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Home > Press > Press Releases > Eve Ensler's "The Vagina ...

Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" Debuts in E-Audio

02/09/2001

Press Contacts:

Dan Scheffey
Audible, Inc.

(973) 837-2784

Mary Beth Roche
Random House, Inc.
(212) 782 9810

EVE ENSLER’S THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES DEBUTS IN E-AUDIO
EXCLUSIVELY AT AUDIBLE.COM
Random House Audible will Contribute $1.00 to the

V-Day Fund for each copy of Ensler’s Performance Sold
During February

V-Day Supports Grassroots Efforts to End Violence Against Women

NEW YORK, NY, February 9, 2001 — Random House Audible, a partnership between Audible, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBL) and Random House, Inc., today announced the exclusive e-audio edition of The Vagina Monologues written and performed by playwright and activist Eve Ensler is available for digital download and streaming for $10.95 at
www.audible.com/monologues.

“I am very happy that the sales of The Vagina Monologues from audible.com will help support V-Day and the expanding movement to stop violence against women,” said Ensler.

The Vagina Monologues is a moving, poignant and often hilarious play, which celebrates female sexuality in all its complexity. Originally drawn from a collection of more than 200 interviews conducted by Eve Ensler with women from all walks of life, the Obie Award-winning play gives voice to some of the most intimate, rarely shared female fantasies and fears. Hailed as a new generation of women’s bible of self-expression and self-awareness, the play has been performed in cities all around the world. The play has also inspired the V-Day movement that supports international organizations and programs that work to end violence against women and girls.

“We’re thrilled to bring this joyous and moving performance to men and women who haven’t yet had the opportunity to see the play on stage, but can now hear Eve Ensler’s performance when and where they’d like,” commented Beth Anderson, vice president and publisher, Random House Audible. “Eve’s dedication to the V-Day cause is so inspiring and integral to the play that we wanted to make a financial contribution to support the crusade against violence.”

All of the audio editions at audible.com can be quickly transferred from a PC to any AudibleReady™ portable digital audio player. Current portable listening options include the Diamond Rio 500, any of the Pocket PCs manufactured by Casio, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard or the Digisette Duo-Aria, a digital audio player that operates as a stand-alone device or can playback using virtually any standard audiocassette tape player.

All Random House Audible titles can be purchased at www.audible.com and from Amazon.com’s Audio Download section. For more information about V-Day, visit
www.vday.org.

About Eve Ensler

Eve Ensler is an award-winning playwright, activist and screenwriter. Her play Necessary Targets, about the plight of women in Bosnia, has had benefit performances on Broadway, at the National Theater in Sarajevo, and at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Her newest play, Conviction, was commissioned by Music-Theater Group and recently performed at the Berkshire Theater Festival. The Vagina Monologues won a 1997 Obie Award, the jury award for the Best Theater Performance at the Aspen Comedy Festival 2000, and was nominated for Drama Desk and Helen Hayes awards. It is currently enjoying a long-standing, sold-out run at the off-Broadway Westside Theater in Manhattan. The world tour of The Vagina Monologues initiated V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women. Other Plays include: The Depot, Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man, Extraordinary Measures, Ladies, Scooncat and Lemonade. Ms. Ensler has written plays about nuclear disarmament, homeless women, death, and is currently working on a documentary about women in prison.

About Audible, Inc.
Audible® (www.audible.com) is the Internet's largest, most diverse provider of premium spoken audio services for content download or playback on personal computers or AudibleReady™ mobile devices. Audible has more than 28,000 hours of audio programs and 160 content partners that include leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, magazine and newspaper publishers and business information providers. Audible.com is Amazon.com's (www.amazon.com) exclusive provider of spoken word products for downloading or streaming via the Web. Additionally, the Company is strategically aligned with Random House, Inc., to pioneer the first-ever imprint to produce spoken word content specifically suited for digital distribution, Random House Audible. Among the Company's key business partners are Casio Inc., Compaq Computer Corporation, SONICblue Incorporated's Rio Audio Group, Microsoft Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, RealNetworks, Inc., Texas Instruments and VoiceAge Corp.

About Random House, Inc.

The publishing divisions and imprints of Random House, Inc., the world’s largest English-language trade book publisher, publish more than 3,500 new adult and children’s titles annually in hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, audio, and electronic formats in the U.S. Its affiliate eponymous English-language publishing companies in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa are market leaders in their respective countries.

Bertelsmann book publishing houses in Germany and Spain are also members of the Random House worldwide publishing family. Random House Audio Publishing Group is a full-line publisher offering titles through its Random House Audio, BDD Audio, and Listening Library imprints, in both abridged and unabridged formats and on cassettes and compact discs. The group’s imprints publish works in conjunction with Random House titles from all Random House, Inc. publishing divisions, as well as acquiring titles from outside sources. Random House is the Book division of Bertelsmann AG, a leading international media company with consolidated revenues of approximately U.S. $16.4 billion. With more than 600 individual companies, Bertelsmann has significant interests in all areas of media, including book, magazine and newspaper publishing, music, television, multimedia, film, and radio.

Audible is a registered trademark of Audible, Inc.; AudibleReady and www.audible.com are trademarks of Audible, Inc.

This press release contains information that is not historical fact and may be deemed to contain forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in any forward-looking statements as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, Audible’s limited operating history, history of losses, uncertain market for its services, and its inability to license or produce compelling audio content and other risks and uncertainties detailed in the company’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings.