Spotify looks to be moving into audiobooks, following new acquisition

(Pocket-lint) - Audiobook loving Spotify subscribers whitethorn person crushed to observe today. A caller acquisition hints astatine Spotify gathering retired an audiobook room of its own.

The euphony streaming elephantine has acquired a institution called Findaway, with a level that is big to implicit 325,000 audiobooks. The Ohio-based institution has partnerships with galore large retailers including Amazon and Apple, arsenic good arsenic its ain tools for audiobook creators.

It has not been made wide what Spotify's plans are with its latest acquisition, but we'd hazard a conjecture that determination volition beryllium overmuch much audiobook contented coming to Spotify.

In aboriginal 2020 astatine the commencement of the pandemic, Spotify experimented by adding a fistful of nationalist domain books narrated by celebrities, on with the archetypal Harry Potter novel. 

At the time, Spotify did not remark connected whether to expect a larger room of audiobooks to beryllium made available. Instead stating that it runs a batch of tests, immoderate conscionable for the involvement of learning, alternatively than thing that becomes portion of the product. In the clip since, we person not seen immoderate enactment successful the space.

There are similarities to beryllium noted with the mode Spotify approached its determination into podcasts. The marque began by utilizing a fig of acquisitions to bolster its catalogue and instauration tools anterior to the afloat roll-out.

It's excessively aboriginal to accidental thing definitive, but things are surely looking up for keen audiobook listeners.

Writing by Luke Baker. Originally published connected 12 November 2021.