Spotify is adding another 1,000 audiobooks for Premium subscribers

Over a thousand books from one hundred publishers

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Spotify’s catalog of audiobooks just got a whole lot bigger. The streamer has signed a new deal with Ingram Content Group (ICG), who have the distribution rights for a lot of smaller publishers and independent publishers; according to the firm, “if you’re reading a book, Ingram Content Group is probably behind it.”

The deal is a significant one because some of the most interesting books published don’t necessarily come from the industry giants. According to Duncan Bruce, director of audiobook partnerships and licensing at Spotify, the deal is “part of our goal to bring more independent authors to Spotify to get their books heard through our Audiobooks in Premium offering”.

What books will you be able to listen to on Spotify now?

According toPublisher’s Weekly, the new titles include “Ada Limón’s self-narrated poetry collectionThe Hurting Kind… as well as Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize–winning novelThe Promiseand Anne Berest’s international bestsellerThe Postcard”.Some of the publishers included in the new deal are Europa Editions, Milkweed Editions, G&D Media, Bard Press, and New Society Publishers.

Spotify has been in the audiobook business since 2022 when it first added audiobooks to its US catalog, rolling them out to the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand later the same year before bringing Canada on board in early 2023. There were 300,000 books available at launch and the catalog has been growing ever since.

According to Spotify, the biggest hits aren’t brand new books but ones from the backlist, which is what publishers call older books that are still in print or available digitally. Nine of the 10 most-streamed audiobooks are backlist titles, and six of them were released more than five years ago.

As with Spotify’s existing audiobook catalog, the new titles will be exclusive to Premium subscribers.

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.

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