Amazon has acquired Rooftop Media, a ten-person company that records comedians in performance and licenses digital rights to thousands of hours of broadcast and recorded comedy, Reuters reports. (The acquisition was not announced by the company itself.) Rooftop will become part of Audible.com, which Rooftop ceo Will Rogers says “is obsessed with producing incredible programming.” Audible ceo Don Katz said in a statement, “Audible Studios has been conceiving and producing original content in mystery, science fiction and other genres for years…. With Rooftop’s rich comedic offerings and vast pool of comedy talent, we foresee an even more exciting selection of original spoken-word […]
