Spotify introduced on Tuesday that it’s bringing its free audiobooks perk to Canada, Eire and New Zealand. Customers in these markets will have the ability to entry 15 hours of free month-to-month audiobook listening time. Spotify additionally introduced that it’s increasing its audiobooks catalog from 200,000 to 250,000 titles. The perk is already accessible within the U.S., U.Ok. and Australia.
The enlargement comes two months after Spotify stated its audiobooks service is the second-largest audiobook provider behind Amazon-owned Audible. Spotify says customers have listened to greater than 150,000 titles because the free service’s launch last November.
Audiobooks may be discovered within the Residence feed of the Spotify app or by way of the search tab. Any audiobook marked as “Included in Premium” may be listened to with a Spotify Premium subscription. You possibly can monitor your listening hours within the settings of your Spotify app. If you happen to run out of listening hours, you should purchase further 10-hour allocations for CAD $14.99, IRE €12.99 and NZD $19.99.
Spotify not too long ago launched a $9.99 per month plan that enables its free customers to entry its audiobooks assortment within the U.S. The plan, which incorporates 15 hours of listening, provides Spotify a option to compete with Audible by focusing on customers who aren’t as all for its music service. Whereas Audible’s $14.95 per thirty days subscription provides customers one credit score to purchase a title, Spotify’s $9.99 plan permits customers to pay attention to fifteen hours throughout its catalog, which is commonly sufficient time to take heed to a couple of audiobook.
