Audible India Launched with 2 Lakh Audiobooks, 30 Day Trial

Aural, the world's largest seller and producer of downloadable audiobooks, has finally entered India with the launch of Aural.in.

Like its global analogue, Audible.in will offer users over 2 lakh full-length audiobooks and original programs, including a curated selection of 400 Audible-exclusive titles past leading Indian authors. To mark the launch, Aural is releasing a new recording of South. Hussain Zaidi and Jane Borges'south best-selling Mafia Queens of Mumbai, performed past Rajkummar Rao, Radhika Apte and Kalki Koechlin.

Indian customers can admission Audible's library of global content and membership benefits by signing upwardly for a gratuitous 30 twenty-four hours trial, which entitles them to any Audible volume of their pick. Amazon Prime number members can access a special 90-day trial, including 3 free audiobooks, at Amazon.in/aural.in. A premium Aural membership costs Rs 199 per month following a 30 day free trial.

Members receive one credit a month, which tin exist used to redeem whatever title from the Audible.in library. Audible members too receive a xxx percent discount from non-fellow member prices on additional audiobooks purchased, every bit well every bit access to sectional sales and content. With a one-month membership trial at Audible, new listeners can enjoy whatsoever one audiobook. Audible also offers three prepaid plans with the monthly plan coming in at Rs 299, a one-half-yearly plan for Rs 1345 (25% discount) and a full yr program at Rs 2332 (35% disbelieve). Not-members can purchase audiobooks a la carte.

Amid the titles and programs available at launch are,The Concluding Male child to Fall in Love, an original sound-first championship by Durjoy Datta, exclusive sound performances of Rabindranath Tagore's greatest works, contemporary not-fiction by Rashmi Bansal and Shashi Tharoor, cocky-development titles by Radhakrishnan Pillai, Guru Om Swami and Ashwin Sanghi, nutrition and wellness titles by Rujuta Diwekar and Pooja Makhija, popular fiction by Preeti Shenoy and Savi Sarma, mythological stories by Amish, Anand Neelakantan, Devdutt Pattanaik and Vineet Bajpai as well as Ruskin Bond's autobiography, and his other works.

Of course, yous can likewise listen to classics and popular works by the likes of JK Rowling, Dan Brown, Yuval Noah Harrari, Agatha Christie Robin Sharma, Dale Carnegie and others.

Audible India launches with a "welcome pack," which has premium long and brusk-class titles and excerpts including Business organisation Sutra by Pattanaik; An Era of Darkness past Tharoor; A Scandal in Bohemia, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle; Rusty Plays Holi past Bond; Harvard Business Review manufactures, The Butterfly Consequence from Jon Ronson; Nameless Human relationship by Shenoy; and Ravana'due south Sister by Neelakantan.

"Honoring India's distinctive literary and storytelling tradition and supporting the creation of vibrant local content, Audible.in is a dedicated, authentic and dynamic destination for Indian consumers that puts Indian talent and spoken-word content front end and centre," said Aural founder and CEO Don Katz.

"I am an avid Aural listener and I'thousand honoured to be a part of such a phenomenal production as the Indian service launches," said actor Apte. "The narration procedure, and the challenge of portraying all of our emotions through our voices, was exhilarating and the creative opportunities Audible will open up up for Indian actors is truly heady. I can't await to work with the Aural team over again."

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