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27

Field Trip announcement and Playaway update


First, the update, from a comment left by the Plain Dealer’s Chris Seper (thank you, Chris) at this WLST post:

I’d say the Kindle and Playaway are dramatically different products. The Kindle is text, the Playaway is a self-contained audiobook.

I know there was talk of adding video to the Playaway line way back when, but never take over as an e-reader.

They’ve moved a lot of their production from Mexico and overseas to NEO, and Playaway has found a consistent spot in the audiobook space.

Then, Chris Celeste, founder and president of Playaway, left this information:

We have doubled every year since introducing the product in 2005 and will end 2007 having built and shipped out more than 400,000 Playaways from our location here in NEO. We have signed 55 publishers on board who have provided us with more than 1200 titles to date. And after two years of hard work by a team that now numbers north of 50 people, Playaway can be found in 1,000+ retail locations nationwide, as well as more than 6,000+ public libraries and schools.

And here’s where the field trip invite comes in: Chris invites us for a tour of their facility in Solon.  As noted by Chris Seper, Playaway has “moved a lot of their production from Mexico and overseas to NEO…” and wouldn’t it be great to show support for such moves by checking it out and blogging about it?

Celeste says that mornings are best, Tuesday through Thursday, this month, next month, whenever.

If you’re interested, please leave a comment and/or e-mail me.  Before the holidays is fine, especially if you’re a bookworm type or have people on your lists who are, but January works too.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:30 am November 27th, 2007 in Announcements, Blogging, Business, Cleveland+, Marketing, Ohio, Tech 

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3 Responses to “Field Trip announcement and Playaway update”

  1. 1 Caroline Barni on November 27th, 2007 11:45 am

    Hi,
    I wanted to make sure our new info was updated through your link above.

    Based on our continued growth, we moved to a new location this past April. Our new address is:
    31999 Aurora Road
    Solon, OH 44139

    If you would like to come in for a visit, please feel free to contact me at 1-877-893-0808 x121.

    Thanks for your interest in Playaway,
    Caroline Barni
    Director of Marketing + PR

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on November 28th, 2007 12:03 am

    Thanks, Caroline – will do.

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