Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Teams Up with Audible to Highlight Captivating Performances Meant to Be Heard
May 22 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Announcing Reese’s Book Club x Hello
Sunshine on Audible, introducing dynamic female-driven listening
experiences each month
Hello Sunshine and Audible will also
collaborate to develop original productions uniquely suited to the
Audible audience
Audible Inc., the world’s largest seller and producer of
downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment, today
announced a new collaboration with Reese Witherspoon’s Hello
Sunshine, a media company focused on
telling women’s stories. Reese’s Book Club x Hello
Sunshine on Audible will identify and showcase
outstanding audio performances featuring strong female characters
in a new monthly component of Reese’s influential book club. The
first month for Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine on
Audible will be June, and additional information can be found
at www.audible.com/reesesbookclub.
Additionally, Audible and Hello Sunshine will work together on
the development of original audio productions, with the first
Audible Original by Hello Sunshine to be announced later
this year.
“When I started Reese’s book club, I wanted to highlight stories
with women at the center and I’m so excited to deliver on that
mission,” says Witherspoon. “With our busy lives, it can be
hard to find the time to read. That’s why I am excited to work with
Audible to provide a fun way to listen to beautiful stories in your
free time, whether it’s enjoying a book in the car or on a morning
walk.”
“Since its earliest days, Audible has been committed to creating
unforgettable listening experiences through a powerfully intimate
aesthetic meant to be heard,” said Audible founder and CEO Don
Katz. “We are thrilled to be working with Reese, who has shown
time and again her eye for identifying unforgettable stories, and
with Hello Sunshine, a brand known for its creative storytelling,
to create what is sure to be a rich palette of captivating
spoken-word performances our millions of listeners will love.”
“We are proud to enter the expanding audio storytelling
landscape with Audible through our Audible Originals by Hello
Sunshine collaboration,” says Sarah Harden, CEO of Hello
Sunshine. “This signifies a major push for Hello Sunshine into
long-form narrative audio originals, expanding opportunities for us
to continue to partner with leading creators to bring to life
female-centered narratives that are best told in, and created
specifically for, audio.”
With a 30-day membership trial at Audible, new listeners can
enjoy any one audiobook, including Reese’s Book Club x
Hello Sunshine on Audible selections, free.
Audible invented and commercialized the first digital audio
player in 1997, and has since been at the forefront of the
explosively growing audiobook download segment. In 2017, listeners
around the world downloaded over two billion hours of Audible
content.
ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC.
Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary
(NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken
audio content, 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 425,000 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.
ABOUT HELLO SUNSHINE
Hello Sunshine is a media brand and content company dedicated to
female authorship and storytelling across all platforms. Hello
Sunshine is producing feature films, television shows as well as
unscripted series, audio storytelling and social series under the
Hello Sunshine brand, all anchored by a singular mission: to change
the narrative for women. Hello Sunshine is also the home for
Reese’s Book Club, fast-growing in reach and influence. Some of the
film and TV projects that have already been announced by Hello
Sunshine include the highly-anticipated limited series from Reese
Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, based on Celeste Ng’s 2017
bestseller Little Fires Everywhere, as a Hulu Original
Series, a 10-episode comedy series for Apple executive produced by
and starring Kristen Wiig that was created by Colleen
McGuinness (30 Rock) and inspired by Curtis Sittenfeld's
short-story collection You Think It, I'll Say It; Are You
Sleeping, executive produced by and starring Octavia Spencer,
which is based on the true-crime novel by Kathleen Barber that is
created and written by Nichelle Tramble Spellman (The
Good Wife, Justified) for Apple; an Untitled Morning Show
Project produced by and starring Jennifer Aniston and
Reese Witherspoon, which was given a two-season, straight-to-series
order by Apple with Kerry Ehrin (Bates Motel) serving as
showrunner; a film for Fox 2000 based on Catherine Steadman's
novel Something in the Water, being adapted by
Julia Cox; and A White Lie, a psychological
thriller for TriStar Pictures produced by and
starring Zendaya based on Karin Tanabe’s
critically-acclaimed novel The Gilded Years, which will
be adapted by Monica Beletsky (Fargo, The Leftovers).
Hello Sunshine recently launched its first original podcast
series, How It Is, featuring powerful, personal stories told
by a diverse group of high-profile women and hosted by actor and
author Diane Guerrero (Orange Is The New Black, Jane the Virgin) as
well as a series on Facebook Watch, Meet My Mom which is an honest
and entertaining chat between your favorite celebrities and their
moms.
View source
version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180522005563/en/
Audible.comEsther Bochnerbochnere@audible.com
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)
Historical Stock Chart
From Mar 2024 to Apr 2024
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)
Historical Stock Chart
From Apr 2023 to Apr 2024