Now, users have to go to Spotify’s audiobooks hub in a web browser or through the desktop app in order to make a purchase. The new audiobook page on iOS doesn’t provide any checkout information.

The 15 hours provided to Premium subscribers is a “nice to have” if you also stream music on the platform, especially if you only listen to a handful of shorter book titles every month. Spotify also ...

Billed as ‘Audiobooks+’ and ‘Audiobooks+ for Plan Members’, Spotify’s new audiobook add-ons offer additional listening hours for Premium subscribers, giving users more flexible subscription plan ...

Spotify Premium subscribers, including Family and Duo plan members, now have access to the Audiobooks+ add-on, which gives you 15 extra hours of listening time per month.

Spotify is expanding access to its Audiobook Plus and Audiobook Plus for Plan Members add-ons to users in the US.

Spotify's original plan was to let customers know an audiobook was for sale and email them a link to buy it from the web. Unfortunately, Apple rejected two proposed fixes before finally allowing ...

Spotify's Audiobooks+ plan is now in the US, letting Duo and Family plan members share 15 hours of audiobook access monthly ...

Apple in 2022 rejected Spotify's audiobook update several times and ultimately did not allow Spotify to direct users to purchase audiobooks through an in-app email signup button.

Spotify Adds Audiobook Purchases in iOS App Article Comments May 20, 2025, 11:37 AM by Rich Brome @rbrome.bsky.social ...

Instead, users will have to manually exit the Spotify app and go to the web to make their purchases. Spotify teases Apple on a pop-up message: “You can’t buy audiobooks in the app.

For reference, Spotify currently gives Premium users 15 hours of audiobook listening time per month. Users in the US can now ...

Spotify broadens war on Apple over audiobook purchases This March 20, 2018, file photo shows the Spotify app on an iPad in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) more > ...