PC users need the company's Audible Manager program (part of its copy protection strategy and free to download from the site) to transfer books to a player.
Speaking by telephone last week, Scott Nocas, global marketing manager for programming of the Xbox Live entertainment service, said he expected similar deals to follow.
Expect more interactive TV to come, says Patrick Peters, executive vice president and general manager of programs of FourthWall Media.
"We've moved beyond where I think the network was in terms of being wallpaper programming," Allison Page, the general manager of programming at HGTV, told HuffPost.
Zach Overking is Senior Manager of Program Development for Consero Group LLC.
"It's feasible," said John J. White, manager of the Single Aircraft Accident Prevention program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
He is the manager of the American program of the Census of Marine Life, an international scientific initiative to assess the diversity, distribution and abundance of life in the oceans.
Mr. Zimmerman, 31, is the senior manager of programming development for N.F.L. New Media, which manages the National Football League's Web site, NFL.com.
Mrs. Kennedy, 32, is the manager of programming in New York for TNN, a cable television service that is part of MTV Networks.
According to Heath Smith, the program's manager, one of the program's 15 dogs has been trained to find the Oregon spotted frog in British Columbia.
