Audible (www.audible.com ), a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com located in Newark, NJ, is the Internet’s leading provider of spoken audio programming—including books of any genre, magazines, radio shows, daily newspapers, and more. Titles downloaded from Audible are compatible with hundreds of mobile devices, including the Apple® iPod®. Audible prides itself on providing listening experiences that enhance the commute, working out at the gym, or simply relaxing at home.

The position of audio editor for the Content Creation department requires one to have a good solid understanding of the technical aspects of manipulating digital audio as well as a complete understanding of hard disk recording and non linear editing. These skills are a requisite to learning the various intricacies of long form digital spoken word editing.

It is also imperative that the editor has a command of the English language and its grammatical construct beyond that of common usage. This combination of skills is most often found in those who have had experience in a communications or theatrical environment and a long standing involvement in the digital media world. The Audio Editor/Production Assistant will report to the Executive Producer in charge of post production.

Key Accountabilities:

·         Working closely with all Original Content Team members to fulfill production editing needs and goals;

·         Quality control of edited material;

·         Processing audio (EQ, noise reduction, etc.);

·         Assorted clerical/filing and organizational duties

·         Maintenance of production spreadsheets;

·         Assisting in the studio recording process;

Skills/Experience Requirements:

·         A minimum of two years in audio , television or radio production

·         Meticulous attention to detail, as well as strong organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects with competing deadlines

·         Knowledge of audio editing and hard-disk recording software, including ProTools & SoundForge and knowledge of the audio recording process

·         A solid background in fine editing of spoken word and dramatic programming

·         An  understanding of the audio drama culture and its requirements (sense of pacing, storytelling, rhythm)

·         Creative team player who understands the audio editing culture

·         Strong communication and interpersonal skills

·         A self-motivated performer

·         Excited to work in a very fast-paced creative environment  

Audible is an Equal Opportunity Employer. When contacting recruiter@audible.com, please include a cover letter with your resume.

Audible.com (a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com) is looking for a dynamic and motivated software engineer to join the Mobile Products team. As a member of the team you will have the opportunity to help build Audible’s Mobile Products.

If you are a sharp, experienced software engineer with a creative edge, strong problem-solving skills, a solid software development foundation and the desire to be an individual contributor to Audible’s next generation technology, we want to talk with you.  Joining our team provides the unique challenge and opportunity to write software that benefits many customers around the world.

This is an extremely challenging role that demands strong technical leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities:

• Working with business representatives to define requirements and developing technical specifications
• Architecting software solutions, determine current limitations and compatibilities between subsystems, selection of new concepts and methodology, development of major routines and utilities
• Communicating effectively to ensure that all business requirements are being assessed and addressed to ensure development projects meet or exceed performance targets
• Participating in all activities accordingly to ensure on time deliverables are met including day-to-day planning and coordination with testers, developers, project managers and business representatives
• Driving full life cycle product development
• Collaborating with business owners to solidify requirements
• Instilling best practices for software development and documentation and assuring designs meet requirements, deliver high quality work on tight schedules

Qualifications:

• 3+ years Safari and Web development experience with a demonstrable online website / application portfolio
• Additional skills include iPhone, J2ME, RIM, WinCE, Symbian, and Android development experience
• Mac/Cocoa, Core Java, C/C++ and audio and video development experience a plus
• BS or MS preferred in Computer Science plus  5+ years industry experience
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals
• Deftness at object-oriented design and systems architecture for mobile devices and wireless systems
• Solid coding practices including good design documentation, unit testing, peer code-reviews, and a preference for agile methods
• Robust project planning/execution skills including; estimating, scheduling and executing on committed schedules
• Excellent judgment, organizational and problem solving skills; technical, project and personnel
• Exceptional interpersonal communication skills; verbal, written, listening, including customer relationships
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Passion for building new mobile products in a fast paced, team-oriented environment 

Audible.com (a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com) is looking for a dynamic and motivated software engineer to join the Mobile Products team. As a member of the team you will have the opportunity to help build Audible’s Mobile Products.

If you are a sharp, experienced software engineer with a creative edge, strong problem-solving skills, a solid software development foundation and the desire to be an individual contributor to Audible’s next generation technology, we want to talk with you.  Joining our team provides the unique challenge and opportunity to write software that benefits many customers around the world.

