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Company Overview
  • For the past 13 years MediaBay has been a leading
    seller of spoken word entertainment including
    audiobooks and classic radio shows via catalog,
    retail, digital download.
  • MediaBay has over 75,000 hours of content
  • Audiobooks from every major publisher in the
    United States including Simon and Schuster,
    Hachette (Time Warner), Brilliance, Penguin,
    Random House, and Harper Collins and
  • The largest archive of the history of American
    Radio including such stars as Abbott
    Costello, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Orson Wells, The
    Shadow, Lucille Ball, Burns and Allen, Lone
    Ranger, Superman, Gunsmoke and much more.

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How MediaBay Sells Classic Radio Programs
  • retailers such as Barnes Noble and Borders
  • Direct to consumers via catalogue
  • Internet at RadioSpirits.com
  • Download at RadioClassics.com
  • Syndicated Radio show on 250 stations and 24 hour
    stations on XM and Sirius

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How MediaBay Sells Audiobooks
  • Via Catalogue on a monthly basis directly to
    consumers
  • Websites AudiobookClub.com and Soundsgood.com
  • Via third party partnerships with MSN Music, Real
    Networks and MusicNet (AOL Muisc, Yahoo! Music,
    HMV, Virgin, MTV)

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Where is the Spoken Word Market Going?
  • The Audio Publisher Association estimates the
    total Audio Book market in 2004 was 800 Million
  • Includes sales at retail (600M), to libraries
    (150M) clubs (20M) downloads (30M)
  • Audiobook market has grown at 10 per annum for
    the past 10 years
  • In 2004, an estimated 8.6 of the music sales
    came from legal and illegal downloads
  • In 2009, Forrester estimates 33 of music sales
    will come from downloads
  • If Audio Books follow the same adoption curve,
    the download Audio Book market will be 380
    Million in 2009
  • Source Forrester Research August 2003 Discs to
    Downloads

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How will Downloads be Listened to?
  • Burn Audio CDs
  • Music (MP3) Players
  • -Hard Drives
  • -Flash Drives
  • SD Cards
  • Smart Phones
  • Super PDAs
  • Satellite Radio
  • Media Centers
  • Portable Video Players

Since 70 of AudioBooks are listened to in the
car, this is the opportunity that needs to be
capitalized upon.
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New Technologies Services
  • Motorola recently announced iRadio Service
  • Music and content service on your Motorola that
    has hundreds of commercial free music channels
    and talk stations.
  • Uses Bluetooth to play back content in your car
    or home stereo system
  • Stores content in the cache memory of the phone
    and if interrupted, picks up where it is left
    off.

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New Technologies and Services
  • mSpot
  • Private labels service for Sprint Radio on cell
    phones
  • delivers news, sports, finance and weather
    programming from NPR, Sporting News, MarketWatch
    and AccuWeather.
  • MSpots mobile radio services feature three
    programming formats
  • LIVE live radio programming
  • ON-DEMAND frequently updated clips and stories
    that users can select and play anytime
  • PRE-RECORDED long format shows and programs
    that loop continuously. All programming formats
    are streamed directly to the mobile handset -
    MSpot does not store any content on the device.

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New Technologies and Services
  • Client Software for Smartphones and PDAs such as
    AudibleAir
  • Allows a user to wirelessly access their books or
    subscriptions for listening from their Smartphone
    or PDA.
  • Uses minutes from data plan.
  • Refresh new content or schedule automatic updates
    in a similar way as an RSS feed
  • Download new audiobook content
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