‘Harry Potter’ Books to Be Recorded as Full-Cast Audio Productions, More Than 100 Actors, Will Release Exclusively on Audible
Amazon’s Audible and Pottermore Publishing, the global digital publisher of Rowling’s Wizarding World, will co-produce a brand-new audiobook series for the original seven Harry Potter stories. The new audiobooks are scheduled to premiere in late 2025, with each of the seven English-language titles to be released sequentially for a global audience, exclusively on Audible.
The companies said the full-cast audio productions — with more than 100 actors — will “bring these iconic stories to life as never heard before.” The new audiobooks will provide “immersive audio entertainment through high-quality sound design in Dolby Atmos, stunning scoring, a full range of character voices and real-world sound capture,” Audible and Pottermore Publishing said.
The original single-voice English-language Harry Potter audiobooks, featuring Stephen Fry and Jim Dale, will continue to be available. Those were first published in 1999. Since they launched on Audible in 2015, the audiobooks have reached 1.4 billion global listening hours in total.
Further details about the new Harry Potter audiobooks — including content and production, global release dates, voice casting, and how to access the audiobooks — will be released later. The project is unrelated to the eight Warner Bros. movies chronicling the saga of the boy wizard.
Watch the video announcement of the new Harry Potter audiobooks: