Spotify officially entered the audiobook market with a catalog of more than 300,000 titles that are available to US users within the platform’s main app.

The company knows the figures of the market in which it has just entered. Although audiobooks represent a 6-7 % share of the book market, it is a category that is growing by around 20 % each year.

The audiobooks thus join the other proposals already offered by the “streaming”, music and podcast platform, which makes it “the true destination for everyone’s listening needs”, as the company pointed out in its blog. official.

Audiobooks will appear in the Spotify app as a section in users’ library, where they can search for titles that interest them or access recommendations based on their interests from the home page.

Initially, the audiobook catalog is available to users in the United States, who have access to more than 300,000 titles, which they can buy on a website. The audiobook you buy will appear in your library, and you’ll have options like offline content download, bookmarking to pick up where you left off, and the ability to rate and comment.

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Spotify will start testing audiobooks on its streaming platform “very soon”, a decision that is part of its product catalog expansion plans after implementing the programs or podcast.

The technology company understands that they can offer an improved user experience for audiobooks, as they have already done with podcasts, indicated the chief financial officer of Spotify, Paul Vogel, on the sidelines of the second annual Evercore ISI conference.

The introduction of audiobooks would respond to the streaming audio platform’s plans to expand its product catalog, where they see growth opportunities in both established and developing markets.

Vogel noted that tests with the audiobooks will begin “very soon,” after the company has been working on its implementation for the past year. Within this strategy is the acquisition of the Findaway audiobook distributor.

Adding audiobooks to its platform would allow Spotify to compete with services like Amazon’s Audible or Scribd, among others. However, it has already made small forays into the area before, testing the format in January last year with classics like Frankenstein, Persuasion, Great Expectations, and the first book in the Harry Potter series.

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