Spotify is the new place to listen to audiobooks. But only in the United States

The Spotify platform has officially launched a new option on its platform to allow its subscribers to listen to the famous audio booksor, in free translation, audio books.

For the Spotifythe novelty is “the next frontier for us as a company”.

The streaming platform based in Stockholm explained what their last spoken word expansion will look like, two weeks later Paolo Vogel, CFO (Chief Financial Officer) of Spotify saying that audiobooks would come “very early” on the platform.

It all started in January last year, when the Spotify tested its unprecedented audiobook format with nine public domain classics, including Hilary Swank. In the same year, the company invested 140 million euros (from BRL 718 million at current exchange rates) to acquire the audiobook platform Find a way.

Now the Spotify equipped its entertainment library with more than 300 thousand audio books and the executives pointed it out “will continue to build and innovate”.

As a start of this project, subscribe Spotify from the USA they will be able to listen to audiobooks directly on the platform, but when you try to access a title in the mobile app, the service brings the following message: “Go to Spotify.com to purchase this title and listen to it here. We will email you the details to make it easier.”

price of the book

According to information from Digital music newsan audio edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stonefor example, it will cost the subscriber Spotify the value of 32.90 USD (from BRL 169 at current exchange rates) plus taxes. This value appears to be the standard cost for audiobooks like the ones in this title.

or Spotify intends to add new audiobook features in the future, as well as bring media to international users and innovate “in format for the benefit of listeners, authors and publishers”.

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Source: Terra

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