Storytel- the audiobook app service launches Kids Mode for Indian market
Bedtimes stories are no more a struggle for parents.
Mumbai, 11th December, 2018: Storytel, world’s first audiobook app streaming service has announced a Kids Mode in their app service.
As a strong entrant into the audiobooks space, with a premium content library spanning 5 languages- across 16 categories, Storytel is upping its ante by now having a parental control on their application. The app hosts 70,000+ audiobooks and ebooks across a varied category such as romance, thriller, spirituality, horror, drama, adventure, etc.
The book titles on storytel are meant for all age groups. However, with the child filter, children get access to only that content which is specifically meant for their age group.
Kids Mode, is a filter which allows parents to let their children go exploring in the app, and find their own favorites. The app hosts thousands of stories and bestsellers in the children categories, which is rich with some great books in fantasy, adventures, comics, classics across languages such as Hindi, English and Marathi.
Be it J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Roald Dahl’s books, Adventures of Stoob to Peppa Pig, the app has books for all age groups - starting from stories for infants.
Moreover, besides the acquired collection, Storytel also has original series e.g Chhoti Durga, Phas Gayi Kinoo etc which are written specifically for children.
With this move, Storytel has opened up the word of stories for children. Parents now have an educative and a novel medium where children can listen to books from their prefered genre such as- comics, biographies, fiction, non-fiction, drama etc.
“We are thrilled to have an exclusive child filter for our application, as it essentially allows us to do more for kids. Storytel has curated a fantastic list of books for children which are both fun and educative. With the kids mode now live, we aim at looking at larger subscription numbers to come in.” says Yogesh Dashrath, Country Manager at Storytel India.
Storytel hosts a wide variety of audiobooks both original and acquire books. The app currently houses 70,000+ titles across five languages.Storytel India also provides a platform to established, as well as young writers to create original series in Indian languages that take listeners into a new and exciting world of stories.
Pricing: The first 14 days is free for subscribers, and post which there is a subscription fee of INR 299. Under a monthly subscription, the subscriber can listen to unlimited books both, offline and online.
Availability: Storytel is available on both Google Play store http://bit.ly/2rriZaU and iOS App store https://apple.co/2zUcGkG.
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About Storytel
Storytel launched its service in 2005 and to date has had more than 27 million listeners of its audiobooks. Storytel works with all types of smartphones and has an offline function that allows you to listen to audiobooks even when there is no Internet connection available. Storytel's subscriber base grew more than 100% annually from 2010 to 2014 and continues to grow year after year. In August 2017, Storytel reached the top of the 500,000 subscribers. The company is headquartered in Stockholm and operates in 14 countries: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Finland, Russia, Spain, Poland, Iceland, Bulgaria and now India.
The app works with all types of smartphones and has an offline function that allows you to listen to audiobooks even when there is no Internet connection available. Storytel's subscriber base grew more than 100% annually from 2010 to 2014 and continues to grow year after year.
Link to the website: https://www.storytel.in
