DATE: 1st Oct 2022
LADBROKE AUDIO PARTNERS WITH STORYTEL TO PRODUCE NEW TITLES FOR UK LAUNCH
In exciting news, we are proud to be partnering with our friends at Storytel as they bring their services to the UK market. Storytel AB is a Stockholm-based e-book and audiobook subscription service. It compares with Audible, using a monthly credit model, and is available in more than 25 countries. Its English audiobook service Audiobooks.com is available in more than 150 countries.
Ladbroke Audio will initially produce 9 titles in October/November, ranging from WWII romance, through science fiction and horror, to interpersonal stories.
“This is a fantastic opportunity for us to work with a publisher who believes whole-heartedly in audiobooks,” says Ladbroke Audio MD, Neil Gardner. “We’ve distributed our own titles through Storytel for many years now, and to now be partnering with them as they enter the UK market is truly exciting.”
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About Ladbroke Audio Ltd
Ladbroke Audio was formed in 2011 and is one of the UK’s leading and best known audiobook production houses. Based in Croydon with its own studios, the company produces between 150-200 titles every year for the likes of PRH, Audible, BBC Audio, Harper Audio, Little Brown, Bonnier Books, Orion and SPCK/IVP. The company works with a wide variety of narrators, from A-list celebrities to first-timers and author narrators. It also has its own independent audiobook publishing division, Spokenworld Audio. The company is the production partner with BBC Audio for the ongoing Doctor Who audiobook range.
www.ladbrokeaudio.com
www.spokenworldaudio.com
About Storytel
Storytel is one of the world’s largest audiobook and e-book streaming services and offers more than one million titles on a global scale. Their vision is to make the world a more empathetic and creative place, with great stories to be shared and enjoyed by anyone, anywhere and anytime. The streaming business within the Storytel Group is conducted under the brands Storytel, Mofibo and Audiobooks.com. The publishing business is managed by Storytel Books, and by the audiobook publisher StorySide. The Storytel Group operates in over 25 markets. The headquarters is located in Stockholm, Sweden.
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