This is an extremely challenging role that demands strong technical leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities:

• Working with business representatives to define requirements and developing technical specifications
• Architecting software solutions, determine current limitations and compatibilities between subsystems, selection of new concepts and methodology, development of major routines and utilities
• Communicating effectively to ensure that all business requirements are being assessed and addressed to ensure development projects meet or exceed performance targets
• Participating in all activities accordingly to ensure on time deliverables are met including day-to-day planning and coordination with testers, developers, project managers and business representatives
• Driving full life cycle product development
• Collaborating with business owners to solidify requirements
• Instilling best practices for software development and documentation and assuring designs meet requirements, deliver high quality work on tight schedules

Qualifications: 

• 5+ years Web and Java development experience with a demonstrable online website / application portfolio
• Additional skills include SOA / Services, Java, and C++ development experience
• UI, wireless, multimedia and e-commerce development experience a plus
• BS or MS preferred in Computer Science plus  7+ years industry experience
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals
• Deftness at object-oriented design and systems architecture for mobile devices and wireless systems
• Solid coding practices including good design documentation, unit testing, peer code-reviews, and a preference for agile methods
• Passion for building new mobile products in a fast paced, team-oriented environment
• Robust project planning/execution skills including; estimating, scheduling and executing on committed schedules
• Excellent judgment, organizational and problem solving skills; technical, project and personnel
• Exceptional interpersonal communication skills; verbal, written, listening, including customer relationships
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Passion for building new mobile products in a fast paced, team-oriented environment

Audible.com (a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com) is looking for a dynamic and motivated manager of software development to join the Web group. As a member of the team you will have the opportunity to help build Audible’s website and platform.

Description

Own the design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and delivery of secure large-scale customer-facing distributed software applications, systems, platforms, services or technologies.  Provide technical leadership and project management for development teams in all aspects of the software development lifecycle including hands-on software engineering using Object Oriented design, C/C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, Web Services, and SQL. Build, manage, and develop a team of engineers, provide mentoring, and manage resource allocation. Lead design reviews for engineers, and drive feedback on architecture and design issues. Participate in strategic planning to achieve technical and business objectives, and define technical direction. Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments. Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach. Report on status of development, quality, operations and system performance to management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field plus at least three years of experience in the job offered or related occupations of Software Engineer or Developer, Project Lead, or related.
• Experience in the job offered or related occupation must involve developing secure, large-scale customer-facing distributed applications using C++ or Java, Perl, Object Oriented design, Web Services, and SQL, Ruby, and leading development teams and projects throughout the complete software development lifecycle.

Audible (www.audible.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com located in Newark NJ, is the Internet’s leading provider of spoken audio programming – including books of any genre, magazines, radio shows, daily newspapers, and more. Titles downloaded from Audible are compatible with hundreds of mobile devices, including the Apple® iPod®. Audible prides itself on providing listening experiences that enhance the commute, working out at the gym, or simply relaxing at home.

Audible is seeking an innovative, self-motivated user experience designer to work on features and improvements to our customer-facing web properties and software applications.

Utilizing principles of usability, user-centered design, information architecture, and scalable and dynamic user interface design, this position will drive the User Interface (UI) and customer experience for highly strategic business initiatives.

The Sr. User Experience Designer will develop process flows, wireframes, mockups and page/ application designs to effectively communicate both high-level design strategies and detailed page designs/user interactions, and will provide thought leadership in architecting both short and long-term design vision for customer-facing, transactional web experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Design the UI architecture, interface, interaction flow and aesthetics of web applications and web sites
• Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, prototypes, visual mockups and graphic assets
• Art direct/ design the visual design of the web and software applications
• Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications
• Build upon and expand established style guides and UI patterns
• Present design work to product and executive teams for review and feedback
• Promote usability best practices
• Guide technical and business teams in user-centered design principles

Qualifications:
• At least 5 years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, user interface designer, information architect, or similar role
• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating related experience
• Experience working in a collaborative team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs.
• Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Familiarity with the technical considerations needed when designing for dynamic AJAX-based web 2.0 applications
• Visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups and style guides
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Visio, and Dreamweaver
• Ability to prototype in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and/or Flash is strong plus
• Ability to create illustrations for stylized graphic artwork and icons is a strong plus
• Demonstrated history of acquiring user data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing user research) is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience; MFA degree preferred

When contacting recruiter@audible.com, please include a cover letter with your resume.

Only qualifying candidates will be contacted.

Audible is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Audible (www.audible.com http://www.audible.com/ ), a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com located in Newark NJ, is the Internet’s leading provider of spoken audio programming – including books of any genre, magazines, radio shows, daily newspapers, and more. Titles downloaded from Audible are compatible with hundreds of mobile devices, including the Apple® iPod®. Audible prides itself on providing listening experiences that enhance the commute, working out at the gym, or simply relaxing at home.

