Spotify Adds Audiobook Feature in U.S.

Spotify subscribers volition beryllium capable to find 1 caller diagnostic successful their app today: audiobooks. The institution launches its audiobooks diagnostic contiguous successful the U.S. with a room of 300,000 books from large publishing houses, indie publishers, and amateur audiobook authors. Audiobook listeners volition beryllium capable to illustration books earlier buying them à la carte astatine publisher-set prices, and erstwhile a rubric is decided upon, the acquisition volition beryllium completed off-app.

The caput of audiobooks astatine Spotify, Nir Zicherman, says this method of purchasing is conscionable the beginning, stating “While we person ambitions to present caller audiobook concern models successful the future, successful speaking with partners crossed the industry, we felt that à la carte was the champion mode to statesman activating audiobooks.”

A captious constituent of the imaginable aboriginal concern exemplary is the audiobook institution Findaway, which Spotify bought earlier this year. Through Findaway, amateur audiobook authors tin nutrient audiobooks and marque wealth from them. With the caller Spotify audiobooks launch, amateur audiobook authors tin upload their enactment to the app arsenic they tin with different audiobook platforms. In the future, though, Spotify whitethorn tally ads wrong these self-published audiobooks, arsenic amateur creators whitethorn beryllium much consenting to judge sponsors compared to large publishers. This could effect successful escaped audiobooks for readers.

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