Spotify launches audiobooks in SA – Gadget

Audiobooks are actually accessible on Spotify in South Africa. The catalogue spans bestsellers, new releases and style favourites. They embrace Shining Girls by South African creator Lauren Beukes, in addition to Heated Rivalry, Fourth Wing and the You and Me on Vacation.

“Whether you are commuting, exercising or winding down, modern life does not always leave time to sit down and read,” stated Spotify in a press launch. “Audiobooks make it easier to fit books into everyday routines, with your next listen sitting right alongside your favourite playlists and podcasts.”

For publishers, the platform gives an extra distribution channel and instruments to trace how audiences interact with titles. For authors, it offers publicity inside a service already utilized by thousands and thousands, creating alternatives to succeed in new audiences and construct longer-term readership.

Together, these additions place audiobooks alongside music and podcasts on Spotify, integrating long-form listening into the platform’s current audio providing whereas increasing how books are accessed and consumed in SA.

Getting began with Spotify audiobooks

Premium Platinum subscribers obtain 12 hours of audiobook listening monthly as a part of their plan. Users who want extra time can buy an extra 10-hour top-up.

To entry the providing, customers can go to the audiobooks hub on the prime of the Spotify homepage or use search to discover a particular title. The hub contains really useful sections highlighting new and trending releases.

Spotify permits customers to preview titles by listening to snippets, studying brief critiques, and following authors throughout the app. Audiobooks might be saved to a consumer’s library for simpler entry, together with offline listening.

Audiobooks embrace options aimed toward making it simpler to change between studying and listening. Page Match permits customers to proceed from the place they stopped studying by scanning a web page from a bodily e book or e-book, after which Spotify matches the corresponding audio.