Arianna Huffington Writes and Performs Goodnight Smartphone for Audible
January 17 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
The Classic Tale Reborn for the Modern Age
is Now Available Free on Audible.com!
Audible Studios, a production arm of Audible.com, today
announced the release of Goodnight Smartphone, a soothing and
playful adaptation of childhood classics including Margaret Wise
Brown’s beloved children’s story Goodnight Moon for the digital
age, written and performed exclusively for Audible by author,
columnist, and Thrive Global founder and CEO Arianna Huffington.
This production is now available for free download at
audible.com/goodnight.
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Goodnight Smartphone, written and
performed by Arianna Huffington, available exclusively from Audible
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The audiobook includes an original score and a new introduction,
also written and performed by Huffington, about her own nightly
sleep regimen, why this story is so important to her, and how this
recording can help people achieve the good night’s sleep they need
to become their best selves during the day.
“When I visited Audible’s headquarters in Newark, New Jersey
several months ago to speak to employees about the benefits of
sleep, I joked that there should be versions of wonderful books
like Goodnight Moon for grownups,” said Huffington, whose author
credits include Thrive and The Sleep Revolution. “The lovely team
at Audible suggested that I write and narrate my vision, and
Goodnight Smartphone was born. I’m delighted to share my
reimagining of one of my favorite books to address the particular
challenges of today’s adults, where the hardest thing to say
goodnight to is not the moon, but our cell phones, our e-mail, and
our social media.”
“We are thrilled to have inspired Arianna Huffington to express
her passion for turning sleep into productivity in the audio
format,” said Audible EVP and Publisher Beth Anderson. “Listeners
will love hearing her recognizable voice remind them to put their
electronics away for the night, hopefully on behalf of a meaningful
slumber.”
In addition to Arianna Huffington, among the acclaimed
performers who have narrated works of literature for Audible are
Sean Penn, Nick Offerman, Zachary Quinto, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lily
Collins, Emma Thompson, James Franco, and Jesse Eisenberg. In 2013,
Audible Studios won its first Grammy Award, for its production of
Janis Ian’s memoir Society’s Child, and also won the Audie Award
for Audiobook of the Year, for Colin Firth’s performance of Graham
Greene’s The End of the Affair.
Audible, the world’s largest seller and producer of downloadable
audiobooks and other spoken-word content, invented and
commercialized the first digital audio player in 1997, and has
since been at the forefront of the explosively growing audiobook
download segment. Audible members downloaded an average of more
than 17 books over the course of the year. More than half of new
Audible members are first-time audiobook buyers.
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
325,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers,
broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and
business information providers. Audible is also the preeminent
provider of spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes
Store.
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Audible.comEsther Bochner, 973-820-0781bochnere@audible.com
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