“Now we’re expanding Spotify‘s discovery and engagement capabilities across audio and physical formats. We believe the future of reading or listening needs to be flexible and fit better into people’s lives,” he said on Thursday press release Owen Smith, Global Head of Audiobooks at Spotify.
The Swedish company reminds that it will offer audiobooks from 2022. In a way, it will connect the sale of physical books with audiobooks. “Introducing Page Match, a first-of-its-kind feature that allows readers to seamlessly switch between the print (or e-book) and audiobook versions of a title,” the release reads. In layman’s terms, if a person does not enjoy listening to a book, he will start reading, and vice versa.
“It’s the most exciting development in reading technology I’ve heard of in years because it will get more people reading and listening to books,” said American author Harlan Coben.
“We’re excited to see the impact Spotify’s scale will have on local bookstores,” said Andy Hunter, founder and CEO of Bookshop.org.
Print books remain the preferred format for most readers, accounting for nearly 73 percent of trade publishing revenue last year, according to a Spotify report.
However, some foreign servers remind us that sales of physical books tend to slow down. He writes about it, for example TheDrive with Baker & Taylor, for example, a nearly 200-year-old book distributor, going out of business in January.
date:2026-02-08 11:22:00
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