NEWARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Audible Inc., the world’s largest seller and producer of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment, today announced the release of The Butterfly Effect, a fascinating original audio series that investigates the remarkable consequences of a single idea, hosted by Jon Ronson, best-selling writer, acclaimed documentarian, and screenwriter. The seven-episode series is available for FREE until October 12th on audible.com/butterfly.
The Butterfly Effect unravels the surprising and complicated effects technology has had on the pornography industry. Its story begins with a Belgian teenager living in Brussels in the 1990s, who decided to use his tech know-how to create free access to pornography for consumers. In the process, Thylmann amassed incredible wealth, and countless lives on both sides of the screen would never be the same. A provocative journey behind the scenes of a wildly disruptive cultural shift, The Butterfly Effect explores how technology is turning the lives of myriad people upside-down.
Known for exploring the fringes of society, Jon Ronson is a bestselling writer, noted documentarian, and screenwriter – including the award-winning Frank and critically acclaimed Okja. He is the author of international hits So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and The Psychopath Test, amongst others. A TED Talks favorite, Ronson is also a regular contributor to public radio’s This American Life, The New York Times Magazine, and GQ magazine.
“The Butterfly Effect is sort of about porn, but it’s about a lot of other things,” said Ronson. “It’s sad, funny, moving and totally unlike some other nonfiction stories about porn - because it isn’t judgmental or salacious. It’s human and sweet and strange and lovely. It’s a mystery story, an adventure following a single butterfly effect. The flap of the butterfly’s wings is a boy in Brussels having an idea. Over seven episodes I trace the consequences of this idea. If you keep going in this way, where might you end up? It turns out you end up in the most surprising and unexpected places.”
“The authenticity with which Jon Ronson tells stories is prominent in The Butterfly Effect,” said Audible Chief Content Officer Andy Gaies. “In this piece for Audible, Ronson takes us on a journey of unexpected connections, uncovering moving and unexpected human stories.”
Audible invented and commercialized the first digital audio player in 1997, and has since been at the forefront of the explosively growing audiobook download segment. In 2016, Audible members downloaded an average of 17 books over the course of the year. More than half of new Audible members are first-time audiobook buyers.
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Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment, offering customers a new way to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible was created to unleash the emotive music in language and the habituating power and utility of verbal expression. Audible content includes more than 350,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business information providers. Audible is also the provider of spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes Store.
