Seton Hall Adopts Audible's Technology for Audio Learning Initiative; ``Audible Provides Seton Hall's Incoming Freshman Class with Digital Audio Downloads''

This effort highlights a step forward for the University and forAudible as they seek to demonstrate the importance of listening as abuilding block to literacy. Audio downloads tailor curriculum tostudents' busy lifestyles by engaging them in a familiar and relevantmedium.

Audible Education enables students, educators, and professionalsto download and listen to spoken-word audio study materials, guides toclassic works of literature, test preparation resources, and more tomeet the individual's mobile learning needs. This enables students notonly to develop their skills and knowledge during times that they areunable to look at a page or screen, but helps to improve their overallcomprehension of required texts and general interest reading while onthe go.

"Our work in the field shows that digital audio can help studentsto comprehend, make inferences, and engage in critical thinking abouta text," said Brian Fitzgerald, Vice President of Audible Education."Instructors have told us that students are delighted with theexperience of listening to audio, and that many instructors havepointed to improved student performance from the effectiveness of theaudio learning experience. We are very excited about providing thisexperience to freshman at Seton Hall."

About Audible, Inc.: Audible (www.audible.com) is the leadingprovider of spoken entertainment and information on the Internet.Content from Audible is downloaded and played back on personalcomputers, CDs, or AudibleReady(R) computer-based mobile devices.Audible has 105,000 hours of audio programming from 334 contentpartners, including leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters,entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and businessinformation providers. Audible.com is the Apple iTunes Music Store'spreeminent provider of spoken products for downloading or streamingvia the Web. Among Audible's other key business relationships areBookspan, Creative Labs, Dell, iriver, Microsoft, Palm, SanDisk, TexasInstruments, and XM Satellite Radio.

Audible, www.audible.com, www.audible.co.uk, AudibleListener, andAudibleReady are registered trademarks of Audible, Inc. and all arepart of the family of Audible, Inc. trademarks. Other product orservice names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respectiveowners.

About Seton Hall University: For 150 years, Seton Hall Universityhas been a catalyst for leadership, developing the whole student,mind, heart and spirit. Seton Hall combines the resources of a largeuniversity with the personal attention of a small liberal artscollege. Its attractive suburban campus is only 14 miles by train,bus, or car to New York City, with the wealth of employment,internship, cultural, and entertainment opportunities the city offers.Seton Hall is a Catholic university that embraces students of allraces and religions, challenging each to better the world throughintegrity, compassion, and a commitment to serving others. For moreinformation, see www.shu.edu.