Audible is owned by Amazon (the United States, NASDAQ: AMZN), which acquired the brand on 1 March 2008 for $300 million.[1][2] Audible was founded in 1995 in Newark, New Jersey and was independent until 2008.
Evidence: Amazon.com, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-06, SEC EDGAR, 6 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Audible sold the first portable digital audio player in 1997, four years before the iPod, and now dominates audiobooks. Amazon acquired it in 2008 for about $300 million, pairing it with the Kindle business it had launched the previous year.
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Amazon controls 11 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in internet & digital.
The 36 brands in digital publishing on Brandtree belong to 20 owners. The largest is Astro, with 4; Amazon has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Astro Ulagam | Astro | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Research Exchange | Wiley | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Engadget | Apollo | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Allrecipes | IAC | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Bossip | Urban One | 🇺🇸 United States |
| BOOK☆WALKER | Kadokawa | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| NAVER Blog | NAVER | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| BMC | Springer Nature | 🇩🇪 Germany |
Amazon is a publicly listed company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States, founded in 1994. Brandtree records 11 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: AMZN.
Amazon began selling books online in 1994 and is now among the largest companies in the world. Its 2017 purchase of Whole Foods Market gave it a physical grocery estate, and it has since built its own grocery and household brands sold through its store.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Audible is not one of them.
Amazon acquired Audible for about $300 million, pairing spoken-word audio with the Kindle it had launched a few months earlier. Audible had sold the first portable digital audio player in 1997, four years before the iPod.
The parent company of Audible is Amazon, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. Audible originated in the United States in 1995 and its owner, Amazon, is also headquartered in the United States.
Amazon completed its acquisition of Audible on 1 March 2008, after announcing the deal on 31 January 2008. The deal was valued at $300 million.
Audible was an independent company from its founding in 1995 in Newark, New Jersey until Amazon acquired it in 2008.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Audible is still owned by Amazon. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
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