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2nd December 2008

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Audible launches indie imprint

13.08.08

Amazon subsidiary Audible is launching a new imprint in the US with the Centre for Independent Publishing to publish work from independent publishers.

Audible IndieFirst will release titles in audiobook version one month ahead of their print release via Audible.com and iTunes, with the aim to "introduce innovative writers on the verge of popular renown to the large world of book lovers and audiobook listeners".

Beth Anderson, executive vice president and publisher at Audible, said: "We want to bring the tremendous quality of independently published titles, which generally aren't produced in audio, to the hundreds of thousands of people who experience literature through listening." The programme would also "introduce book lovers to new and emerging writers".

The inaugural IndieFirst selection is Joe Meno's Demons in the Spring, which will be published in print by New York-based Akashic Books in September.

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