Spotify Partners With Bookshop.org to Offer Physical Books

Spotify has some new books available this spring. For starters, the streaming company is now officially offering physical books in the US and UK through its partnership with Bookshop.org (available today on Android and next week on iOS). Through the Spotify app, users can order physical books from Bookshop.org. As part of Bookshop.org’s mission, books purchased will support local bookstores and authors.

But this isn’t the only book expansion announced by Spotify. Since launching its audiobooks feature in 2022, Spotify’s catalog has grown nearly fivefold — from 150,000 to 700,000 titles. And, since launching page matching In February, Spotify added 30 more languages ​​(including French, German, and Swedish) to the feature, which allows readers to seamlessly switch between a physical book and its audiobook. Spotify has found that people who use Page Match “consume 55% more audiobook hours each week,” and “62% of Page Matched audiobook titles on Spotify are books the user had never streamed before,” meaning people who were previously only reading the physical book are now moving between formats.