Position Title: Director, Mobile Applications

Compensation: Audible offers competitive compensation and benefits packages, including equity incentives

Work Location: Newark, NJ

Job Overview
The position of Director – Mobile Application will report to the VP of Business Development is an opportunity for a highly motivated individual to get involved with all aspects of the mobile strategy for a major Internet brand. Strong communication, negotiation, product management, and presentation skills are required.

Major Job Responsibilities:
• Assist in creating a roadmap for Audible’s mobile strategy with the focus of delivering applications that support an end-to-end Audible experience.
• Defining product release requirements and features aimed at achieving penetration growth in various mobile platforms.
• Work closely with the engineering team to track the progress of internal development to meet product release timeline and act as the single point of contact for the mobile business unit.
• Developing business plans for each platform launch that includes marketing and merchandising initiatives that support the current efforts of the business.
• Work cross functionally with the merchandise, marketing, engineering, and other business units to drive consensus in product development and launch cycles for each application.
• Source and develop partnerships with mobile companies, in addition to maintaining a close handle on the mobile industry and intimately following any meaningful trends from a software and hardware perspective.
• Responsible for growing the mobile business by driving membership and a la carte sales through each mobile application.
• Produce and analyze reports measuring the performance of existing partnerships.
Ability to design and/or approve high level contracts with external partners.

Key Skills & Abilities:
- Prior experience in developing mobile with emphasis in analysis, design, and documentation.
- Outstanding execution skills. Must have the ability to deliver on strategic concepts including the ability to prioritize to ensure near-term deliverables.
- Ability to prioritize, multi-task and work autonomously.
- Ability to articulate value based solutions to complex business problems.
- Ability to operate in a high-energy, high-intensity and rapidly evolving environment.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications:
• Minimum of 5-7 years of relevant experience in the mobile platform development with 9+ years of Internet commerce experience.
• Masters degree and a minimum of 10 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Audible is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
When contacting recruiter@audible.com, please include a cover letter with your resume.
Only qualifying candidates will be contacted.

Audible.com (a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com) is looking for a dynamic and motivated software engineer to join the Mobile Products team. As a member of the team you will have the opportunity to help deliver Audible’s Mobile Products.

If you are a sharp, experienced software engineer with a creative edge, strong problem-solving skills, a solid software development foundation and the desire to be an individual contributor to Audible’s next generation technology, we want to talk with you.  Joining our team provides the unique challenge and opportunity to deliver software that benefits many customers around the world.

The Software Development Engineer in Test’s primary task is to white-box test our mobile products.  The test software you will build should expose API defects in production level code as well as defects at the component and feature levels. 

This is an extremely challenging role that demands strong technical leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities:

• Working with business and technical teams to define testing requirements and specifications
• Designing and building testing tools for automated unit, functional and performance testing
• Defining and executing test plans
• Triaging and deep diving on issues
• Communicating effectively to ensure that all business requirements are being assessed and addressed to ensure development projects meet or exceed performance targets
• Participating in all activities accordingly to ensure on time deliverables are met including day-to-day planning and coordination with testers, developers, project managers and business representatives

Requirements:

• 3+ years mobile platforms development and testing experience with a demonstrable product portfolio
• Additional skills include services, web, Java, C++ and net protocols development and testing experience
• UI, wireless, multimedia and e-commerce development and testing experience a plus
• BS or MS preferred in Computer Science plus  5+ years industry experience, with at least 5 years of experience, which may be composed of at least 2 years as a developer and 3 years as a QA Engineer, or 5 years as an SDET
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals
• An outstanding track record in Quality Assurance
• Solid coding practices including good design documentation, unit testing, peer code-reviews, and a preference for agile methods
• Passion for building new mobile products in a fast paced, team-oriented environment
• Robust project planning/execution skills including; estimating, scheduling and executing on committed schedules
• API automation testing including working experience with unit test automation frameworks
• Familiar with the Eclipse IDE and Subversion
• Customer-focused, ability to triage issues, react well to changes, work with teams and ability to multi-task on multiple products and projects
• Excellent judgment, organizational and problem solving skills; technical, project and personnel
• Exceptional interpersonal communication skills; verbal, written, listening, including customer relationships
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Passion for building new mobile products in a fast paced, team-oriented environment

Audible and Philips Sign Technology Agreement
March 2, 2009 6:00 AM EST

NEWARK, N.J A leading provider of premium digital spoken-audio information and entertainment, Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced a three-year technology agreement. Thanks to this collaboration users of the 2009 range of Philips GoGear portable audio and video players will have access to the over 50,000 titles of spoken-word programming available at Audible, including current bestsellers, history, mystery, speeches, business titles, and literary classics. In addition, the Audible enabled Philips GoGear players will include a free trial to Audible.

