As the world’s hottest audio-streaming subscription service, Spotify is dedicated to increasing the audiobook business, enabling extra listeners than ever to find and interact, and paving the best way for future innovation.
We noticed early adoption of podcasts and audiobooks in Germany, with labels and followers embracing each codecs. Recognizing this potential, we spoke to our customers and started innovating and constructing podcasts globally.
There’s already a robust urge for food for audiobooks throughout German-speaking markets. With hundreds of thousands of individuals having fun with audiobooks on Spotify in Germany, we’re excited to boost this expertise by offering a Premium expertise for our customers of Spotify Individual and Duo or Family Plan Managers.
Today we’re launching an enhanced audiobooks providing in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. Eligible Premium listeners in these markets may have entry to 350,000 audiobooks, together with titles in German, French, and Italian.
Eligible Premium subscribers will obtain 12 hours of audiobook listening every month, and extra 10-hour allocations will be bought as wanted from €9.99. Listeners with out an eligible Premium subscription will have the ability to pay to unlock entry to particular person audiobook titles a la carte.
Delivering a greater listening expertise
In Germany, there’s a wealthy custom of storytelling and “Hörspiele” (audio performs), which has paved the best way for the recognition of audiobooks. Today, audiobooks are a big a part of the cultural panorama, preserving and selling literature in a contemporary format.
With Audiobooks in Premium, customers will discover a host of latest advantages that may make the listening expertise even higher. Along with an expanded catalog—which incorporates titles like Cornelia Funke’s Tintenherz, Caroline Wahl’s 22 Bahnen, and Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing—listeners can:
- Search extra simply by way of our devoted Audiobooks tab.
- Explore suggestions from our Home feed.
- Access our hub to find high titles curated by our editorial specialists.
- Save their progress in an audiobook, making certain they’ll simply decide up the place they left off throughout their subsequent listening session.
- Pre-save upcoming releases from their favourite authors with Countdown Pages.
- Use our Spotify Sleep Timer so that they don’t lose their place.
“We are turning up the volume on where people are already listening, and getting even more great stories to them with this new catalog and listening experience. In the markets where we have already launched, we’ve already accelerated growth for the audiobook business, and that’s what we’re committed to doing here in Germany and across Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein,” stated David Kaefer, VP Audiobooks Business.
Find your subsequent nice learn by looking the Audiobooks hub on Spotify.
*Terms apply. 12 hours/month from our subscriber catalog accessible to Individual and Duo or Family Plan Managers solely.