How to Listen to Audiobooks on Spotify
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You might already use Spotify to supply a round-the-clock soundtrack of music and podcasts while you navigate work and life, but the platform is giving you another reason to keep its app open all day with a new offering: Audiobooks.
This isn’t the first time Spotify has dipped into audiobook territory before last year the company unveiled “Harry Potter at Home,” in which a cast of stars read the first novel in the famed fantasy series but its latest effort is certainly its most ambitious attempt so far at breaking into the $US1.5 ($2) billion industry. The company released nine public domain titles on Monday, including Mary Shell
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Nine classic audiobooks including Cynthia Erivo s narration of Persuasion and Hilary Swank s reading of The Awakening are now available on Spotify.
Spotify on Monday released a small collection of exclusive audiobook recordings on its platform, a move that signals its interest in continuing to broaden its library of non-music programming.
The company is characterizing the release as one of many tests that it regularly runs to help it improve its user experience, but in success, the initiative could give it a roadmap for how to take on giants in the space, including Amazon-owned Audible.
The nine audiobooks that are now available on Spotify are all part of the public domain, but the original recordings are exclusive to the streaming platform. David Dobrik narrates Mary Shelley’s
Spotify now hosts audiobook recordings from YouTuber David Dobrik and actress Hilary Swank
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Spotify isn’t limiting its audio ambitions to podcasts and music. Today the company announced it’s furthering its audiobook experiments with the release of nine new audiobooks available exclusively in the app. As first reported by
The Hollywood Reporter, among the works, which are all part of the public domain, are David Dobrik narrating Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein; Forest Whitaker reading Frederick Douglass’ memoir
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; and Hilary Swank narrating Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. It’s also releasing an accompanying audio series called
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