Leading Publishers Provide Content
for Innovative Playaway Audio Book Launch
livy kertzer
"Playaway's simplicity and portability should help
attract a broader and more
demographically diverse audience to audio books," said Chris Lynch, Executive
Vice President and Publisher, Simon + Schuster Audio.436.com
Viewers will
be able to vote up to and then into the first 10
minutes of the show to determine the
outcome on LIVE television.boorstin thucydides
Discovery Channel Taps Relatives and Fans of the Top Five Greatest Americans
to Make Their Case
advocate
* Tom Westman - "Survivor" winner, fire fighter and Benjamin
Franklin advocate
* Floyd G.newscom.dupee morison
In addition to today's announcements
, Findaway remains in discussions with
several additional publishers and expects to add to its partners
and available
titles as Playaway's much-anticipated debut approaches.
Relatives
and advocates of the final five candidates will be
joining host Matt Lauer for the culmination
of this national
debate.voegelin sallust
Lewis and Roald Dahl.
Other publishers noted Playaway
's potential to grow the category.com/greatestamerican, or use the phone and text methods
listed below to vote for your favorite candidate.khaldun barzun
Premier titles will be available this
holiday season on
new digital audio book format
CLEVELAND, Findaway
World, producers of the first
self-playing digital audio book, today announced agreements with several
leading publishers and content owners, including HarperCollins Publishers,
Simon + Schuster, Penton
Overseas and Brilliance Audio to provide a wide range
of content for the company's Playaway product
. "With today's announcement, we will
be able to do just that - offer great titles in categories including
fiction
and non-fiction bestsellers, business, and children's classics.luker kertzer
When the product hits
retail shelves in October, the Playaway audio book
collection will total more than forty titles,
including several that were
announced today, including:
-- C. Lewis, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
, Book One THE MAGICIAN'S
NEPHEW and Book Two THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (bundled
unit)
-- Roald Dahl, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and CHARLIE AND THE
GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR (bundled unit)
-- Jack Welch, WINNING
-- Ben Mezrich, BUSTING
VEGAS
-- Rick Warren, THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE
-- Dan Brown, ANGELS AND DEMONS
-- Doris Kearns Goodwin, AMERICAN COLOSSUS: THE POLITICAL GENIUS OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
-- David McCullough, 1776
-- Khaled Hosseini, KITE RUNNER
-- Penton Overseas, SPANISH
, GERMAN, FRENCH and ITALIAN Language
(A complete list of Playaway titles and authors is available
from
Findaway)
"Our goal at launch has always been to make a wide variety of the best
and
newest titles available for consumers to enjoy on Playaway," said Christopher
Celeste, Findaway
Founder and President."
Designed in conjunction with IDEO, one of the industry's leading product
innovation firms, Playaway is smaller than a deck of cards, yet still packed
with features.
Findaway World, a privately-held company based in Cleveland, Ohio, is
dedicated to delivering
innovative, easy-to-use digital audio products to
consumers who need them.findawayworld.Sites and
categories for individuals now or formerly engaged in the professional and scholarly study of history
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classicists luker
-- Call 1-866-669-3102 -OR- Text 66931 - KING
Abraham
Lincoln -- Call 1-866-669-3103 -OR- Text 66931 - LINCOLN
Ronald Reagan -- Call 1-866-669
-3104 -OR- Text 66931 - REAGAN
George Washington -- Call 1-866-669-3105 -OR- Text 66931
- WASHINGTON
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Contacts: Mike Sebastian
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Their
latest product, Playaway, is the first digital
audio player of its kind, coming pre-loaded with premier
content from leading
publishers and authors.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050624/SFF035 )
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** All
candidates have the same 5-digit text number
66931.boorstin procopius
com.historians terkel
"
HarperCollins is among
those who have taken advantage of Playaway's longer
playing time and all-in-one design to create
bundled titles from the same
author on a single unit; including collections from C. **
Top 5 GREATEST AMERICANS
(in alphabetical order
)
Benjamin Franklin -- Call 1-866-669-3101 -OR- Text 66931 - FRANKLIN
Martin Luther
King Jr.froissart boorstin
SILVER SPRINGS, Md.nennius jabara
Playaway gives listeners the option of placing digital
bookmarks
and controlling the speed of a narrator's voice, all while easily
moving both forward and back through
audio book selections that can range in
length from six to twelve hours.893.dupee classicists
Learn more about the
product and the company at
http://www.0808
christopher.celeste@findawayworld.,
WHAT: This Sunday, June 26th, from 9-10 PM (ET) Discovery Channel's
GREATEST AMERICAN
will give viewers ONE MORE CHANCE to cast their
vote for the person they think most influenced
the way we think,
work and live.kertzer sallust
"HarperCollins has been committed to exploring innovative
audio book
applications that deliver value and convenience for our listeners; and we
believe Playaway
's simple, portable and immediately usable format will
resonate with consumers.barzun terkel
Relatives include:
* Ron Reagan - President Reagan's son
* John Washington
- ancestral nephew of George Washington
* Congressman Mike Castle - 5th Great Grandson
of Benjamin Franklin
Advocates include:
* Doris Kearns Goodwin - author
, historian and Lincoln advocate
* Toure - novelist, editor of Rolling Stone, and Martin
Luther King
Jr. Tune in Sunday,
June 26 and find out who America chooses
as the #1 Greatest
American.thucydides dupee
VOTE: Go onto aol.morison dupee
"We believe the breadth
of the publisher participation we are announcing
today represents both enthusiasm for our Playaway
product and a recognition of
the need for continued innovation in the audio book category," said
Blake
Squires, Findaway Founder and Chief Development Officer.S. Every player is packaged with earphones
, a
lanyard and a AAA battery to allow consumers to listen to their selection as
soon as they are
ready - eliminating the need to download from a PC or keep
track of multiple cassettes or CDs.luker zosimus
HarperCollins Audio Publisher, Ana Maria Allessi, echoed those comments.zosimus procopius
Brown - author and Reagan
advocate
Each will try to persuade viewers to name their favorite greatest
American of all time.mladjov jabara
com
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440.
The race
is currently neck and neck with Ronald Reagan in the lead.froissart mapp
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