The event takes place Saturday, April 29, from 10 a.

Festival of Books Sponsors
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books -- one of the nation's premier
public literary festivals and the largest of its kind on the West Coast -- was
created in 1996 by The Times to promote literacy and to bring together those
who create books with the people who love to read them.m."
We're very pleased to work with MediaBay in placing some of our leading
Shakespeare CliffsNotes study guides in a download audio format for the first
time," said Kristin Kliemann, vice president and global rights director of
Wiley. In addition to its popular Audio Book Club, MediaBay
distributes its content through proprietary web sites soundsgood.

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Book lovers will be able to meet
best-selling authors, publishers and other literary figures.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Awards Ceremony
The 26th annual presentation of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes is set
for Friday, April 28, at 8 p.

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company maintains a library consisting of more than 75,000 hours of content,
including audiobooks from best-selling authors and the history of American
Radio.com as well as through partner channels including Loudeye, MSN
Music, Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio. The Company is listed on
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Hundreds of
exhibitor booths, stage events and popular children's characters keep it
entertaining for all ages.
The Times' website, http://www.com, offers an
extensive range of entertainment news reviews and Southern California's most
comprehensive event listing.
Following the initial launch of Audio CliffsNotes' Shakespeare works, the
agreement between MediaBay and Wiley may expand to encompass additional
CliffsNotes titles within the following year.

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m. Some of MediaBay's digital content partners include BBC, Blackstone,
Brilliance Audio, CBS Radio, Harper Collins, Hay House , Oasis, Penguin Group
USA Audio, Random House, Simon + Schuster, Sound Room Publishers, Time Warner
Audio and Zondervan.com,
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site can be accessed at wiley.

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tickets have been distributed.com's
award-winning arts and entertainment section, calendarlive.
(Nasdaq: MBAY), a leading digital media and publishing company specializing in
spoken word and premium audio entertainment, today announced that it has
signed an agreement with Wiley Publishing, Inc.
"This inaugural relationship with Wiley will allow MediaBay to place an
already familiar study guide brand in an even more familiar place for today's
students - the online audio marketplace," said Jeff Dittus, chief executive
officer of MediaBay.

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Laura Schlessinger and Sarah Vowell

LOS ANGELES, The 11th annual Los Angeles Times
Festival of Books will feature more than 90 author/panel discussions, author
book signings, six stages featuring children 's programming, poetry readings,
cooking demonstrations and music.

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The Los Angeles Times Book Prize Awards, established in 1980, recognizes
outstanding literary achievements in biography, current interest, history,
poetry, science and technology, fiction , first fiction, mystery/thriller, and
young adult fiction.SoundsGood."

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Authors scheduled to participate include Dave Barry, Douglas Brinkley,
Mary Higgins Clark, Robert Crais, Larry Flynt, Arianna Huffington, Chip Kidd,
David Maraniss, Cokie Roberts, Dr . Laura Schlessinger and Sarah Vowell. Barnes + Noble Booksellers, Borders Bookstores and Canada are major
sponsors. The Times
publishes five daily regional editions, for the Los Angeles metropolitan area,
Orange County, Ventura County, the San Fernando Valley, and the Inland Empire
of Riverside and San Bernardino counties.radiospirits.

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MediaBay Announces Exclusive Audio Study Guide Deal with CliffsNotes(R)

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Sunday, April 30, from 10 a. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), publisher
of the well -known black-and-yellow CliffsNotes literature study guides, to
produce exclusive audio guides for William Shakespeare's most famous plays.

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Authors Scheduled to Participate Include Dave Barry, Douglas Brinkley, Mary
Higgins Clark, Robert Crais, Larry Flynt, Arianna Huffington, Chip Kidd, David
Maraniss, Cokie Roberts, Dr. Free tickets will be
available at all Ticketmaster locations in Southern California starting
Sunday, April 23 at noon until Thursday, April 27 at 5 p.TheEnvelope .com (http://www., provides must-have content and
services to customers worldwide. Wiley has publishing , marketing, and distribution centers in the
United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

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As part of the Los Angeles Times yearlong 125th anniversary celebration ,
the 2006 Festival of Books will have panels featuring Times editorial staff
and a 125th anniversary -themed Times Pavilion. 27 at UCLA's Central Ticket Office, 310-825-2101
or http://www. It is presented in
association with UCLA. Ticketmaster is the official ticket supplier of the event. Partnership Marries Top Study Guide Brand with Leading Digital Media Spoken
Word Publisher to Offer Audio Guide Downloads of Famous Shakespeare Plays

CEDAR KNOLLS, N. The guides will be produced by MediaBay in the
coming months and will be available on the company's digital download service,
SoundsGood . "We're tremendously excited to work with Wiley to bring
the perennially best-selling CliffsNotes Shakespeare guides to the masses via
MediaBay's expanding digital audio distribution channels.com .

Contacts for MediaBay:
Michael Hope Tim Clemensen
mPRm Public Relations Rubenstein Investor Relations
323-933-3399 212-843 -9337
tclemensen@rubensteinir.

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Target is the presenting sponsor of the 2006 Los Angeles Times Festival of
Books.latimes.latimes.
The agreement includes audio guides for Julius Caesar , King Lear, Macbeth, A
Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Romeo + Juliet, The
Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest.mediabay.

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Additional sponsors will be announced as they are confirmed.
General information about the Festival is available at
http://www.
Admission is free, but tickets are required to attend author panel
discussions and lectures because of limited seating.
Additional information about The Times is available at
http://www. The availability of audio study
guides will be cross promoted by Wiley, including prominent feature placement
on CliffsNotes. Its core businesses include scientific,
technical , and medical journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and
services; professional and consumer books and subscription services; and
educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong
learners.

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About Wiley
Founded in 1807, John Wiley + Sons, Inc.

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To date , 100 million CliffsNotes literature study guides have been sold in
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The event's emcee will
be author, analyst and political commentator Cokie Roberts. Tickets are
required and go on sale Feb.tickets. The Times also produces The Envelope,
http://www.com) and through its growing list of
distribution partners including MSN Music, in the Microsoft Windows Media
format .com and
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11th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Set for April 29-30 at UCLA Campus

, in UCLA's Royce Hall.

The Times, a Tribune Publishing company, is the largest metropolitan daily
newspaper in the country and the winner of 37 Pulitzer Prizes.

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, on the UCLA campus . More information is available at http://www.com, features 50,000 content pages, and is
updated continuously with more than 3,000 stories posted daily. "High school and college students are a core audience for our study
guides, and we anticipate the audio versions of these products will quickly
become a popular and convenient way for students to appreciate and understand
these literary classics .

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The official poster of the 2006 Festival of Books features artwork by
Marie-Louise Gay entitled "Castle of Books." Gay has written and/or
illustrated more than 30 books for children , and her books have been published
in a dozen countries. Latimes.latimes.com/mediacenter., MediaBay , Inc. MediaBay will also
distribute Hamlet, the only CliffsNotes Shakespeare guide that had been
available in audio until now.com and via mention of the audio format in appropriate future
printings of the hard copy guides, to maximize the companies' collective
reach.