Penguin Random House Audio

Penguin Random House LLC

About this app

Listen to full-length audiobooks from the Penguin Random House Audio catalog, including thousands of adult, children’s, and young adult titles. Book reviewers, booksellers, librarians, and other publishing industry professionals can create an account to download audiobooks for review or promotion. Accounts are subject to verification and approval.

• Listen to audiobook samples and access review copies of new and past releases.
• Offline listening with downloaded content.
• Simple and easy to navigate audio player.
• Sleep timer and variable narration speed.
• Add favorites for easy retrieval.
• Bookmark your favorite passages.
• Easy-to-use chapter navigation.
• Share recommendations through email or messaging apps.

Ratings and reviews

As someone who works in a library, being able to catch up with the buzzy books and new releases has been incredibly useful. However, the app cuts off the top .25in of the screen making navigation difficult. I can't access the Settings at all & I have to randomly tap the top left corner to use the back button as that isn't visible on the screen either. Pausing and rewinding is also inconsistent and glitchy. Some audiobooks remain unavailable even after publication date (Switzy).

I get free access to this app as a bookseller, and for that I'm grateful, but it's not an app I'd pay for. It's very glitchy. I have to bookmark every single time I pause, because it often starts the book from the beginning. I also get signed out mid session. It would also be better if the track slider was reset for each chapter, rather than the entire book- that would make finding your place much much easier.

Ad another person said: I get free access to this app as a bookseller, and for that I'm grateful, but it is very glitchy. I have to bookmark every single time I pause, because it often starts the book from the beginning which is very frusterating if I've forgotten to bookmark and have to find my place again. I don't get signed out too often but occasionally I do have to re-log in.

What’s new

We’ve updated our app’s libraries to ensure optimal performance and compatibility.