Recorded Books Launches Monthly Blog and Twitter Giveaway

Prince Frederick, MD (Vocus) June 5, 2009

Recorded Books, the largest independent publisher of audiobooks for K-12 schools, is now holding monthly giveaways of audiobooks on CD at the Recorded Books K-12 blog. The giveaway for the month of June is Newbery Medal Winner The Twenty-One Balloons, in celebration of the first hot air balloon flight on June 4, 1783. Any reader who leaves a comment on the blog will be entered to win, and those who blog about the giveaway or tweet a message about it on twitter will be entered a second time. “We know that it’s difficult for some educators to make the leap to try audiobooks,” said Marketing Manager Beth Eaton, “so we want to make it easy for those interested in using audiobooks to experience them.”

The blog also features a growing collection of free lesson plans and audiobook excerpts available for download, including one for The Twenty-One Balloons. “If you’re curious about audiobooks in the classroom or have never listened to one, we encourage you to download a few clips and lesson plans and integrate them into your teaching strategies,” says Eaton. In addition to the monthly giveaways, the Recorded Books blog and twitter feeds feature news about education, literacy, audiobooks, and children’s literature.

To visit Recorded Books on the web, go to the website at http://www.recordedbooks.com/school, the blog at http://recordedbooks.wordpress.com, or the twitter stream at https://twitter.com/recordedbooks. Recorded Books twitter followers will get advance notification of all contests and giveaways and blog readers can subscribe to an RSS feed to be notified of updates.

Recorded Books Contact:

Beth Eaton: 800-638-1304 x1122

270 Skipjack Road, Prince Frederick, MD 20678

http://www.recordedbooks.com

About Recorded Books:

Recorded Books, a Haights Cross Communications company, produces and distributes unabridged audiobooks and other audio products for schools and libraries, in CD, cassette and Playaway formats. Over 9,000 titles are available for children, young adults, and adults, narrated by professional, award-winning actors. Recorded Books also publishes and distributes curriculum products including Dr. Janet Allen’s Plugged-in to Reading (http://www.pluggedintoreading.com), Plugged-in to Nonfiction, and The Alan Sitomer BookJam (http://www.thebookjam.com). Packaging is designed for high circulation. One-year warranty, cataloging, processing, and free MARC records are available. For more information, visit http://www.recordedbooks.com.

About Haights Cross Communications:

Founded in 1997 and based in White Plains, NY, Haights Cross Communications is a premier educational and library publisher dedicated to creating the finest books, audio products, periodicals, software and online services, serving the following markets: K-12 supplemental education, public library and school publishing, audiobooks, and medical continuing-education publishing. Haights Cross companies include Sundance/Newbridge Educational Publishing (Northborough, MA), Triumph Learning (New York, NY), Buckle Down Publishing (Iowa City, IA), Options Publishing (Merrimack, NH), Recorded Books (Prince Frederick, MD), and Oakstone Publishing (Birmingham, AL). For more information, visit http://www.haightscross.com.

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Recorded Books Launches Monthly Blog and Twitter Giveaway