MediaBay and Brilliance Audio Sign Digital Distribution Deal to Offer Nearly 1,000 Titles to the Consumer Market

MediaBay and Brilliance Audio Sign Digital Distribution Deal to Offer Nearly 1,000 Titles to the Consumer Market

Includes Bestsellers from Authors Dave Barry, Sandra Brown, Michael Connelly, Al Franken, Jack Higgins, Dean Koontz, Nora Roberts, John Saul, Stuart Woods, Zig Ziglar and many others

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J., July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MediaBay, Inc. (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 Brilliance Audio, the nation's largest independent audiobook publisher, to offer downloadable audiobook editions of its extensive library of fiction and nonfiction bestsellers. Nearly 1000 titles of downloadable content will include works by authors such as Nevada Barr, Suzanne Brockmann, Lee Child, Catherine Coulter, Kay Hooper, Fern Michaels, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Sara Paretsky, Amanda Quick, and also includes the best- selling children's series such as Pendragon. In addition, MediaBay will offer unabridged Brilliance Audio versions of classics such as Little Women, Robinson Crusoe, Great Expectations, Dracula, and The Last of the Mohicans along with a faith-based line of fiction and nonfiction titles.

These titles will be available to the millions of MSN users to download throughout the United States via the MSN Music service (http://www.music.msn.com/) as part of MediaBay's exclusive agreement with MSN. MediaBay also plans to offer these titles on its own branded sites and will distribute the content throughout its growing network of affiliate sites that MediaBay powers.

This agreement with Brilliance Audio is a major milestone in building the digital future of MediaBay," said Jeff Dittus, Chief Executive Officer for MediaBay. "We are fortunate to have re-established a partnership with the nations largest independent audiobook publisher and are pleased to be the first audiobook reseller to bring these books to the digital download retail marketplace."

"Brilliance Audio is delighted to work with MediaBay in expanding consumer listening options for some of the best in fiction and nonfiction from today's leading authors," said Eileen Hutton, Vice President and Associate Publisher of Brilliance Audio. "Our agreement expands both companies' reach into the exciting new digital audio space, and will enable our authors to reach consumers in a new distribution model."

About MediaBay, Inc.

MediaBay Inc. (NASDAQ:MBAY) is a leading digital media and publishing company specializing in spoken word and premium audio entertainment. The company maintains a library consisting of over 75,000 hours of content, including audio books from best-selling authors and the history of American Radio. Some of MediaBay's digital content partners include BBC, Blackstone, CBS Radio, Harper Collins, Hay House, Oasis, Penguin Audio, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Sound Room, Zondervan. In addition to its popular Audio Book Club, MediaBay distributes its content through proprietary web sites including audiobookclub.com and radiospirits.com as well as through partner channels including, Loudeye, MSN Music, Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio. For more information on MediaBay, please visit http://www.mediabay.com/, http://www.audiobookclub.com/, http://www.radiospirits.com/.

About Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Brilliance Audio is the country's oldest trade audio publisher, and is the only independent to rank in the top three overall. Founded in 1984 by Publisher Michael Snodgrass, it was the first publisher to offer unabridged audiobooks for sale in bookstores, giving birth to a whole new industry. Brilliance publishes a wide range of bestselling adult fiction and nonfiction in both unabridged and abridged audio formats, and sells to all classes of trade, as well as to the library market. Celebrating its 21st year, It remains a privately held company, with Snodgrass and Hutton as principals and partners. For more information, please visit http://www.brillianceaudio.com/.

Certain statements in this press release constitute "forward-looking" statements that involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause MediaBay's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any results, performances or achievements express or implied by such forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release including, without limitation, statements regarding our future financial position, business strategy, budgets, projected costs and plans and objectives of our management for future operations are forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "will," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," or "continue" or the negative thereof or variations thereon or similar terminology. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations, include, without limitation, our history of losses; the success of our new digital media distribution strategy and our ability to anticipate and respond to changing customer preferences, license and produce desirable content, protect our databases and other intellectual property from unauthorized access, collect receivables; dependence on third-party providers, suppliers and distribution channels; competition; the costs and success of our marketing strategies; product returns; member attrition and other risks detailed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003. Undue reference should not be placed on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

Contacts:
Elana Altshuler Tim Clemensen
mPRm Public Relations Rubenstein Investor Relations
323-933-3399 212-843-9337
ealtshuler@mprm.comtclemensen@rubensteinir.com

Source: MediaBay, Inc.

CONTACT: Elana Altshuler of mPRm Public Relations, +1-323-933-3399 or
ealtshuler@mprm.com; or Tim Clemensen of Rubenstein Investor Relations,
+1-212-843-9337 or tclemensen@rubensteinir.com

Web site: http://www.mediabay.com/
http://www.audiobookclub.com/
http://www.radiospirits.com/
http://www.brillianceaudio.com/

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