This time, it's there. After a very long wait, American Spotify users can get audiobooks on the streaming platform. The Swedish service already offers a library of 300,000 titles, and plans to extend access to audiobooks to other markets soon. It competes with certain well-established players in the sector such as Amazon's Audible and Apple Books.
Strained relations between Apple and Spotify
Spotify also explains that it intends to take advantage of algorithmic recommendations to suggest books to its customers. The platform's AI has made its reputation, and many Internet users rely on it to recommend certain musical titles or podcasts to listen to.
According toTechcrunch, Spotify will offer certain features already offered by other services, such as the possibility of downloading titles to listen to them offline, changing the reading speed, or even listening to your book on several media.
Interestingly, the Swedish company will direct to its own website for finalizing purchases. The platform is able to avoid in-app purchases on iOS following a decision taken by Apple last March. It allows applications that provide access to digital content such as the press, books, music, or videos to use external links.
In the past, relations between Spotify and Apple have beenextremely tense. Horacio Gutierrez, head of international affairs and legal director of Spotify, estimated last year that the in-app purchasing system decreed by the Apple brand prevents “competitors to arrive and offer alternative payment systems».
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