The podcast and music streaming service will have audio book.
Spotify users are now able to purchase more than 300,000 audiobook titles, the company announced Tuesday. Spotify introduced podcasts in 2015 and is now home to more than 4.4 million of them. The company decided to introduce audiobooks because they represent a “substantial untapped market.”
The move also vaults Spotify into more direct competition with Amazon-owned Audible. Spotify users interested in listening to audiobooks can find them in their search, library and their curated recommendations on their homepage. The audiobooks will feature a lock icon over the play button to indicate that they need to be purchased.
Spotify plans to introduce audiobooks to new markets and add new features after the initial U.S. launch.
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