Spotify Provides Blackstone, Bonnier UK to Its Audiobook Catalog

Spotify has partnered with Blackstone Publishing and Bonnier Books UK so as to add their audiobooks to the platform. The brand new partnership will add a number of thousand new titles to Spotify’s Audiobooks in Premium service, which launched final October and gives paying subscribers with entry to fifteen hours of audiobook content material per thirty days from a catalog of greater than 250,000 titles.

Blackstone Publishing, a fast-growing and revered U.S. publishing home, will contribute titles together with Whoopi Goldberg’s new memoir, Bits and Items: My Mom, My Brother, and Me; Hell Divers XI: Renegades by Nicholas Sansbury Smith; and Cool Meals: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Chew at a Time by Robert Downey Jr. and Thomas Kostigen. In a press release, Anthony Goff, president of Blackstone Publishing, expressed enthusiasm for the partnership: “Blackstone Publishing couldn’t be happier to have [Spotify] as a brand new accomplice as we frequently look widen the scope of the market and get listening to books the mass enchantment that it has all the time deserved.”

Bonnier Books UK will carry titles similar to The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christie Lefteri, Audacity by Katherine Ryan, and Parenting Hell by Josh Widdicombe and Rob Beckett to the platform. “Spotify’s Audiobooks in Premium program is one other optimistic step ahead for authors and publishers, and we look ahead to Bonnier Books UK audiobooks being loved by a brand new era of audio listeners,” stated Perminder Mann, CEO of Bonnier Books UK.

Duncan Bruce, director of audiobook partnerships and licensing at Spotify, added: “We would like Spotify to be the most effective place for authors and publishers to get their books heard, and to carry nice audio tales to as many individuals as potential.”