Electronic Arts 2008 Annual Report Download - page 15

PROXY STATEMENT
Our Board of Directors is soliciting proxies for the 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The proxy
materials, including this proxy statement, proxy card and voting instructions, contain important information for
you to consider when deciding how to vote on the matters brought before the meeting. Please read them
carefully.
The Board has set June 9, 2008 as the record date for the meeting. Stockholders who owned common stock on
that date are entitled to notice of the meeting, and to attend and vote at the meeting, with each share entitled
to one vote. There were 318,567,924 shares of common stock outstanding on the record date.
In accordance with rules and regulations recently adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(the “SEC”), we have elected to provide access to our proxy materials to our stockholders by providing such
documents on the Internet. The Notice of Annual Meeting, proxy statement, our 2008 Annual Report and form
of proxy were distributed and/or made available via the Internet to stockholders on or about June 17, 2008.
Stockholders will have the ability to access the proxy materials on a website referred to in the Notice of
Internet Availability of Proxy Materials (the “Notice”) or request a printed set of the proxy materials be sent
to them, by following the instructions in the Notice.
The Notice will also provide instructions on how to inform us to send future proxy materials to you
electronically by email or in printed form by mail. If you choose to receive future proxy materials by email,
you will receive an email next year with instructions containing a link to those materials and a link to the
proxy voting site. Your election to receive proxy materials by email or printed form by mail will remain in
effect until you terminate it. We encourage you to choose to receive future proxy materials by email. Doing
so will allow us to provide you with the information you need in a more timely manner, will save us the cost
of printing and mailing documents to you, and will help conserve natural resources.
In this proxy statement:
• “EA”, “we”, “our” and “the Company” mean Electronic Arts Inc.
• “2000 Equity Plan” and “Equity Plan” mean EA’s 2000 Equity Incentive Plan.
• “2000 Purchase Plan” and “Purchase Plan” mean EA’s 2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• “Executive Bonus Plan” means the Electronic Arts Inc. Executive Bonus Plan.
• Holding shares in “street name” means your EA shares are held in an account at a bank, brokerage firm
or other nominee.
• “Common stock” means EA’s common stock, as described in EA’s current Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation.
• “Fiscal 2009”, “fiscal 2008”, “fiscal 2007”, “fiscal 2006”, “fiscal 2005”, and “fiscal 2004” refer to EA’s
fiscal years ending or ended (as the case may be) on March 31, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, and
2004, respectively.
• We use “independent auditors” to refer to an independent registered public accounting firm.
• “Annual Report” and “2008 Annual Report” refer to our annual report for the fiscal year ended
March 31, 2008.
• Unless otherwise noted, all share and per-share information has been adjusted to reflect the September
2000 and November 2003 two-for-one splits of our common stock.
VOTING YOUR SHARES
Your vote is very important. Whether or not you plan to attend the Annual Meeting, we encourage you to read
this proxy statement and submit your proxy or voting instructions as soon as possible. For specific instructions
on how to vote your shares, please refer to the instructions on the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy
Materials you received in the mail, the section entitled Commonly Asked Questions and Answers set forth