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September 7, 2023: Spotify plans to offer its premium customers free audiobooks for a limited time as part of a test to gauge user interest. Subcribers will be able to listen to up to 20 hours of free audiobooks a month. Spotify is currently working with some of the largest audiobooks publishers in the U.S. A number of compensation models for the publishers have been discussed, including payment based on the number of hours a user spend on the audiobooks. The test will be launched in a number of english-speaking countries, including the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K. Under the pilot program, users will access the audiobooks directly from Spotify App<ref>https://www.wsj.com/business/media/spotify-to-offer-paying-subscribers-free-audiobook-trial-80e9eb68</ref>. | |||
March 22,2023. Spotify expands its audiobooks to Canada, making them available in both English and French. It said its audiobooks catalog has now grown to 350,000 titles from the 300,000 initially. The company added that it is “seeing positive engagement,” among audiobooks users<ref>https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/21/spotify-brings-its-new-audiobooks-service-to-canada/</ref>. | March 22,2023. Spotify expands its audiobooks to Canada, making them available in both English and French. It said its audiobooks catalog has now grown to 350,000 titles from the 300,000 initially. The company added that it is “seeing positive engagement,” among audiobooks users<ref>https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/21/spotify-brings-its-new-audiobooks-service-to-canada/</ref>. | ||