Five new personal audio/video devices in the Philips lineup, GoGear Spark, GoGear Aria, GoGear Vibe, GoGear Muse and GoGear Opus, are the first AudibleReady releases in 2009. They will support Audible’s newest file format with synchronized text and images. Thanks to this file format, Philips users will be able to expand their on the go experience through purchase of audiobooks and premium spoken-word content from Audible, as well as picture books and award-winning children’s and young adults literature at AudibleKids.com.

“We are excited to have Philips devices be among the first to access the next generation of Audible technology by supporting our new enhanced content,” said Will Lopes, vice president of Business Development at Audible, Inc. “This agreement marries both companies’ respective technology, allowing consumers to listen to spoken-word content that takes advantage of images and text to deliver a superior experience on truly innovative portable devices.”

“We are genuinely excited about this collaboration with Audible,” said Jasper Vervoort, director of Strategy and Business Development at Philips Consumer Lifestyle, “as it enables us to deliver, next to GoGear superior sound quality, easy access to Audible’s content beyond music”.

For more information on Audible.com, please visit:

http://www.audible.com

For more information on Philips’GoGear range of products, please visit:

http://www.philips.com/gogear

About Royal Philips Electronics

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is a diversified Health and Well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations. As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions, based on fundamental customer insights and the brand promise of “sense and simplicity”. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips employs approximately 121,000 employees in more than 60 countries worldwide. With sales of EUR 26 billion in 2008, the company is a market leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new lighting applications, as well as lifestyle products for personal well-being and pleasure with strong leadership positions in flat TV, male shaving and grooming, portable entertainment and oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at www.philips.com/newscenter.

About Audible.com

Audible, Inc. (www.audible.com) is a leading provider of premium digital 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 50,000 audio programs from more than 800 content providers 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), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.

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 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, 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 most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

RENAISSANCE LEARNING INTRODUCES NEW READING INTERVENTION PROGRAM

January 29, 2009, Wisconsin Rapids, WI – Renaissance Learning, Inc. (NASDAQ: RLRN) announced today the introduction of Successful Reader, a research-based reading intervention program focused on the key skill and motivational needs of struggling readers in grades 4-12. This exciting new product combines the world’s most popular and successful Accelerated Reader program, powerful instructional materials created by leading reading intervention expert Dr. Roger Farr, and premium digital audiobooks supplied by AudibleKids.com, a service of Audible, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), to deliver the most exciting and motivational reading intervention product ever.

Successful Reader helps teachers build student self-confidence and motivation to read, and improves overall reading achievement through a unique “book club” design that incorporates award-winning literature with professionally narrated read-aloud audiobooks from AudibleKids.com, key skills instruction and application, informal writing, and guided independent reading practice. The book club approach offers an inviting atmosphere and encourages students to express their thoughts, ideas, and reactions to reading, which helps develop their reading comprehension and makes them more critical readers and thinkers.

Successful Reader combines the widely-used Accelerated Reader and STAR Reading progress monitoring software with powerful instructional materials to dramatically improve achievement of struggling students. Because this program helps students focus on the most critical elements needed for reading growth, teachers can implement Successful Reader easier and quicker than other interventions, enabling students to experience success sooner. In addition, the Successful Reader model provides explicit instruction in key skill areas to impact reading achievement, making it a perfect tool for Tier 2 and above in a successful Response to Intervention framework.

Developed with Dr. Roger Farr, a leading expert in the field of reading intervention and former president of the International Reading Association, Successful Reader will help educators focus on the most critical needs of their students by following its easy-to-use instructional model. “Struggling readers need to engage in thoughtful responses to engaging stories. They need to be motivated and experience success,” said Dr. Farr. “It’s also critical that key reading comprehension strategies all good readers use are modeled for them and that they are given the opportunity to practice these skills with self-selected literature. Successful Reader takes struggling readers into an audio and print book club where all of these things happen with well planned, easy-to-implement teaching strategies.”

“Successful Reader is a powerful new product that serves to validate the efficacy of literate listening for developing readers,” said Donald Katz, founder and CEO of Audible. “From a child’s earliest experience of literature read out loud to our success at Audible in turning iPods and other digital devices into learning tools, evidence continuously confirms that audiobooks are becoming an essential aspect of learning to read well.”

