Amazon buys Audible — giving it triple threat of print, digital, audio
Amazon said it will buy Audible, a digital audiobook publisher, for roughly $300 million.
Audible provides 80,000 products in audio form, ranging from books by famed authors Stephen King and Jane Austen, newspapers such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, magazines as well as TV and radio subscriptions. Audible has 160 employees split between its headquarters in Newark, and an office in London.
I think in 2008 we will see Amazon begin releasing… Continue Reading