Amazon Offers to Acquire Audible This morning Amazon announced it is offering to acquire Audible, valuing the company at approximately $300 million. Amazon is offering $11.5 a share, a 23 percent premium over yesterday’s closing price (though substantially lower than the company’s 2007 high point of $14 a share). The transaction is expected to close by the second quarter of 2008. Ever since it was indicated in 2005 that Amazon was interested in selling digital audiobooks directly instead of through its partnership with Audible — bolstered by the launch of Amazon’s MP3 music service last year and its acquisition of […]