Judith McGuinn, the VP and director of Time Warner AudioBooks, says digital distribution can expand the audiobook market as both a marketing tool and supplemental revenue stream.

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"China is developing methods for consumers to view movies outside the cinema in a legitimate fashion, " said Jim Wuthrich, President, International Home Video and Digital Distribution, Warner Bros.

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Time Warner was basically a content distribution company and AOL was a digital service company and putting the two together was intended to put an Internet injection into Time Warner.

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Warner Bros, for instance, supplies small selections of its films to 38 separate digital-distribution services, according to Screen Digest, a research firm in London.

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"We are thrilled to count Amazon as a digital distribution outlet for our television group, " said Ken Werner, President, Warner Bros.

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Domestic Television Distribution (WBDTD) is one of the leading suppliers of entertainment programming to the domestic television marketplace, distributing first-run syndicated series, off-network television programs and theatrical motion pictures to local broadcast television stations, as well as to pay, cable, satellite, broadcast networks and digital platforms throughout the U.S. WBDTD handles the domestic distribution of television series produced by Warner Bros.

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