At Spotify, we goal to convey nice audiobooks to as many listeners as attainable, together with these from impartial authors. Today we’re asserting a partnership with Ingram Content Group, one of many largest distributors for impartial publishers and authors throughout the globe.
This deal will convey audiobooks from over 100 Ingram-distributed publishers to Spotify, encompassing releases from Europa Editions, Milkweed Editions, G&D Media, Tuttle Publishing, Taylor & Francis, New Society Publishers, and extra. This contains Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s self-narrated assortment The Hurting Kind and bestselling writer Bob Proctor’s Born Rich. In the U.S., listeners also can dive into Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Promise, Anne Berest’s worldwide bestseller The Postcard, and Elodie Harper’s The Wolf Den, to call a number of.
“Our partnership with Ingram Content Group is part of our goal to bring more independent authors to Spotify to get their books heard through our Audiobooks in Premium offering,” mentioned Duncan Bruce, Director, Audiobook Partnerships & Licensing at Spotify. “As one of the biggest distributors for independent publishers around the world, we are excited to have Ingram to help grow the industry and create additional ways for their authors and publishers to reach new audiences.”
“Ingram Content Group is dedicated to bringing more books, in all formats, to more readers,” mentioned Agustina Casal, Ingram Content Group’s Director of Digital Sales and Marketing. “We’re proud to continue to work with Spotify to bring audiobooks of so many independent publishers to the world.”
Since launching our Audiobooks in Premium providing final yr, we’re seeing extra listeners strive new and completely different books, with tons of of 1000’s of distinctive titles streamed. We’re not solely seeing success with bestsellers, however again catalog titles are additionally gaining recognition. Of the highest 10 audiobooks on Spotify, 9 are backlist titles, and 6 of these had been launched over 5 years in the past.
Head to Spotify to seek out your subsequent nice hear.