https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/20/spotify-brings-audiobooks-to-u-s-users-with-a-catalog-of-300000-titles-to-start/

Spotify is today launching support for audiobooks on its streaming service, offering a third type of audio content for its customers beyond music and podcasts. Initially, audiobooks will be made available to U.S. users who will be able to access a selection of some 300,000 titles, recommended by Spotify editors. But over time, the company says it plans to expand audiobooks to other markets, grow its selection, and begin to use algorithmic recommendations to suggest books to users, as it does now with its other audio formats.

The titles will be discoverable in a new “Audiobooks” hub in the Spotify app and in other areas, including users’ curated recommendations, where they can be purchased a la carte.