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Amazon plans to bring audio books service to India

It is talking to biggest book publishers like Penguin Random House, Harper Collins and Juggernaut

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a conference. Audible would be Amazon’s next big gambit in India after Prime Video. Photo: Reuters

Suveen Sinha New Delhi
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, wants to bring Audible, its audio books streaming service, to India. For that it has been talking to the biggest book publishers in the country, such as Penguin Random House and HarperCollins, as well as the Chiki Sarkar-led start-up, Juggernaut.
 
Executives in charge of Amazon’s global operations were recently in India to talk to book publishers, said two persons in the books industry. A spokesperson for Amazon India declined to comment.
 
The two persons who confirmed talks with Amazon’s global executives also said that the pricing of audio books was proving to

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