The service began offering its narration workshops at acting schools, including Juilliard and Tisch School of the Arts in 2013, Audible's CEO speculated that the company was the largest single employer of actors in the New York area. Firth's performance of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair was named Audiobook of the Year at the Audie Awards in 2013. Jackson, Diane Keaton, Nicole Kidman, and Kate Winslet performing great works of literature. In March 2012, Audible launched the A-List Collection, a series showcasing Hollywood stars including Claire Danes, Colin Firth, Anne Hathaway, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. The platform was so successful that in 2012, Audible reported it had received more titles from ACX than from its top three audio providers combined. In May 2011, the service launched Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), an online rights marketplace and production platform. In April of that year, Audible began producing exclusive science fiction and fantasy audiobooks under its "Audible Frontiers" imprint. On January 31, 2008, Amazon announced they would purchase Audible for about $300 million.
The new headquarters was a high-rise building on One Washington Park.
In 2007, CEO Donald Katz moved the company headquarters with 125 employees from suburban Wayne, New Jersey to Newark. One Washington Park headquarters, in Newark, New Jersey In 2006, the company released its A-List collection, which had famous works read by Anne Hathaway and Annette Bening.
Openaudible license update#
Its content would update automatically, downloading chapters as required that would then delete themselves after they had been listened to. Two years later, the service released "Audible Air", which allowed users to download audiobooks directly to PDAs and smartphones. This agreement ended in 2017 due to antitrust rulings in the European Union. In 2003, Audible reached an agreement with Apple to be the exclusive provider of audiobooks for iTunes Music Store. Development proceeded, however, leading to Audible licensing the ACELP codec for its downloads in 2000, and Amazon bought a 5 percent stake in the then-publicly traded company the same year. On October 24, 1999, Audible suffered a setback when its CEO, Andrew J. In 1999, Microsoft invested $11 million into the company. To use the player, consumers would go online to the official Audible website, download the audiobook, and put it onto the player.
Openaudible license portable#
The company's first product was an eponymous portable media player known as the Audible MobilePlayer released in 1997, the device contained around four megabytes of on-board flash memory storage, which could hold up to two hours of audio.
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