Creative Content Signs Partnership with WF Howes!

We are pleased and proud to announce that we have signed a partnership with W.F. Howes Ltd, the UK’s leading publisher of unabridged audiobooks. The new partnership will provide W.F. Howes with exclusive rights to distribute new audiobook titles for Creative Content in physical and digital editions for libraries, as well as CD editions for retail trade.

In addition to audio books, Howes will be selling our eBooks, becoming an important addition to our wide range of vendors.

We are thrilled about this new venture with W.F. Howes, as it will allow us to market to an even wider customer base, and we’re especially pleased that our audio editions will now be available in physical CD format.

We are very excited about the opportunities this will open up for our authors and customers!

Here's the press release in full:

W.F.Howes signs partnership with Creative Content

In brief:

• W.F.Howes will be the exclusive Library Audiobook distributor for Creative Content supplying libraries worldwide with Download editions as well as CD and other physical formats to the retail trade.
• Available Audiobook titles include Business Guides, Lifestyle, Self-Help, Fiction and Non-Fiction.

Leicester UK, 28th July 2014 – W.F.Howes Ltd, the UK’s leading publisher of unabridged audiobooks, and subsidiary of Recorded Books Inc., today announced it has signed a partnership with Creative Content Ltd., a London-based digital audio and eBook publisher. The new partnership provides W.F.Howes with exclusive rights to distribute audiobook titles for Creative Content on physical and digital editions in libraries, as well as CD editions to retail trade markets. Digital download editions will be distributed on W.F.Howes’ market leading digital platform for libraries, OneClickdigital.

Founded by the former Audio Publisher for Macmillan and chair of the Audio Publishers Association, Ali Muirden, and award-winning actress and narrator Lorelei King, Creative Content’s portfolio ranges from crime fiction to classics, as well as a large variety of non-fiction guides on topics ranging from cultural business practices and self-help books to political essays and history.

Dominic White, Head of Publishing and Commerce, W.F.Howes commented: “We are delighted to be working closely with Creative Content to increase their readership and this is a fantastic opportunity to provide libraries with a greater choice of non-fiction audiobooks.”

Ali Muirden, Creative Content commented: “We are thrilled about this new venture with W.F. Howes which will enable us to market our ever- growing list of titles to an expanding customer base on a wider range of media.  We are particularly excited about the opportunities that this new distribution agreement will open up for our authors and customers alike.”

About W F Howes Ltd:

W.F.Howes Ltd, a subsidiary of Recorded Books Inc., is the UK’s leading audiobook, digital services and large print publisher, releasing around 60 new unabridged audiobooks every month under a number of imprints including Clipper, Jammer, Avid, Lamplight, Nudged, Jammer Teen and Whole Story Audiobooks. The publisher’s digital arm provides eAudiobook and eBook lending to the library market through the OneClickdigital platform, alongside several other platforms specialising in same-day newspapers and magazines, adult learning and language tutorial programs. For more information, visit www.wfhowes.co.uk and www.wholestoryaudio.co.uk or email info@wfhowes.co.uk.

About Recorded Books Inc.:

Recorded Books is the largest independent publisher of unabridged audiobooks and provider of digital content to the library, school, and retail markets. The Company owns an exclusive catalogue of over 13,500 audiobook titles narrated by professional, award-winning actors. Recorded Books provides digital audiobooks and eBooks to libraries through its proprietary OneClick Digital platform, as well as electronic resources, including digital magazines and films, through its proprietary RBdigital Gateway platform. The Company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Prince Frederick, MD. For more information, visit www.recordedbooks.com.

About Creative Content Ltd:

Creative Content was founded in 2008 by Ali Muirden, formerly the Audio Publisher for Macmillan UK and the award winner narrator and actress Lorelei King. 

Ali Muirden has worked in publishing for over 30 years and has been an Audio book Publisher since 1998. She is the former chair of the Audio Publishers Association (APA) in the UK, a voluntary organization devoted to promoting awareness and sales of audio books in the UK. She is Audie award-winning  and Grammy nominated audio book producer and also runs an audio publishing consultancy business. 

Lorelei King is a multi award-winning narrator of audiobooks from best-selling authors such as Janet Evanovich, Sue Grafton and Patricia Cornwell among others. Lorelei is also a writer and script editor, and is currently working on the BBC animation series ’Chuggington’.

Creative Content is a digital publisher, specialising in top quality audio and eBook content which is available world-wide for download.  For more information about Creative Content please visit www.creativecontentdigital.com

For further information and images please contact:

E. james.woodman@wfhowes.co.uk

T. 01164 423 000

W. www.wfhowes.co.uk or www.wholestoryaudio.co.uk

Twitter: @WFhowes @WholeStoryAudio