US Spotify Premium users now get free audiobooks

The Premium subscription just got a lot more useful for Spotify users in the United States. The streaming service has announced that it’s making more than 200,000 audiobooks available for free. Premium subscribers will be able to listen to their favorite audiobooks for a set number of hours with their Premium plan. Spotify had previously […]

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Apple Releases iTunes for Windows Update With Option to Listen to Podcasts and Audiobooks

Apple today released an iTunes 12.13 update for Windows users, with the update adding new functionality for podcasts and audiobooks. According to Apple’s release notes, downloading iTunes 12.13 will allow Windows users to listen to podcasts and audiobooks through the iTunes app so long as the Apple Music and Apple TV apps are installed. iTunes […]

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How to buy and listen to audiobooks on Spotify

Audiobooks offer a hand-free way to consume literature, whether on a long drive or relaxing at home. While Spotify is primarily known for its music and podcast library, it has made audiobooks available for you to enjoy. We’ll walk you through how to buy audiobooks on Spotify, so you’re never without a good book. QUICK […]

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You can now listen to audiobooks on Galaxy Watch via Audible’s Wear OS app

After announcing the Wear OS app in July, along with the launch of the Galaxy Watch 6 series, Amazon-owned audiobook service Audible has finally launched its Wear OS app. The official Wear OS app is now available on the Play Store and supports offline downloads, and you can adjust the playback speed of the podcast […]

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Apple AI Audiobooks: What’s Happening?

AI has been all over the news recently, with services like ChatGPT disrupting entire industries. It seems that the world always reacts too late to revolutionary technology, even though we’ve known about AI and AI-generated content for ages now. Some of those industries include audiobooks and narration. Although the news went largely under the radar, […]

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AI-Narrated Audiobooks Now Available in Apple Books

Apple has now launched Apple Books digital narration, offering a new way for publishers to automatically generate high-quality AI-narrated audio from written text. The feature, first announced in December via the Apple Books for Authors webpage, allows publishers on the Apple Books platform to opt-in to have their written books converted into a narrated audio […]

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Spotify Tests Audiobooks Market With Collection of Literary Classics

Spotify has started releasing audiobook recordings on its streaming platform, indicating the company’s intention to further broaden its library of non-music content (via The Hollywood Reporter). The collection of nine audiobooks are in the public domain, but are original recordings that are exclusive to Spotify. The titles include Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, narrated by David Dobrik, […]

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