I was prepared to find the Playaway all-in-one audibook player ridiculous. Why would anyone purchase a hardware device with a pre-loaded audiobook when downloadable audiobooks play on every smart ...

Penguin Random House Audio has acquired Playaway Products, a producer of physical audio players and tablets preloaded with content. Launched in 2005 and based in Solon, Ohio, Playaway has a catalog of ...

Playaway Products is working closely with major Spanish publishers to offer a curated selection of over 350 popular and award-winning titles for people of all ages, giving schools and libraries an ...

Playaway Products, an innovator of the preloaded-library market, knows libraries play a vital role in communities. Originator of the acclaimed Wonderbook read-along and Playaway audiobook, Playaway ...

In a nation where Spanish is the most spoken non-English language in households, libraries have often faced a challenge in providing an ample selection of Spanish content. Recognizing this gap and the ...

No matter how cheap digital audio players have gotten, the idea of selling a disposable one-time-use one would still make most consumers shrug with ambivalence. After all, the great thing about a DAP ...

"In Solon, we embrace the use of this technology because first and foremost, it is a literate behavior that literate adults participate in routinely — listening to a text while driving or traveling or ...

There's nothing like curling up in front of the virtual fire with a good audiobook. But if you've left your iPod at home, how will you edutain yourself? Playaway Digital presents ready-to-use ...

We’ll have one of these here at the office soon, so we can do a hands-on, but they’re basically mini audiobook players that are ready to go out of the box. You pull a little tab to activate the ...

What do you get when you marry the inconvenience and bulk of hardbound books to a single-function audio player reminiscent of those bulky audio tour guides they hand out at museums? If you're a ...

Audio books have always been niche-market products, and the ones with the greatest value were those read with a great writer's voice. With the arrival of MP3s, we can now put an entire book on a ...