Audible to Provide Free Audible Memberships and Fire Tablets to All Newark High School Students and Their Teachers
November 29 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Effort honors Newark and its students’
transformational impact on Audible, as the company marks the
20th anniversary of its digital service and its
10th anniversary in Newark
Audible Inc., the world’s largest seller and producer of digital
spoken-word entertainment, today announced it will give all ~15,000
Newark high school students and teachers a year of Audible
membership, including 12 credits to download and own any of the
375,000+ titles in Audible’s unparalleled library of digital
audiobooks and other educational programming. To make use of their
free Audible memberships, each Newark student and teacher will
receive a free Amazon Fire 7-inch 8GB tablet with Alexa and
headphones.
Rolling out today with a distribution event at Technology High
School in Newark, the Audible “Project Listen Up” initiative will
provide all participants with an enhanced Audible membership
experience that includes a free bundle of 150+ “recommended
reading” titles identified by Newark educators and Audible experts.
Students and teachers will keep the content, tablets, and
headphones even after their free membership ends.
“Audible is a better company and a better place to work because
of our decision to move to Newark ten years ago and include so many
Newark high school and college students and Newark-born and
educated people as our paid interns and employees,” said Audible
founder and CEO Don Katz. “As our interns who get free access to
Audible memberships already know, students, parents, and teachers
consistently tell us how powerfully listening to Audible has made a
difference – whether it engenders a lasting love of stories, builds
active vocabulary, helps with academics, or simply allows people to
fit more books into their lives.”
“As we mark 20 years since we launched Audible.com and 10 years
since we moved to Newark, we want to say thank you to our adopted
hometown and its citizens by giving each high school student and
teacher in Newark – including both district and charter high
schools – access to Audible, including more than 150 free titles
selected by Newark educators and Audible editors,” Katz added.
“A critical focus of our teachers is generating excitement about
learning, and bringing people into books,” said Christopher D.
Cerf, Superintendent of Newark Public Schools. “Audible opens up a
world of adventure, a world of excitement, a world of learning. And
as an increasing number of students prefer digitally delivered
media, access to Audible facilitates a range of learning
choices.”
“Audible is mobile for me and increases the flexibility of my
time,” said Ama Hagan, a senior at the North Star Academy charter
school in Newark. “You can multitask and when you’re listening, you
get deeper into the book because you hear the narrator as the
different characters. Audible enhances my understanding of
literature assignments and I’m able to even get more evidence and
write better essays than in previous years.”
“We want our students to get into the habit of reading
spontaneously and independently on their own time,” said Michael
Mann, Head of School at North Star Academy. “Beyond enriching and
reinforcing their learning, we believe Audible can spur an
immediate increase in students’ ability to read for pleasure, in
more interesting ways and to a greater extent.”
“We would like to thank our publishing partners who helped put
together this program for Newark students,” said Katz.
Among the scientifically verified benefits of the power of
listening to literature for developing readers are:
- Audiobooks teach critical listening,
increase vocabulary, and build foundational skills for listening,
speaking, and writing.
- Learning to listen at a high level is a
predictor of learning to read at a high level.
- Listening has been shown to improve
students’ enjoyment of and interest in literature.
- Listening significantly helps
struggling readers to better understand text, helping them learn
more effectively and lifting their reading comprehension.
All other participating students and teachers will receive their
Audible annual memberships, access to their free bundle of 150+
“recommended reading” titles, Fire tables, and headphones at a
series of distribution events in Newark beginning in January
2018.
Audible experts will be available throughout the distribution
process to provide “white glove” support to all students and
teachers in activating their memberships and accessing their free
content, and to make recommendations.
For more information on Audible’s “Project Listen Up,” please
visit www.audible.com/projectlistenup.
About Audible, Inc.
Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN), is
the leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information
and entertainment, offering customers a new way to enhance and
enrich their lives every day. Audible was created to unleash the
emotive music in language and the habituating power and utility of
verbal expression. Audible content includes more than 375,000 audio
programs from leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters,
entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business
information providers. Audible is also the provider of spoken-word
audio products for Apple’s iTunes Store.
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