Spotify is expanding its audiobook library with over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles. The content is available in English only, but it will be offered in all Spotify regions where audiobooks are available. The catalog includes articles from Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety, Billboard, Vibe, GQ, WIRED, Vanity Fair, and Pitchfork, with a focus on music and technology topics. Each narrated piece is under two hours and can be listened to using monthly audiobook listening time included with Spotify Premium. Premium provides 15 hours per month, with options to buy additional listening time or individual articles for $2. The narrated articles are produced in-house by the Spotify Audiobooks team.
"Spotify is expanding its offerings with a pretty wide selection of narrated long-form magazine articles from several publications that are most likely already familiar to you. The audio streaming service has announced that it's adding over 650 long-form articles to its audiobook library. While all the pieces it added are in the English language only, they will be available in all of Spotify's regions where audiobooks are available."
"The articles included in this rollout include pieces from Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety, Billboard, Vibe, GQ, WIRED, Vanity Fair and Pitchfork. Spotify has teamed up with more publications, but as you can see, the curated collection offers articles on topics subscribers are most likely interested in, namely music and technology. "With Articles, we're introducing long-form journalism in audio as a natural extension of the music, podcasts, and audiobooks people already come to Spotify for, focused on topics we know they love," said Colleen Prendergast, Licensing Lead at Spotify Audiobooks."
"Each narrated article Spotify has released is under two hours long, and subscribers can listen to them against their audiobooks listening time. A Spotify Premium subscription includes 15 hours of audiobook listening time a month. Voracious readers can purchase top-ups, however, such as the Audiobooks+ monthly add-on with higher listening time limits. They can also just purchase individual articles to listen to for $2 each."
"The company said in its announcement that the narrated articles it released were produced in-house by the Spotify Audiobooks team. We've asked Spotify for clarification whether that means the narrations were done by human talents or generated using AI, and we'll update this post when we hear back."
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