Audible Launches Over 100 Free Audiobook Titles on Alexa

Audible has introduced the launch of greater than 100 audiobooks at no cost through Alexa, together with English titles comparable to “A Selection of the Cases of Sherlock Holmes”, “A Tale of Two Cities”, “The Complete Chanakya Neeti”, “The Mystic Sinners”, and “On The Double”. Hindi audiobooks comparable to “21 Shreshth Kahaniyan Prem Chand”, and “Shiv Puran” may even be accessible through Alexa, in accordance with the corporate. Users will be capable of ask Alexa to learn one of many free audiobooks from Audible to be able to entry these titles.

The Amazon-owned audiobook service has announced that readers will be capable of entry these titles at no cost, as a part of what the corporate says are efforts to make the expertise extra accessible. This signifies that customers with out an Audible subscription will be capable of entry these free titles, and they are often accessed through gadgets which function the corporate’s Alexa voice assistant together with Amazon Echo and Fire TV. Readers may recall that Audible Plus was introduced in October, providing over 15,000 titles to Audible members at no further value.

According to Audible, customers will be capable of entry over 100 audiobooks together with the beforehand talked about English and Hindi titles like “A Tale of Two Cities” (Charles Dickens), “A Selection of the Cases of Sherlock Holmes” (Arthur Conan Doyle), “The Complete Chanakya Neeti” (R.P. Jain), “The Mystic Sinners” (Proyashi Barua), and “On The Double” (Tanushree Podder), “21 Shreshth Kahaniyan Prem Chand” (Munshi Premchand), and “Shiv Puran” (Dr. Vinay Neeraj) as a part of the free catalogue.

In order to entry these free audiobooks launched by Audible, customers must ask Alexa, “What is free on Audible?” in English or in Hindi, which can supply them over 100 free titles to select from. They can then name out the ebook’s title and Alexa will start studying it aloud. However, customers who wish to proceed studying books that aren’t a part of the free catalogue will nonetheless want an Audible subscription, which is at present priced at a month-to-month charge of Rs. 199. Amazon says that customers will be capable of simply change between gadgets, persevering with playback on one machine after pausing it on one other, utilizing Alexa voice instructions.