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"All you can read", or rather, all that you can read. This is the formula by which Audible chose to land in Italy. To many the name we will not say anything, but we are talking about one of the most important services in the world dedicated to audio books, so as to enter the viewfinder (and later in the equity) of Amazon since 2008. The story begins back in Audible 1995, the year in which Donald Katz, passionate dell'accoppiata audiobooks-jogging, studying a way simpler and lighter than the cassette player to listen to their books while exercising. Two years after arriving on the market the first portable digital music player, a milestone that has earned a place at the Smithsonian in Washington.

From then on there was the landing in Europe (Germany and UK and later France), Australia and Japan. Since yesterday Audible is officially in Italy with a catalog that has about twelve thousand books, of which two thousand in Italian. As we said the formula chosen for the landing of Amazon.it is a monthly subscription with unlimited access to the entire catalog, at a cost of € 9.99 per month. The main media content use will be smartphones and tablets, thanks to the app for iOS and Android.

Audible is not a simple container of audiobooks, but it is also a real production studio with the label Audible Studios. The strength of his catalog is in fact the presence of many beds titles not only by actors and professional voice actors, but also from the foreground actors, whose voices are well known to the public. Kate Winslet and Tim Robbins are an example of the actors who gave voice to the content in English, while Italy are the 'voices' of foreign actors (as Pino teach and Francesco Pannofino) as well as actors and directors such as Nanni Moretti and Sergio Rubini, as the catalog also includes content from other publishers, like Emons.

In Italy's Claudio Bisio's ambassador Audible and yesterday the Italian actor and comedian has recounted his experience during the press conference alongside Marco Azzani, country manager Italy Audible. Bisio gave a taste of his live reading of the book "The feather" by Giorgio Faletti, moral fable "" posthumously published and produced by Audible Studios. Among the titles available in May, published by Audible Studios or other independent publishers are The Girl in the Train Paula Hawkins, The Tales of Nené by Andrea Camilleri, the balance rule Carofiglio, the first three chapters of the tetralogy Elena Ferrante , The diary of a Wimpy Kid. Also interesting are the books read by the author himself, as in cases of Gianrico Carofiglio, or authors who read other authors, as in the case of Novecento by Alessandro Baricco narrated by Stefano Benni.