aligned with Random House, Inc., to pioneer the first-ever imprint to produce spoken word content specifically suited for digital distribution, Random House Audible. Among the Company's key business partners are Casio Inc., Compaq Computer Corporation, SONICblue Incorporated's Rio Audio Group, Microsoft Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, RealNetworks, Inc., Texas Instruments and VoiceAge Corp.
Audible is a registered trademark of Audible, Inc.; AudibleReady, www.audible.com, AudibleListener and LightListener are trademarks of Audible, Inc.
This press release contains information about Audible, Inc. that is not historical fact and may be deemed to contain forward-looking statements about the company. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in any forward-looking statements as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, Audible's limited operating history, history of losses, uncertain market for its services, and its inability to license or produce compelling audio content and other risks and uncertainties detailed in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
CONTACT: Audible, Inc.
Daniel Scheffey, 973/837-2784
dscheffey@audible.com
or
Jonathan Korzen, 973/837-2718
jkorzen@audible.com
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