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Audiobooks

The Digital Media Division positions HBG content in the expanding world of Internet technology and other currently evolving business models, which includes any e-book or audiobook business as well as Internet downloads, podcasting, and digital delivery to cellphones and PDAs. The Digital Media Division also houses the Hachette Audio imprint, publisher of a variety of popular genres in audio form, matching HBGUSA material with talented actors, composers and producers to find its fullest expression. Abridged, unabridged and original audio, including Grammy award-winning programs, are primarily based on books published by Grand Central Publishing and Little, Brown & Company. Gildan Audio, a line of self-help and language learning programs, is a distribution client. Programs are available on CD and as digital download.

Maja Thomas is SVP, Digital and Audio Publishing. She also holds the position of VP Digital Publishing for the Group Hachette Livre. Maja is the Co-Chair of the AAP Digital Issues Working Group, focusing on digital publishing strategy, and Chair of Hachette’s International Board for Digital Issues. In the U.S., Maja is responsible for Hachette’s audio, ebook, print-on-demand and large print programs, some of the fasting growing segments of the publishing business. In addition, she heads up a team re-imagining and re-designing the Hachette Book Group website. Under her aegis, the audio division has had ten Grammy award nominations, and in the year 2000 received the Best Spoken Word Album Grammy for THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., which Maja produced and directed.  In 2005, The Daily Show and Jon Stewart’s AMERICA (The Audiobook) received the Grammy for best Comedy Album as well as the Quills Award for best Audio of the Year. In 2007, Hachette Audio shared the Grammy Award for Spoken Word Album for OSSIE AND RUBY: IN THIS LIFE TOGETHER.

Anthony Goff (Publisher Director) started his career in 1993 at Dow Jones Inc. working for The Wall Street Journal and Barrons. In 1995 he made his foray into book publishing in marketing at St. Martin's Press, before jumping into sales at Penguin USA during the Stephen King Green Mile phenomenon, and then managing Advertising and Promotions for Dutton/Plume. In 1997 Anthony was hired by Simon & Schuster, where he stayed, in various positions, for 7 years. In 2003 he moved to Time Warner AudioBooks as Marketing Director, and was responsible for making a run at Audiobook of the Year with THE DAILY SHOW PRESENTS: AMERICA (the Audiobook) before being promoted to Associate Publisher and the rest is history, as they say...

Hachette Audio is publisher of a variety of popular genres in audio form, matching HBG books with talented actors, composers, and producers to find its fullest expression. Abridged, unabridged, and original audio, including Grammy award-winning programs, are primarily based on books published by Grand Central Publishing, Little, Brown & Company, and Faith Words, and are available on CD and as digital download.

Audiobooks

Featured Books

  • Cross Country
  • Cross Country

  • By James Patterson

  • After Alex and his girlfriend, Brianna Stone, become entangled in the deadly Nigerian underworld of Washington D.C., they make a shocking discovery: a stunningly organized gang of lethal teenagers headed by a powerful, diabolical man--the African warlord known as the Tiger. Just when the detectives think they're closing in on the elusive murderer, the Tiger disappears into thin air. Tracking him to Africa, Alex knows that he must follow. Alone.
     

     
    This audiobook is read by the returning voice of Alex Cross, accomplished actor Peter Jay Fernandez, and by Dion Graham of HBO's The Wire.
  • Divine Justice
  • Divine Justice

  • By David Baldacci

  • By Joyce Meyer

  • Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone's past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone's freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States Government to unleash a massive manhunt. With their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club must fend for themselves, even as they try to protect him. As forces close in, Stone's flight from the demons of his past will take him far from Washington, D.C., to the coal-mining town of Devine, Virginia--and headlong into a confrontation every bit as lethal as the one he is trying to escape.

    Read by popular actor and author Ron McLarty, who has narrated several other David Baldacci titles for Hachette Audio.

     

    Available Simultaneously: THE CAMEL CLUB AUDIO BOX SET. The first three books in the Camel Club series are now available in a set for the value price of one audiobook!

  • 100 Ways to Simplify Your Life
  • 100 Ways to Simplify Your Life

  • By Joyce Meyer

  • Many want a simple life, but find it difficult to actually live that way. They fight a constant battle to balance work, family, friends, and other demands on schedules stretched too thin. 

    Joyce Meyer breaks it down to the simple principle of exercising faith rather than doubt and confidence rather than people-pleasing. She writes from her experience of struggling to balance work, family, friends, and all the other demands on limited time to show readers the simple answer to a simpler life. Joyce reminds readers that the Bible is full of examples of God's provision and His instruction to focus on one day at a time.

     

    This audio edition is read with passion and conviction by Joyce's youngest daughter, Sandra McCollom.

Featured Authors

  • Malcolm Gladwell

  • An exciting new title from

  • Malcolm Gladwell

  • Our audiobook edition of OUTLIERS features a revealing conversation about Malcolm's childhood in Canada, and the factors that helped him become an "outlier" in his own right. Listen to the entire audiobook to hear a chapter devoted to his family's intriguing past, and then keep listening for this intriguing extra.

  • Ted Turner

  • Get To Know

  • Ted Turner

  • "Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!"

     These words of fatherly advice helped shape Ted Turner's remarkable life, but they only begin to explain the colorful, energetic, and unique style that has made Ted into one of the most amazing personalities of our time (a style that is present in every word he speaks in this audiobook).  An innovative entrepreneur, outspoken nonconformist, and groundbreaking philanthropist, Ted Turner is truly a living legend, and now, for the first time, he reveals his personal story. From his difficult childhood to the successful launch of his media empire to the catastrophic AOL/Time Warner deal, Turner spares no details or feelings and takes the reader along on a wild and sometimes bumpy ride. 

     Ted doesn't shrink from the darker and more intimate details of his life. With his usual frankness, he discusses a childhood of loneliness and the emotional impact of devastating losses. Turner is also forthcoming about his marriages, including the one to Oscar-winning actress, Jane Fonda.

    In this audio edition CALL ME TED, you'll hear Ted Turner's distinctive voice as he tells you what makes him tick and what ticks him off. Inspiring and entertaining, CALL ME TED sheds new light on one of the greatest visionaries of our time.

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