Spotify Partners With Bookshop.org to Offer Physical Books

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

But this isn’t the only bookish expansion Spotify has announced. Since launching its audiobooks feature in 2022, Spotify’s catalog has grown almost five times—from 150,000 to 700,000 titles. And, since launching the Page Match feature in February, which allows readers to seamlessly switch between a physical book and its audiobook, Spotify has added 30 more languages (including French, German, and Swedish). 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 previously,” which means that people who were previously only reading the physical book are now moving between formats.

Audiobook Recaps and Audiobook Charts have also expanded. Audiobook Recaps are also now available for Android users, and Audiobook Charts are now available in Germany, while a new Kids & Family Audiobook Chart feature has become available in the US, UK, and Germany. The Audiobook Charts function in the same way Spotify’s music and podcast charts do—they highlight the most popular audiobooks on the app, based on listeners’ behavior and engagement.

With all of these new announcements and changes, it’s clear Spotify is entering into a new bookish era, one that may change the book world in big ways.