Penguin Random House and its significant venture on the publishing industry: 17 million euros invested in audiobooks

Ten years ago, the publishing group launched Penguin Random House Audio, a project that now has more than 6,000 titles in the catalog and four and a half million copies sold.

The room is dark and, as it is small, the depth of the voice emerging from the recording booth bounces and echoes off the padded walls: “A French song is playing on the gramophone...”. Víctor Clavijo's voice immerses us in a passage from “La isla de la mujer desnuda,” the new novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, which will be on sale in bookstores on October 8 in book format... and in audio.

The Penguin Random House publishing group has been working the audiobook format for 10 years: a digital native project that already totals more than 6,000 published fiction and non-fiction titles.

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