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Time For A Giveaway! Enter To Win ‘Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh’!

Jon Rezin — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:09:59 +0000

The response to our release of the ‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah’ audiobook has been incredible.. but Its time to turn it up a notch! We have partnered with the worlds largest audio book retailer (Audible.com) to release our titles on their sites. To celebrate, we are offering 25 downloadable copies of ‘Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh’ from Audible.com for FREE!

That’s right, 25 lucky supporters will receive a downloadable copy of ‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah’ from Audible for FREE! Simply click below to enter our giveaway. The more you share, the more chance you have to win! (sharing is caring, isn’t it?)

The drawing ends December 22nd at 12am (UTC). The winner will be drawn on Dec 23rd.

Please don’t hesitate, click the button above and enter to win, share it with you friends, and help us get the word out… the more you share, the more people will know this resource exists… and the more chances you receive to win your own copy!

Help Support High Quality Baha’i Audio Books

Jon Rezin — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:16:05 +0000

HearTheWritings.com has been a passion of ours for years. That passion for high quality audio books has driven our efforts to create titles as our resources permit… but it is time to ramp it up! If you love quality Baha’i audio books, we need your help!

Manufacturing CD sets of our audio books has been a stumbling block in our production process for some time now. Generating the funds to make it available in CD format comes with large upfront costs which, quite frankly, we have had to find work-arounds for because we are putting our resources into creating definitive and timeless audio book versions of the Sacred writings. So.. we had an idea… Why not allow our community of supporters help us bring these books into reality!

We decided to launch a crowd funding campaign to help us raise the funds needed to manufacture physical copies of our audio books.. We can focus on creating it and you can help us bring it out into the world! Its siple and powerful.. but it requires your participation!

Here is where we are at with our Crowdfunding Goal for the ‘Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh’ audio book..

We have just a few days left to hit our crowdfunding goal, so we need your help! Please share this post with your friends, family and community!

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Here is some basic info about what we are doing:

Q: What is Crowdfunding?

A: Crowdfunding is a way that we can empower our family of supporters to contribute to making what they want become reality. By supporting the crowdfunding campaign you are helping raise funds that would otherwise be very difficult for us to come up with. This also acts as a sort of ‘Pre-Order’ of the physical CD sets… As people support the effort they are actually pre-ordering the CD sets at a significant discount from the retail.

Q: Why don’t you just sell downloads?

A: We do… they are available on the website here. But not everyone around the world has access to MP3 players or portable players. CDs are ubiquitous. Every car has a CD player, DVD players can play CDs, most people know how to use CD’s at this point (think “Grandma and Grandpa”) and in many developing countries around the world CD is still the media format of choice. Making the audio CD sets available enables more people to have access to the writings than we could possibly do through downloads alone… but there is a significant cost to producing physical copies.. hence, the crowd funding campaign.

Q: Which audio book title are you trying to manufacture?

A: The first title we are trying to manufacture through the participation of our supporters is ‘Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh, Revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas’. This particular title is nearly 8 hours in length and will span 7 CDs! To manufacture a 7 CD set costs a lot of money ($4500) so it seemed the perfect title to get our community involved directly in supporting its creation.

Q: If I support the crowdfunding campaign can I get the download while I wait for the CDs to be manufactured?

A: Yes! There are many different levels at which our friends can contribute and each level comes with its own special gifts. Anyone who contributes $25 or more gets the download for free… contribute at the next level up and you get the CDs as well!

Q: What if you don’t get all the money you need to manufacture.. will you still be able to make the CD sets?

A: Yes we will… we are considering all pre-orders of the CD set as a contribution to the manufacturing fund.. so that will help us reach the goal.. But, if we still fall short of the goal even with all the combined orders and contributions, we will need to look into other forms of funding to make up the difference. We are working on possibilities to still get it out to our community as quickly as possible without compromising quality.

Q: What if you surpass your goal?

A: The surplus money will go into manufacturing our other titles. We are working at creating a library of the finest audio books of the Sacred, Historical and secondary texts of the Faith… so we will be pouring our resources into making those available in physical formats as well.

That’s it! A simple concept, but incredibly powerful at enabling our community to participate and help bring ideas to reality by supporting with their contributions. Do you want to be a part of helping bring the writings to life? Click here to contribute…

HearTheWritings.com Profiled In The American Bahá’í News

Jon Rezin — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:43:07 +0000

Audio books are a new phenomenon, which make Bahá’í audio books cutting edge. In fact Bahá’í audio books are such a new endeavor that only a handful of individuals around the world are taking part in this creative pioneering endeavor.

The world at large has realized the power in audio versions of books, evidenced by the ever expanding aisles of audio books in the few remaining booksellers. It seems that it is just a matter of time before the Bahá’í community, thirsting for ways to deepen their knowledge and develop a closer relationship with Bahá’u’lláh, recognizes that audio books of the sacred, historical and secondary texts are an amazing resource for their personal and collective deepening efforts.

HearTheWritings.com is in the transformation business. Transforming time which is under used, and where the individual is mentally available into an opportunity to deepen in the writings. In LA, the average person spends two hours stuck in traffic each day.. . can you imagine how consecrated and knowledgable the friends would be if even a fraction of that time was devoted to listening to Bahá’í audio books over the course of a year? The examples go on, and on… and the stories keep coming in and in… of people who have used the audio books to heighten their deepening experience, who hadn’t previously been able to study the guidance, but were now listening to it over and over, to those who are using moments of mental availability to create an extraordinary deepening experience.

