Smart Holiday Gift Idea for Students and Parents Alike: Download 34,000 Hours of Best Selling and Classic Audiobooks, Language Learning at www.audible.com
WAYNE, N.J.--(COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Nov 24, 2003--Audible.com today announced the launch of its holiday gift center where college students can download audiobooks and more to their Apple iPods or the free Audible Otis (with membership: www.audible.com/giftcenter). Audible is the leading provider of digitally delivered spoken word audio.
Excelling in a college environment is a challenge for even the most well prepared student. With today`s students always looking for new ways to save time and take advantage of the Internet as a study resource, Audible.com brings print works to life, is easy to use, inexpensive and offers the freedom to burn your own CDs, transfer to portable MP3 players, and listen at the desktop with the free AudibleManager software. (www.audible.com/software)
AudibleListener(R) memberships can be purchased by students for parents who already enjoy audiobooks but would like to save time and money while expanding their listening options. And it`s a gift any parent would enjoy giving to their college-age children.
Audible helps students save time by allowing them to listen to course-related material, be it an Ernest Hemingway novel or the current issue of Scientific American, just one of the audio magazines available at the unique online newsstand for smart listening found at www.audible.com/subscriptions.
''I used your service to catch up on Irrational Exuberance, which was assigned for a finance class I am taking. I sometimes find it hard to keep up with class reading, but Audible helps me keep up with the assignments. I also like the environmental angle of `dematerializing` a service instead of providing a physical product that eventually ends up at the dump,'' added college student Mick Gilbert.
''Overall, Audible provides a smart, highly flexible alternative to standard books on tape or CD, especially for people who are comfortable with PCs and the Internet, and who love small digital audio players,'' concluded Walt Mossberg in The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2003.
About Audible.com
Audible.com, recently named the best consumer Web service by CNet.com (April 2003), and one of the ''Best of Today`s Web'' by PC World (August 2002) features daily audio editions of The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times � available on a subscription basis in time for the morning drive to work each day�as well as Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American and Fast Company. The site offers a powerful collection of audiobook best sellers and classics by authors such as Tom Clancy, Stephen King, John Grisham, Mary Higgins Clark, James Patterson, the Dalai Lama, David McCullough, Stephen Hawking, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and Jane Austen. There are also speeches, lectures, and on-demand radio programs including Marketplace, All Things Considered, Car Talk, Fresh Air and This American Life, and original shows such as [email protected]. All of the programs at audible.com are available for computer-based playback, burning to audio CD, and on-the-go listening using numerous AudibleReady(TM) portable digital audio players offered by leading consumer electronics and computer manufacturers.
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