CHANTILLY, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Great Courses, now celebrating its 25th year as the leading global media brand for lifelong learning, held eight of the top ten spots on Audible’s list of non-fiction best sellers this week for the first time since The Great Courses began offering content on Audible in 2013.
“This partnership with Audible has allowed us to reach an even larger audience of lifelong learners who want on-demand learning that’s available when and where they want it,” said Ed Leon, chief brand officer of The Great Courses. "More people than ever are accessing our courses, whether it’s through Audible, on the inflight entertainment systems on Virgin America, via our proprietary streaming technology, or through our traditional mail-order model. We’re growing across all platforms.”
The Great Courses currently offers more than 400 courses on Audible – that’s more than 9,000 hours of engaging content across a wide spectrum of academic, professional, and popular interest areas from literature to economics to photography, all taught by the world’s most acclaimed professors and experts.
Eight titles from The Great Courses made it to Audible’s list of non-fiction best sellers for the week ending May 9, 2015:
- The Wright Brothers (Simon & Schuster Audio)
- Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques (The Great Courses)
- Cultural Literacy for Religion: Everything the Well-Educated Person Should Know (The Great Courses)
- The Art of Negotiating the Best Deal (The Great Courses)
- The Entrepreneur's Toolkit (The Great Courses)
- The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery (Amber Allen Publishing Inc.)
- Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, (The Great Courses)
- The Skeptic's Guide to American History (The Great Courses)
- The Art of Conflict Management: Achieving Solutions for Life, Work, and Beyond (The Great Courses)
- Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior (The Great Courses)
Audible, the world’s largest seller of digital spoken-word content, invented and commercialized the first digital audio player in 1997, and has since been at the forefront of the explosively growing audiobook download segment.
The Great Courses is reaching milestones this year, its 25th, with more than 15 million courses sold to a worldwide community of ardent lifelong learners, including longtime fan Bill Gates – who has touted his favorite great courses in The New York Times, Fast Company and on “60 Minutes.” The company has ongoing partnerships with premier content brands The Culinary Institute of America, National Geographic, and the Smithsonian.
About The Great Courses
The Great Courses is the nation’s leading developer and marketer of premium-quality media for lifelong learning and personal enrichment. Delivered in engaging, expertly produced video and audio (in convenient online, digital, and disc formats), these carefully crafted courses provide access to a world of knowledge from the most accomplished professors and experts. The content-rich, proprietary library spans more than 530 titles with more than 7,000 hours and 14,000 lectures designed to expand horizons, deepen understanding, and foster epiphanies in the arts, science, literature, self-improvement, history, music, philosophy, theology, economics, mathematics, business, professional advancement, personal growth, and high school curriculum. Creating unique learning experiences since 1990, The Great Courses is the premier brand of The Teaching Company of Chantilly, Virginia, which is owned by Los Angeles-based Brentwood Associates. More information can be found at www.thegreatcourses.com.