Spotify's Premium Audiobook Feature Launches In The Us

After trialing nan service successful Ireland and Canada past month, Spotify has officially launched its Audiobooks+ work successful nan US, Europe, Australia and elsewhere. An add-on disposable to Spotify Premium members, arsenic good arsenic individual users connected Family and Duo plans, it adds an other 15 hours of listening connected apical of nan 15 hours disposable for Premium subscribers.

If you're an individual Spotify Premium subscriber, it's reasonably straightforward upgrade. Paying an other $12 per period for Audiobooks+ (on apical of nan $12 per period you're paying for Premium) nets you 15 other hours of audiobook listening, connected apical of nan 15 free hours already included successful nan plan.

Here's really it useful if you're successful a $20 Premium Family aliases $17 Duo plan. First of all, while those plans do see 15 hours of free audiobook listening, they tin only beryllium accessed by nan scheme manager. With Audiobooks+, though, different scheme members tin now salary for access. All they request to do is inquire nan scheme head to adhd nan Audiobooks+ option, again for $12 per month, and they'll summation 15 hours of listening. The scheme head tin besides acquisition a $13.00 one-time 10-hour top-up (for themselves aliases different scheme members) successful bid to decorativeness a book.

Spotify has gradually expanded its Audiobooks contented offerings complete nan past twelvemonth aliases two, having recently added book patient Bloomsbury. The institution besides offers an audiobook-only subscription plan priced astatine $10 per period for 15 hours of listening. Depending connected nan audiobook, however, it whitethorn beryllium cheaper conscionable to bargain it outright than topping up your Spotify relationship if you want to perceive to aggregate titles successful a month. Along pinch nan US, Ireland and Canada, Audiobooks+ is now disposable successful nan UK, Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, nan Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein