Spotify wants non-English audiobooks badly enough to sink over $1M into it

Spotify’s coming for Audible pretty hard

Apr 11, 2025 - 16:18
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Spotify wants non-English audiobooks badly enough to sink over $1M into it

If you still aren’t aware, Spotify has found a new fad beyond music and podcasts — audiobooks. Launched a couple of years ago, audiobooks are the latest way to consume audio content on the Spotify app. While Spotify undercuts Audible on price, it still lags in catalog size. To fix that, it’s now spending its own money to create more audiobooks in regional languages.