16th November, 2024
18th October, 2021Audible, an Amazon company and a leading global provider of spoken-word entertainment, announced two major updates to its service in India today, both of which are available for Android and iOS users alike.
A new all-you-can-listen Plus catalogue offering Audible members unlimited listening at no additional cost. It features a selection of over 15,000 titles in Hindi and English, including Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts, all included with an Audible membership at no extra cost. New-to-Audible customers can access this entire catalogue with a free trial as well.
A new free experience for everyone that includes over 150 exclusive podcasts and Audible Originals, in addition to over 40,000 popular podcasts. New Audible Originals released on the free tier include several new shows featuring celebrities including Sanya Malhotra, Varun Sharma, Kubbra Sait, Sayani Gupta, Shabir Ahluwalia, Sriti Jha, Nakuul Mehta and Rithvik Dhanjani. It is also the new home for titles offered on the Audible Suno app previously.
About the all-you-can-listen Plus catalogue for Audible members
Audible membership just got a lot sweeter with the launch of Audible’s new all-you-can-listen Plus catalogue which gives members unlimited access to over 15,000 titles, Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts as part of their membership, at no extra cost. The all-you-can-listen Plus catalogue is in addition to one monthly credit available to members, which gives them access to a new audiobook every month, regardless of duration or price, that they can select from over 200,000 Indian and international titles.
The all-you-can-listen Plus catalogue features an impressive line-up of Indian audiobooks like Dharmayoddha Kalki by Kevin Missal, The Karadi Tales, The Panchatantra and Autobiography of a Yogi (Hindi Edition) by Paramahansa Yogananda, Audible Originals including Zen: A Way of Living written and voiced by Om Swami, The Last Girl to Fall in Love (English) written by Durjoy Datta; voiced by Prateik Babbar and Rasika Dugal and the highly anticipated season 2 of TVF’s Permanent Roommates: He Said She Said, voiced by Sumeet Vyas and Nidhi Singh, besides several popular podcasts.
There are also several popular global audiobooks in the Plus catalogue including The Prophet by Khalil Gibran (voiced by Riz Ahmed), laugh out loud fan-favorite My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse, A Short History of Nearly Everything written by Bill Bryson, the ever popular Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection written by Arthur Conan Doyle and narrated by Stephen Fry, epic classics like Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Tales of Terror by Edgar Allan Poe and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Also available in the catalogue are popular international Audible Originals like Deepak Chopra’s Mind Body Zone, Queer Icons by Tan France, Coupledom with Idris and Sabrina Elba, The Coldest Case by James Patterson (voiced by Aaron Paul) and Michael Caine’s Gangs.
About the free experience for all listeners
Members and non-members can now listen to a comprehensive selection of over 150 exclusive podcasts and Audible Originals in addition to over 40,000 popular podcasts such asOn Purpose with Jay Shetty, Sadhguru and Ted Talks Daily. The Audible Originals catalogue features titles with popular actors and authors including Secrets of Good Health by Rujuta Diwekar, Buri Nazar featuring Sayani Gupta, Rithvik Dhanjani, and Supriya Pathak Kapur, Sasural Wonder Phool featuring Sanya Malhotra and Varun Sharma and many more.
The free experience also houses titles offered on the Audible Suno app previously featuring India’s most beloved voices such as Amitabh Bachchan (Kaali Awaazein), Anurag Kashyap, Tabu, Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Thriller Factory), Vir Das (Be Stupid with Vir Das) and many more. Over 20 new titles featuring some of India’s most popular faces (and voices) have also released on the new free offering today. Some of these are:
Sanya Malhotra, who is one of the voices in ‘Sasural Wonder Phool’ said, “In ‘Sasural Wonder Phool’, my character Ashima gets married to a sex therapist (the inimitable Varun Sharma) who runs a sex clinic with his entire family. Need I say more? The show is bizarre, hilarious, incredibly entertaining and so different from anything I have ever done before – I just know my fans are going to love it! This has been my first brush with audio and I am hooked – I can’t wait to do more.”
Ekta Kapoor said, “Conceptualizing entertainment content in audio has been an experience of a lifetime and has helped me push the creative envelope further than ever before. My new show ‘Darmiyaan’ (and first audio show!) has everything Balaji fans love – love, unbelievable scandals, shocking twists and much, much more. I’m sure listeners are going to love it, and become audiophiles for life.”
Durjoy Datta said, "I have had an amazing journey with Audible over the last three years. My audiobook, ‘The Last Boy To Fall In Love' came out when Audible launched back in 2018 and with the 'The Last Girl To Fall In Love' releasing in Hindi and English this year, it feels like life came full circle. Writing for the audio medium has been an incredible experience and it's surreal to see how characters are brought to life solely through voices and sound. I have been in complete awe of the detailed expertise and standard of audio production and technology that Audible brings to the table. Prateik Babbar, Rasika Dugal, Anupriya Goenka and Akshay Oberoi have narrated the books and have brought my vision to life so beautifully."
