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Spotify testing out more audiobooks as part of non-music programming
January 26, 2021
While you probably listen mostly to music on Spotify, the music streaming giant has been exploring other non-music programming to cater to those who want to go beyond music. We’ve seen how podcasts have been given a special place right alongside albums and artists. Now it looks like they’re testing out another form of audio content – audiobooks. While we can see a few audiobooks here previously, they’re now adding more to their collection and using star power to capture listeners’ interest.
Spotify says this isn’t a major release just yet but is part of their many tests that they regularly to “to improve its user experience” as per The Hollywood Reporter. They are releasing a small collection of exclusive audiobooks, for now, to test out the waters and see if they will be able to generate enough interest from its user base and maybe take on the “giants”, including the Amazon-
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How Yevgeny Zamyatin shaped dystopian fiction While Wells, Huxley and Orwell invented flawed worlds, the Soviet writer was living in one.
Literary Gazette under the title “Certificate concerning social eugenics”, one of them read: Type: Zamiatin. Genus: Evgeny. Class: bourgeois. In the village: a kulak. The product of degeneration. Footnote: an enemy. With its threatening references to degeneration and eugenics, this ditty would not have been out of place in
Der Stürmer, the Nazi tabloid that was being published in Germany at the time. For Zamyatin, one of the best known authors living in the Soviet Union, the attack was the culmination of years of dangerous insecurity. In September 1929 he resigned from the Soviet Union of Writers, and in June 1931 wrote to Stalin asking permission to leave the country. Maxim Gorky interceded on Zamyatin’s behalf, and his request was granted. Accompanied by his wife, Lyudmila, he left Russia in November 1931 and settled in Paris, wh