Audible and Logo Announce Exclusive Relationship with Launch of Logo Boutique
“A Wolf at the Table,” by Augusten Burroughs
marks the launch of exclusive Logo-branded audiobook boutique at Audible.com
NEW YORK – April 30, 2008 – The leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment, Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Logo, a division of Viacom Inc.’s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks, today announced a broad collaboration, which includes a new Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) audiobook boutique, curated by Logo, available at Audible.com. Logo’s constellation of online properties will promote the new Logo boutique at www.audible.com/logo, and offer audio selections from new LGBT titles at the OutFirst section at LOGOonline.
As part of the launch of the new service today, Audible and Logo announced the availability of a exclusive “first listen” of a selection from Augusten Burroughs’s new “A Wolf at the Table.” This selection will be streamed on the OutFirst site at LOGOonline, with the full audiobook available for download starting today at the Logo boutique at www.audible.com/logo
Logo, which is the leading curator and aggregator of LGBT entertainment on-air and online, will recommend and select audiobook titles at the Logo boutique from prominent, new and cutting edge authors, including E. Lynn Harris, Patricia Cornwell, Miranda July and Christopher Rice. Logo’s OutFirst website at LOGOonline will feature hand picked audio selections from the Logo boutique and special bonus content, such as interviews between featured authors and Logo’s editorial team.
“This new partnership will bring the LGBT audience closer to authors that speak directly to them,” said Lisa Sherman, executive vice president and general manager, Logo. “We’re thrilled to give the greatest LGBT writers a powerful new stage to tell their stories.”
“For entertainment-loving, MP3-carrying people in the LGBT community, life is about to change,” said Beth Anderson, executive vice president and publisher, Audible, Inc. “Now, they’ll find a new way to discover new authors and books and to revisit old favorites. And for all the time-stretched multitaskers in the community, they’ll see that downloading is a new way to put time back into their lives as they listen to great books, anytime and anywhere.”
This relationship represents an important fusion between the nation’s leading provider of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word audio content and the leading creator and curator of LGBT entertainment. Logo will promote the new Logo Boutique online at Logo’s portfolio of websites, including LOGOonline.com, AfterEllen.com, AfterElton.com, 365gay.com, Downelink.com and NewNowNext.com.
About Audible Inc.
Audible (www.audible.com) is the leader in spoken audio information and entertainment on the Internet. Content from Audible is downloaded and played back on personal computers, CDs, or AudibleReady computer-based and wireless mobile devices. Audible has over 40,000 audio programs from more than 470 content partners that include leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business information providers. Audible is the preeminent provider of spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes Store. Audible, Audible.com, AudibleListener, AudibleReady and AudibleKids are trademarks of Audible, Inc. or its affiliates. Other product or service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as books, movies, music & games, digital downloads, electronics & computers, home & garden, toys, kids & baby, grocery, apparel, shoes & jewelry, health & beauty, sports & outdoors, and tools, auto & industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), and Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, and the Joyo Amazon websites at www.joyo.cn and www.amazon.cn.
As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management’s expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, significant amount of indebtedness, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com’s financial results is included in Amazon.com’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, and subsequent filings.
About Logo
Logo is the ad-supported network targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) viewers, launched by MTV Networks. The network launched June 30, 2005, with more than one thousand hours of content and has approximately 30 million subscribers across the United States. Logo provides LGBT audiences with a place where they can see themselves through a mix of original and acquired entertainment programming that is authentic, smart and inclusive. Logo joins Viacom’s roster of popular and highly targeted cable networks which include MTV, Comedy Central, BET and Spike TV.
ABOUT MTV Networks
MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is one of the world’s leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. MTV Networks, with more than 120 channels worldwide, owns and operates the following television programming services – MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, VH1, mtvU, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN, VH1 CLASSIC, LOGO, MTVN INTERNATIONAL, and THE DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 13 digital services, with all of these networks trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks connects with its audiences through its robust consumer products businesses and its more than 100 interactive properties worldwide, including online, broadband, wireless, and interactive television services can be seen worldwide.
CONTACTS:
Steven Fisher
Logo Communications and Public Affairs
212-654-3035
steven.fisher@logostaff.com
Ashok Sinha
Logo Communications and Public Affairs
212-654-3042
ashok.sinha@logostaff.com
James Pearson
Audible.com
973-820-0474
jpearson@audible.com
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