Audible plans to make Podcasts available of some of it's major content such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC News Hour, and NPR's "The American Life" - as well as other periodic content - via secure RSS.

Initially only available to Audible customer, users will be able to schedule automatic delivery of Audible programming to their computers and to any of the over 135 "AudibleReady" audio devices.

This is the first in a series of Audible Podcast initiatives to be introduced this year. Other tools will be made available intended to support the publishing of podcasts in an environment that offers a revenue model to content creators and increases the experience to listeners.

"There are three companies that have the potential to be huge in podcasting and in creating this new medium. Apple, Microsoft and definitely Audible." said the Podfather Adam Curry.