Audible’s Read & Listen experience comes to more listeners around the globe

When in the middle of a great story, listeners want to keep it going from the couch to the car to their headphones at the gym. That kind of flexibility is one of the benefits of Audible, and now more customers globally can experience our Read & Listen suite, including seamless syncing between eBook and audio, access to audiobook discounts on eligible Kindle eBooks they already own, as well as Audible’s immersion reading and Page Sync features.

Immersion reading expanding to seven new marketplaces

Audible’s immersion reading experience, already live in the U.S., UK, Germany, and Australia, is now rolling out to customers in Canada, India, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Brazil. With this expansion, all customers in these countries will be able to follow along with highlighted text as they listen, access a built-in dictionary for English and Spanish titles (more languages coming soon), and enjoy more control over their immersion reading experience with natural page navigation and the ability to hide controls for distraction-free reading.

They can also automatically resume their audiobook right where they left off in the Kindle eBook — and vice versa — across devices. So listeners can start reading a Kindle eBook on a tablet, switch to listening on an Echo while cooking in the kitchen, and pick up again on a phone when heading out for a run without losing their place.

Page Sync expanding to three new marketplaces

Page Sync makes it easy for customers to switch between a physical book and their audiobook without losing their place. To use it, customers open their audiobook in the Audible app and select “Page Sync” from the menu, then point the phone’s camera at any page of a physical book or eBook. The audiobook automatically jumps to the matching position, so they can move between reading and listening in a snap. Previously available only in the U.S., Page Sync is now expanding to the UK, Germany, and Australia.

All of these Read & Listen experiences are available for more than 800,000 English and German-language titles, with more languages coming in 2027. Customers can get started on titles in their Audible library that have a Read & Listen badge. Tapping the title opens the player, where they can toggle from “Listen” to “Read & Listen” to start a session. Customers will also receive discounts on the audiobook version of eligible Kindle eBooks they already own, making it easier than ever to enjoy stories across formats.

Bringing visual content to life in the player

Listeners can now also view images right in the player as they listen. When a narrator references a chart, graph, or illustration, it automatically appears, replacing the cover art. There’s no need to pause and search through a PDF; the visuals are part of the experience.

The feature launches this month with approximately 300 titles, including audiobooks with visual content in categories like health and wellness, parenting, classics, and children’s picture books whose illustrations now come alive alongside the narration. Listeners can tap any image to expand it for a closer look and browse all of a title’s visuals chapter by chapter from the player menu. Tapping any image picks up the narration right from that moment.

The experience is available across iOS, Android, iPad, and Fire tablets for our services worldwide, with plans to expand to thousands of additional titles through 2027.