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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Online Learning: Once upon a time, in the 21st century ... PEGGY O'CROWLEY, Star-Ledger
Next time you see kids wearing ear buds and a smile, don't assume they're rocking out to Hannah Montana. They may be listening to the classic novel "The Secret Garden." Portable listening devices -- now a decade old and ubiquitous among American children -- are being used to listen to audio books, in part shifting comprehension from the written to the spoken word. Newark-based Audible.com, the largest provider of downloadable audio books, yesterday launched its AudibleKids.com division at the North Star Academy in Newark. Dozens of middle-school students got a free Zen Stone Plus MP3 player to download some of the 4,000-plus titles on the new website. Audible has been very successful: Amazon just bought the company for $300 million.
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