A-Listers Including Kate Winslet, Nicole Kidman, Hathaway As Catwoman Organizing to Record Audiobooks

Audible.com goes Hollywood, utilizing a roster from the-list stars to record a completely new kind of audiobooks attracted from famous works of literature.our editor recommendsKate Winslet Identified by Richard Branson for Yanking His Mother From FireNicole Kidman Transformed by Jennifer Aniston as Original 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' Actress: Report'Dark Dark evening Rises': Anne Hathaway's Catwoman Outfit, Bane's Orb (Photo) Kate Winslet, whose reading through through of Emile Zola's Therese Raquin was the initial audiobook inside the new series being recorded, mentioned in the experience: "You employ another part of the mind plus it keeps your creativeness flowing. It's challenging, which is a heckof a wonderful time too. Just like a listener, getting a chance to tune out and be taken into anotherworld, an atmosphere, an environment that's being created entirely to suit your needs by somebodyelse's voice could be a wonderful, magical factor." Other stars who've registered to determine great books include Nicole Kidman, who won an Oscar for playing Virginia Woolf inside the Several hours and who certainly are reading through through Woolf's For the Lighthouse Hathaway As Catwoman, who's lending her voice to L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Dustin Hoffman, who'll read Jerzy Kosinski's Being There. The initial in the new productions will probably be released early next season by Audible.com, which invented and commercialized the initial digital audio player in 1997. This year, the business mentioned, downloads by Audible individuals are up greater than 40% year-over-year, with individual people setting up typically greater than 18 books throughout the time of yearly. Other stars slated to complete inside the new series as well as the books they'll read areKim Basinger (The Awakening by Kate Chopin) Annette Bening (Mrs. Dalloway byWoolf) Jennifer Connelly (The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles) Colin Firth (The Conclusion in the Affair by Graham Greene) Samuel L. Jackson (A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes) Meg Ryan (An Individuals Comedy by William Saroyan) Susan Sarandon (The Individual within the marriage by Carson McCullers) and Naomi W (Summer season by Edith Wharton). Related Subjects Hathaway As Catwoman Dustin Hoffman Kate Winslet Nicole Kidman