Successful Reader comes with 400 engaging trade books (20 copies each of 20 titles); two teacher guides and 20 student guides; professionally narrated audiobooks provided by AudibleKids; an MP3 player with external speaker; access to an interactive web site for teachers to learn tips and techniques from reading intervention experts and share ideas with others implementing Successful Reader; and professional development to help teachers maximize their implementation.

Successful Reader Upper Elementary and Middle Grade packages are expected to be available in spring, with a High School package in development for future release. Successful Reader is designed to work with Accelerated Reader Enterprise and STAR Reading. Not only is Successful Reader more effective than other reading intervention programs, it’s also more affordable. For more information about Successful Reader, visit www.renlearn.com/lp/sfr/.

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About Renaissance Learning, Inc.

Renaissance Learning, Inc. is the world’s leading provider of computer-based assessment technology for pre-K–12 schools. Adopted by more than 75,000 North American schools, Renaissance Learning’s tools provide daily formative assessment and periodic progress-monitoring technology to enhance core curriculum, support differentiated instruction, and personalize practice in reading, writing and math. Renaissance Learning products help educators make the practice component of their existing curriculum more effective by providing tools to personalize practice and easily manage the daily activities for students of all levels. As a result, teachers using Renaissance Learning products accelerate learning, get more satisfaction from teaching, and help students achieve higher test scores on state and national tests. Renaissance Learning has seven U.S. locations and subsidiaries in Canada, India, and the United Kingdom.

About Audible.com

Audible (www.audible.com) is the leading provider of premium digital 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 50,000 audio programs from more than 700 content providers 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.

AudibleKids.com and Parenting Magazine Announce Strategic Alliance to Promote Kids’ Literacy Through Digital Audiobooks

The first online audiobook community for families teams up with the most respected magazine for moms

NEWARK, N.J. August 18, 2008 -The leading provider of premium digital audio, Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Bonnier Corp.’s Parenting Group today announced a strategic alliance that taps into the rapid growth of downloadable audiobooks and the need for innovative approaches to jumpstart interest in reading among children.

Designed to provide Parenting magazine’s readers and online users with a new place to turn children onto books, the alliance involves a Parenting-branded download boutique at AudibleKids.com and wide-ranging promotional efforts led by the magazine and its web site, Parenting.com.

“Our effort with AudibleKids offers moms a new approach to inspire their children’s imaginations and help build their confidence to become better readers,” said Susan Kane, editorial director of The Parenting Group and editor-in-chief of Parenting magazine. “We’re thrilled to introduce such a timely, innovative and effective service
to our readers and their digital media-savvy children.”

The association will be tied to a Parenting section of the AudibleKids.com website which will feature children’s audiobooks recommended by Parenting editors. The boutique will also contain “all ages” listening lists for family road trips as well as select titles for moms to listen to during those rare moments when they’re by themselves.

To promote the effort, The Parenting Group will be promoting AudibleKids.com in Parenting magazine and throughout Parenting.com beginning August 12. Parenting will also be featuring AudibleKids.com in the magazine’s customized “Back to School” guide for moms, which will be distributed to over 1,000 pediatricians’ offices nationwide.

“Parenting is clearly the leading brand in America today when it comes to providing trusted advice on the best ways to raise a family and be the best mom you can be,” said Brian Fitzgerald, Vice President of AudibleKids. “So their involvement with AudibleKids is yet another validation that AudibleKids is the best way to help parents turn iPods and other MP3 players into digital learning tools to help their children read better and discover a lifelong love of books.”

About The Parenting Group

The Parenting Group delivers over 15 million mom impressions and 20 million consumer touchpoints every month to the valuable mom market. Its two flagship brands are Parenting, the nation’s premier magazine for moms, and the Babytalk portfolio, which includes the monthly Babytalk magazine and its siblings Babytalk First Months and Babytalk Mom-to-Be. The Parenting Group’s other extensions include:
Parenting.com; MomConnection(R), an online research tool; and a custom
content unit. The Parenting Group is a division of Bonnier Corporation.

About Bonnier Corp.
Bonnier Corporation (www.bonniercorp.com) is one of the largest consumer-publishing groups in America and the leading media company serving passionate, highly engaged audiences through more than 40 special-interest magazines and related multimedia projects and events.

About Audible.com
Audible (www.audible.com) is the leading provider of premium digital audio 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 50,000 audio programs from more than 470 content providers 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.