With all this passion we feel about the importance of audio books of the Faith, you can imagine how thrilled we were to be contacted with an interview request by the editor of the American Bahá’í. We shared numerous stories and experiences.. only a handful made it into the article.. but we were grateful for the opportunity to share what we are doing.

You can find those interviews in The American Bahá’í News as well as on the Official Website of the Bahá’is of the United States.

Please click over and read through the article. Please share it with your friends and community.

http://www.bahai.us/2011/07/26/hear-hear-bahai-audio-books-talks-promote-understanding/

Thank you for supporting the work we are lovingly pursuing.

We need your vote: Help us choose our next releases.

Jon Rezin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:09:02 +0000

Hello Listeners… Look at your bookcase, now back to our site, now back at your bookcase, now back to our site. Sadly that bookcase isn’t on our site. But if you stopped for a moment and told us which books you want to hear perhaps they could be on our site. Look down, back up.. where are you? Your on a boat with the audio book your books could sound like… Whats in your hand? back at me.. I have it. It’s an oyster with 2 copies of that audio book you love. Look again… the audio books are now diamonds! Anything is possible when your books are on HearTheWritings.com. I’m on a horse.

We couldn’t help ourselves!.. but all silly commercials aside… We want you to help us decide what titles to do next so please take a moment and share your choices and you might just see them on HearTheWritings.com in the near future:

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The Results are in! HearTheWritings.com’s twitter contest rocked!

Jon Rezin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:24:40 +0000

First off we want to share how grateful we are to everyone who made the effort to share HearTheWritings.com with their friends and family. Without your assistance no one would ever know about this resource. Here are some details which show just how effective your efforts to promote HearTheWritings.com were:

In 4 Days We Had:

Over 560 Visits to HearTheWritings.com (485 of them were new visitors)
Visitors came from over 48 countries!
519 people listen to the intro to The Advent of Divine Justice
Started with 1 follower on twitter and now have 52 followers.
Went from 0 fans to over 130 on our facebook fan page.

These statistics are in addition to the heart warming messages of encouragement and excitement which we received from around the globe. People wrote expressing their appreciation as well as forwarding our site to all of their friends via email. This outpouring of support has been amazing and we appreciate all efforts to spread the word both large and small. With your help we can let the community know we exist and that there is a resource for quality Baha’i Audio Books. Please help the word continue to spread and share the results of the contest on your twitter and blogs. Well… In our first ever Twitter contest for The Advent of Divine Justice by Shoghi Effendi here are the results!:

WINNERS OF 4 AUDIO CD SET: (PHYSICAL COPY)

1. @wheathwave
2. @Borna761
3. @jaromematthew

WINNERS OF MP3 CD: (PHYSICAL COPY)

4. @designfacet
5. @LstInTheSeeThru
5. @caitan
6. @Super_Guy
7. @danger_gurl
8. @devongundry
9. @KellySnook
10. @kangaruhe
11. @lizkauai
12. @liquess

WINNERS OF MP3 INSTANT DOWNLOAD:

13. @reyhani
14. @malariafighter
15. @glenlittle
16. @Juliet9
17. @MandyChandler
18. @SorryGnat
19. @sandynunn
20. @ezraf
21. @Mauxito
22. @AlfredoPotatoe
23. @halfbluesky
24. @gangstagangsta
25. @mrbinary
26. @bkurzius
27. @nina_eghani
28. @felishamatthew
29. @martinrosskerr
30. @thephotobin
31. @steveader
32. @MichaelHeister
33. @friendofbrave

Please make sure you have followed @hearthewritings so that we can DM you to get your contact details. Congratulations! and thanks again!

Share this tweet and get The Advent of Divine Justice for free!

Jon Rezin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:28:12 +0000

***UPDATE*** The contest has come to a close… please feel free to share the site with your friends still… and check out all the winners HERE!

So in order to spread the word about HearTheWritings.com we need your help to spread the word. We want to reward those “early adopters” who see the value in the creation of quality Baha’i Audio Books as they are the ones who will get the word out. So… we want to give those who share the following tweet an opportunity to get The Advent of Divine Justice for Free! All you have to do is log into twitter and Tweet this message (or click the link to do it automatically):

Just found a new site for Quality Bahai Audio Books. RT this to win The Advent of Divine Justice! http://su.pr/AnHfsH @hearthewritings

Because this could be a huge success we want to limit it to those who extend their effort early on… so:

The first 3 tweets will receive: 4 Audio CD Set (Physical copy.. mailed to your doorstep)

The next 10 tweets will receive: MP3 CD (Physical copy.. mailed to your doorstep)

The following 20 tweets will receive: Instant MP3 (Download… emailed within 72 hours)

We will be tracking the posts so if you tweet it we should see it… We will be posting the winners as they come in below. If you don’t see your name listed below within 48 hours of tweeting and you know you are among those who tweeted it… please leave a comment and we will check the time of your tweet posting to see if it qualifies and update accordingly. Make sure to follow @hearthewritings so we can DM the winners of the contest. Good luck and Happy Tweeting!