NEW YORK, June 5, 2008 — Hachette Digital Media, a division of Hachette Book Group USA, launches a partnership with Zipidee, a rapidly growing digital media marketplace. Maja Thomas, Senior VP, HBGUSA Audio & Digital Media, announced, “In celebration of the launch of HBG’s new website, and the publication of David Sedaris’s new book WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES, we will make a digital download of the audiobook available for sale to the consumer on www.hbgusa.com and www.WhenYouAreEngulfedinFlames.com. We look forward to the continuing experimentation and innovation the digital frontier provides.”
In concert with their recent website relaunch, Hachette Book Group has chosen to sell this version of David Sedaris’s newest audiobook through the Zipidee widget, which can be found on the HBG homepage as well as the book’s official site. This is the first book that HBG will sell directly through its site, using Zipidee’s exciting new technology in the form of a widget that can also be shared on websites and blogs.
When You Are Engulfed in Flames is Sedaris’s sixth collection of essays. Both humorous and provoking, the stories examine awkward airplane mishaps, neurotic birds, and other bizarre moments of life, which Sedaris uses to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. PW’s forthcoming starred review of this audiobook raves, “Sedaris’s sparkling essays always shimmer even more brightly when read aloud by the author. And his expert timing, mimicry and droll asides are never more polished than during live performances in front of an audience. Happily, four of the 22 new pieces are live recordings and listeners can hear Sedaris’s energy increase from the roaring, rolling laughter of the appreciative audience.”
“We’re excited to team up with Hachette Book Group and David Sedaris to offer this great audiobook,” said Henry Wong, Zipidee’s CEO. “David’s dedicated fans can now purchase or showcase the audiobook on their site through our widget.” Zipidee is the Internet’s fastest-growing digital marketplace, specializing in entertainment, independent, educational, instructional, and special interest programming. Shoppers around the globe can access their content library of video, audiobooks, and eBooks on-demand, whenever, wherever they want.
About Hachette Book Group USA
Hachette Book Group USA is a leading trade publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the second-largest publisher in the world. Hachette Book Group USA's product lines include adult, illustrated, religious, children's and audio books under the Little, Brown and Company, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Grand Central Publishing, FaithWords, Center Street, Orbit, Yen Press and Hachette Book Group Digital Media imprints. Its bestselling authors include Ansel Adams, Sherman Alexie, Marc Brown, David Baldacci, Jimmy Buffett, Michael Connelly, Nelson DeMille, Malcolm Gladwell, Lisi Harrison, Robert Kiyosaki, Brad Meltzer, Joyce Meyer, Stephenie Meyer, Walter Mosley, James Patterson, David Sedaris, Anita Shreve, Nicholas Sparks, and Cecily von Ziegesar.
About Zipidee
Zipidee powers the Internet’s largest digital marketplace for instructional, educational, entertainment, health and fitness, sports, and special interest content through its destination marketplace Zipidee.com and also through its Content On-Demand Widgets®. Zipidee’s Content On-Demand Widgets® are fully transactional, handling the preview, purchase, and fulfillment of digital content. Each widget has an embeddable code that can be copied and pasted into any web environment for viral distribution. Our platform provides the tools for media owners, from aspiring media moguls to large media companies, to market and sell digital products, including video, audio (books and music), eBooks, mobile content, and more, by publishing and creating customized Content On-Demand Widgets®. Zipidee has a rapidly expanding seller network of more than 1000 content producers and distributors and over 150,000 repeat customers. The Zipidee platform receives over 500,000 visitors per month, browsing through more than 1.5 million pages of digital goods for sale. By giving sellers the freedom to choose how they distribute their digi-goods, from business model to price point, Zipidee allows buyers and sellers to rule and transact in an open and distributed marketplace. Zipidee is a privately held San Francisco-based company and is venture-backed by leading investors. For additional information on the Zipidee marketplace, please visit www.zipidee.com, www.totalvid.com, and www.videowaza.com.
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