On Tuesday, online content provider Audible announced that they had teamed up with Verlagsgruppe Random House and holtzbrinck networXs to create Audible.de. This joint venture will provide both German speaking individuals and residents of the country with audiobooks and other spoken-word media for downloading.
The website, Audible.de, is tentatively scheduled to go live in Q4/2004, and will have much of the same “feel” and all the functionality of the U.S.-based Audible.com. Along with German content, all of the material currently available on the parent website will be available for download.
[update: 9:29pm ET] This evening, I checked in with Audible on this, and unfortunately, it does not look as if current customers of the company will be able to use their accounts on the Audible.de website - though this is not finalized as of yet.
