Audible arrives in Spain with more than 10,000 original audiobooks and podcasts

The Amazon company offers a premium audio experience for anyone who wants to be entertained, learn or inspired, whether listening to a thriller, a great story or an insightful non-fiction book.

Audible, company Amazon and the world's largest distributor of quality digital audio entertainment content, has launched a new service dedicated exclusively to the Spanish audiencea.

It will offer a catalog with more than 90,000 audiobooks and podcasts originals for a subscription of only 9.99 euros per month, as well as other 10,000 additional titles with a special price for subscribers of up to 9.99 euros each. Additionally, the service offers a 30-day free trial period for new users and the ability to cancel at any time.

The Audible catalog offers a wide variety of content in terms of genres and formats, produced, written and starring in collaboration with some of the most prominent creators in Spain.

At launch, Audible offers the possibility of listening to a catalog of more than 90,000 titles unlimitedly, including more than 6,700 high-quality original audiobooks and podcasts, both in Spanish and neutral Spanish, many of them Audible Originals created specifically for the Spanish consumer. The service also offers titles in Catalan, Basque and Galician, and new ones will be added constantly. Likewise, Audible subscribers will have unlimited access to thousands of titles from its global catalog, with great audio content in English, German, French, Italian and Portuguese, among other languages.

Among Audible's exclusive titles are the complete saga of Harry Potter narrated by Leonor Watling; Sherlock Holmes, with the voice of Jose Coronado; Alice in Wonderland, con Michelle Jenner; The heart of darkness, with Juan Echanove; Moby Dick, with Josep Maria Pou; 'Emma, ​​with Maribel Verdú; Stan Lee's alliances: A game of light, with Adriana Ugarte, and Ballad of songbirds and snakes, prequel to the hunger games, narrated by Miguel Bernardeau.

Audible.es also offers its users unlimited access to its large catalog of original podcasts, including Gene DRO, the talk show with Alaska; Mario Vaquerizo's first podcast, The Story with Mario; the premiere of the audio series of Dream a Dream, with Najwa Nimri and Maggie Civantos; Do you speak fear?, by Mona León; the audio spin-off of the comedy The one that is coming; the documentary series The challenge, about the history of ETA, narrated by Ramón Langa; Elsa Punset's personal growth podcast, Small revolutions to grow; Emilio Aragón's children's production El desván de Miliki; sports podcasts Mendes' cell phone, narrated by Olga Viza, and BRAND Editorial, on a weekly basis; ViacomCBS Networks International children's titles, with Paw Patrol o SpongeBob exclusively in audio; the science and technology podcast Crime, produced by Animal Maker; the informative podcast who says what, by Ana Pastor and Newtral; political analysis with Control session, by Rubén Amón, and interviews in Conversations with David Jimenez, as well as more than 800 hours to learn English with the complete Vaughan system.

The commitment to exclusive content is reinforced with the agreement between Audible and Planeta to co-produce hundreds of audiobooks. In addition, Audible's Spanish audience will enjoy exclusive content and special agreements derived from collaboration with leading companies and institutions in Spain, such as Guía Repsol, ISDI, Club Vanguardia, Carné Internacional de Estudiante ISIC, Air Europa, Immfly, Iberia, IE University and Panasonic.

Apart from its unlimited catalog, the service also offers its Spanish customers the possibility of purchasing and downloading more than 10.000 best-sellers with a special price for subscribers of up to 9.99 euros per title. For more details about these titles, you can visit Audible.ES. Audible is also available on Alexa.

Don Katz, founder of Audible, comments that "I was in Spain for the first time when I was a young journalist and was immediately struck by its extraordinary culture and diversity. It is exciting to be able to announce our dedicated service for Spain, with a catalog of audio content full of creative productions made by incredible local talent. I am proud of our collaboration with the Spanish creative community to offer an enriching experience that millions of people around the world have made part of their daily lives, whether listening to an audiobook or an original podcast."

"Listening is a way of life and we are delighted to present Audible to the Spanish people today. Audible has brought millions of people around the world the transformative experience of listening to stories interpreted in a spectacular way. And it has also helped create a new category of entertainment, as well as a form of expression for artists and creators," said Nils Rauterberg, Managing Director of Audible in Europe.

Juan Baixaras, Country Manager of Audible Spain, highlights that "Spain is an audio country: our culture and history have always been linked to audio. That is why we make a resounding commitment to the audio entertainment category, which is the one that has been growing the most in recent years in the entire publishing industry."

"In addition to the most complete catalog of audiobooks, in collaboration with the main Spanish publishers, we launched a very complete podcast offering, where we innovate in formats and themes. Today we release hundreds of original and exclusive titles that cover all types of genres and interests. And, from now on, we will not stop working with the best Spanish voices and creators, to continue growing our Audible.ES catalog, listening to what our customers want to continue improving our content and their audio experience," he adds.