John Malkovich’s Performance of Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions Available as an Audio Download at Audible.com

Audible Studios, a production arm of Audible.com, today announced the release of John Malkovich’s new interpretation of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic satire, Breakfast of Champions. The Academy Award nominee’s performance is now available for download at www.audible.com/vonnegut. The release marks the first Audible Studios performance by the star of Empire of the Sun, Of Mice and Men, and Being John Malkovich, and is one of a series of definitive Audible Studios recordings of the Vonnegut canon in association with the Vonnegut estate. Breakfast of Champions, as well as other Vonnegut fiction, essays and speeches is now available for download at www.audible.com/vonnegut. Forthcoming audio editions will include a new recording of Slaughterhouse-Five.

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“Breakfast of Champions is just about the best script an actor could wish for, and it was a real treat to perform this landmark work for Audible Studios,” said Malkovich. “I hope Vonnegut fans have as much fun listening to this challenging and funny American classic as I had recording it, and I believe those new to the book will discover it’s just as fresh and relevant as it was forty years ago.”

“We’re delighted to announce that John Malkovich’s performance of Breakfast of Champions is an instant classic,” said Audible EVP and Publisher Beth Anderson. “Malkovich’s distinct, immediately recognizable voice is the perfect complement to Vonnegut’s bleakly humorous vision. Whether you are a fan of Vonnegut’s writing or Malkovich’s acting, you’ll enjoy listening to this performance.”

Audible will announce its casting choice for Slaughterhouse-Five shortly.

In addition to Malkovich, among the acclaimed performers who have narrated works of literature for Audible are Dan Stevens, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kate Winslet and Tim Robbins. In 2013, Audible Studios won its first Grammy Award, for its production of Janis Ian’s memoir Society’s Child, and also won the Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year, for Colin Firth’s performance of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair.

Audible, the world’s largest seller and producer of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word content, invented and commercialized the first digital audio player in 1997, and has since been at the forefront of the explosively growing audiobook download segment. In 2014, listeners around the world downloaded 1.2 billion hours of audio from Audible.com outlets; Audible members downloaded an average of more than 17 books over the course of the year. More than half of current Audible members are first-time audiobook buyers.

ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC.

Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment, offering customers a new way to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible’s mission is to establish literate listening as a core tool for anyone seeking to be more productive, better informed, or more thoughtfully entertained. Audible content includes more than 225,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business information providers. Audible is also the preeminent provider of spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes Store.

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