Audiobooks.com Debuts "The Hunger Games" Trilogy

TORONTO, March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Audiobooks.com, the world's first unlimited, cloud-based, streaming service for audio books, today announced that Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy will be available on Audiobooks.com beginning March 21st – just in time for the premiere of the widely anticipated initial "Hunger Games" movie, which opens this week. The books are wildly popular, particularly among teens and young adults, with more than 24 million copies of the three-book series in print in the US. Audiobooks.com now provides unlimited access to the entire trilogy – which includes The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay – for just $24.95 per month, a price that also includes access to all of the thousands of popular titles in the Audiobooks.com library.

"The Hunger Games trilogy has taken the publishing world by storm," said Sanjay Singhal, Chief Executive Officer of Audiobooks.com. "It's a highly addictive series, and Audiobooks.com members can access all three books and stream them from anywhere using a mobile device, laptop or desktop. A single hardback edition of a book can cost more than a full month of unlimited access to the entire trilogy plus thousands of other bestselling titles."

Audiobooks.com is unique in the audio books industry since it provides cloud-based streaming of unlimited content via Android or Apple mobile devices. Audiobooks.com offers a bookmarking function that allows users to resume listening at the same spot from any Android or Apple device, laptop or home computer without a browser plug-in or special application. With Audiobooks.com, there are no time constraints on use, and users are not required to return audio books. Users aren't locked into a long-term contract with Audiobooks.com and can cancel their subscription at any time.

With dramatic narration that captures the bestselling books' intensity, Audiobooks.com listeners can follow the adventures of the protagonists in the dystopian future society depicted in The Hunger Games novels. "The Hunger Games" film that premieres this week, the first in a four-part series, is projected to generate opening weekend sales of approximately $90 million. Movie-goers who want to find out what happens next can relive the action-packed storyline of the first novel and enjoy all three books in audio form at Audiobooks.com. To learn more, please visit www.audiobooks.com.

About Audiobooks.com
Audiobooks.com provides the first unlimited, cloud-based, streaming service for audio books, delivering access on any Internet-enabled smartphone or PC, including Apple iPhones and iPads and Android smartphones or tablet devices. The company is the first and only provider of cloudmark sync, its proprietary technology that synchronizes users' last listened-to bookmark position across all devices without requiring a special browser plug-in or dedicated application. Find out more at www.audiobooks.com.

SOURCE Audiobooks.com