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Spotify logout all devices4/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() To start, Spotify’s audiobooks hub will follow an a la carte business model, through which users purchase individual titles on a linked web page via credit card and save them to their Spotify library. “We believe that we have a potential to massively expand the audience for audiobooks.” In a live-streamed press preview, Nir Zicherman, Spotify’s v-p and global head of audiobooks, called this move the next step in the company’s broader “ambition to become the complete destination for all of people’s listening needs.” Zicherman explained that with Spotify’s entry into podcasts over the past few years, “we made a bet that people would prefer to have a single platform built on user behavior, as in listening, as opposed to content types, as in music or podcasts.” By introducing audiobooks to the lineup, “we see an opportunity to innovate in a substantially untapped market,” he said. Beginning today, Spotify listeners will be able to access a new audiobook-specific user interface to purchase audiobooks from an collection of more than 300,000 titles that features entries from major publishers (including Hachette Audio, Penguin Random House Audio, and Simon & Schuster Audio) as well as independents, in a variety of genres, and will include works by such bestselling authors as Colleen Hoover, Stephen King, and Michelle Obama. Audio streaming subscription platform Spotify, best known for its dominant music and podcast services, has officially launched its audiobook business in the U.S. ![]()
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