More than half (52 percent) of Spotify’s international audiobook audience is now reported to be between between 18 and 34.
Spotify Expands ‘Follow Along’ for Audiobooks
The Spotify ‘Follow Along’ feature for audiobooks may remind former ‘Kindle in Motion’ fans of enhanced ebooks.
Spotify’s ‘Audiobooks Plus,’ Tested in World Markets, Arrives in the States
Spotify takes its premium subscribers the option to buy 15 hours of extra audiobook listening time as a monthly add-on.
Audible Opens AI-Narration to Selected Publishers
Selected publishers are working with an early release of Audible’s AI-voiced audiobook production, with translation and accents to follow.
BISG Annual Meeting: Move Fast and Fix Things
The BISG Annual Meeting, themed “Move Fast and Fix Things,” highlighted the many ways the organization is making steps to improve things in the global publishing industry.
Spotify Opens French and Dutch Audiobook Production
Touting an investment of €1 million, Spotify builds on its French and Benelux audiobook operations to open a new production initiative.
Spotify Adds the UK’s Crooked Lane, Plus Podium Audiobooks
Reaching what the company says is its first full year of profitability, Spotify celebrates a fourth quarter list of 350,000+ audiobooks.
Bloomsbury Opens an Audiobook Distribution Agreement With Spotify
Bloomsbury titles are to go to the Spotify ‘Audiobooks in Premium’ offering, and to a-la-carte availability for those without subscriptions.
Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024: Frankfurt Audio and The Arts+
The 2024 Frankfurter Buchmesse includes a much-enlarged Frankfurt Audio area in Hall 3.1 and a return of The Arts+ Stage to Hall 4.1.
Bonnier Books UK Joins Spotify’s Audiobooks Offer
Spotify’s Duncan Bruce says that 14 of the Top 50 ‘Audiobooks in Premium’ titles were released before 2020, as Bonnier Books UK signs up.