{"id":41205,"date":"2024-07-30T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=41205"},"modified":"2024-07-30T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:52:34","slug":"spotify-enhances-audiobook-collection-with-new-publisher-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/30\/spotify-enhances-audiobook-collection-with-new-publisher-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify Enhances Audiobook Collection with New Publisher Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Emmanuel Ogbodo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After launching a dedicated tier for audiobooks, Spotify is expanding its library to entice more customers to subscribe, despite the premium cost.<\/p>\n<p>The leading music streaming service has struck a major deal to incorporate audiobooks from over 100 publishers distributed by Ingram. Notable publishers like Europa Editions, Milkweed Editions, G&amp;D Media, Bard Press, and New Society Publishers are now part of Spotify\u2019s offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify has announced some of the audiobooks available to its subscribers, including The Hurting Kind, Mo Bunnell\u2019s upcoming Give to Grow, and bestselling author Bob Proctor\u2019s Born Rich.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. listeners can also enjoy Damon Galgut\u2019s Booker Prize-winning novel The Promise and Anne Berest\u2019s international bestseller The Postcard.<\/p>\n<p>Since integrating audiobooks into its Premium service last year, Spotify reports a surge in users exploring diverse book selections, with hundreds of thousands of unique titles streamed.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, it&#8217;s not just new releases gaining traction; back catalogue titles are also drawing significant interest. Of Spotify&#8217;s top 10 audiobooks, nine are from the backlist, and six were released over five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This marks Spotify&#8217;s second major audiobooks announcement. In May, the company revealed a deal with Bonnier Books UK and Blackstone Publishing to include their audio titles in its Audiobooks\u00a0offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Ogbodo After launching a dedicated tier for audiobooks, Spotify is expanding its library to entice more customers to subscribe, despite the premium cost. The leading music streaming service has struck a major deal to incorporate audiobooks from over 100 publishers distributed by Ingram. Notable publishers like Europa Editions, Milkweed Editions, G&amp;D Media, Bard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41206,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41205\/revisions\/41206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}