Technology & IT | Monday 23 April, 2018 11:46 am |

 In a prominent cultural event, Dubai witnessed the official launch of “Kitab Sawti”, the world’s largest platform for Arabic and translated international audiobooks! The event follows two years of comprehensive work and collaboration with leading publishing houses, authors and studios across the Middle East to produce almost a thousand best-selling titles for Arabic literature giants such as: Abbas Mahmoud Akkad, Ibrahim Nasrallah and Dr. Ahmed Khaled Tawfik as well as international A-listers such as Dan Brown, Suzanne Collins and many others.

 

Through a user-friendly smart-phone app now available for IOS/Android devices, “Kitab Sawti” grants 400 million Arabic speakers all over the world access to bestselling and award-winning titles in an audio format. When tuned in, users are able to travel to a parallel universe; in a moment of entertainment, acquiring knowledge at only one finger-press away.

 

Originated in the heart of Sweden, Kitab Sawti is an international company with a global mindset and a team with +8 nationalities working from all over the world. In less than a year, the company succeeded in providing +100 job-opportunities in the Middle East including challenging markets such as Palestine and Syria, and ones with low employment rates such as Egypt. The company initially started out as a project to support Syrian refugees in Sweden with the aim of integrating them in the Swedish society while retaining their Arabic identity and culture. Later the idea expanded with the support of investors who believe in the value of educational entertainment and the audio production of Arabic literature. The up and rising company was able to raise money from top swedish Investment firms and successful entrepreneurs such as Abdullah Elyas, founder of Careem and Dr. Annas Abedin of Rocket Internet.

 

The development of the app maintained a user-driven approach with the release of a beta version in July 2016 for testing and research purposes aimed to enhance a better understanding of users’ needs. Traction reaching up to +300k users tuning in regularly and consistently on daily and weekly basis constituted the transformation of constructive feedback into a reality.

 

With the test-phase coming to an end, the company has now released “Kitab Sawti Gold” that provides users with a selection of packages to choose from based on their usage and needs.

While all packages grant users unlimited access to exclusive content along with special features such as offline-mode, the prices vary based on the period of access selected; weekly, monthly or annually.

 

 

 

 

 

Although the company continues to offer a range of free audiobooks, Kitab Sawti is a legal service committed to supporting authors and publishers who create extraordinary content that users can enjoy. This requires providing additional sustainable revenue streams to content creators who enrich Arabic literature, and therefore Gold Content is charged for.

 

 

“During our two years on the ground we have met so many inspiring people in the Middle East who really want to make a change and empower culture and literature in Arabic. We are on the move and we believe the Arabic audiobooks market has a huge potential,” says Sebastian Bond, CEO and co-founder of Kitab Sawti.

 

And on that note, Hamzeh Al Fuqha, Middle East and North Africa CEO adds “We believe in the power of stories that change lives, words that inspire, and literature that builds bridges between cultures and generations. By unleashing this power in a new format to a growing audience, the potential of every book in our library is completely transformed”

 

When a good story is matched up with the right narrator, the outcome is usually an exquisite experience. Kitab Sawti is for perfectionists - those who appreciate quality and detail, for dreamers who desire the right balance between fantasy and reality, for the knowledge-hungry and for those simply trying to find their way. Kitab Sawti cuts the distance short, granting people the absolute authority to shift between their world and and that of the book’s in a matter of seconds, to experience the true meaning of educational entertainment. 

 

 

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The App can be downloaded through the following link: http://onelink.to/kitabsawti

 

For more information, visit the website:  http://kitabsawti.com or contact via  hello@kitabsawti.com

 

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Sebastian Bond, CEO and Founder:

Email: sebastian@kitabsawti.com

Phone Number: +46 708 19 25 39