Audible, Inc. is a provider of spoken entertainment (which got their start even before iPods existed) and information on the Internet. Audible specializes in the spoken experience, providing digital audio editions of books, newspapers and magazines, original programming, plus TV and radio subscriptions.

You can shop, purchase, and download audio content directly to personal computers for listening in a variety of ways. Most of AudibleÂ’’s customers download audio to their PCs and Macs and then transfer the audio to MP3 players, personal digital assistants (PDAs), or to smart mobile devices (SMDs) for listening on the go.

James Pearson of Audible says, customers can select from nearly 100,000 hours of audio content, or more than 30,000 different programs. The audio editions of national periodicals such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The New Yorker are just a few to name.