Spotify Will Let Prospects Purchase a Onerous-Copy Guide With a Click on within the App

Can one of many largest suppliers of music streaming providers save the nook bookstore? On Wednesday, Spotify launched a function within the US and UK that can let some subscribers order a bodily e book with a single click on within the app.

The function is thru a partnership with Bookshop.org, a web based service provider whose mission is “to assist native, unbiased bookstores thrive within the age of e-commerce.” The vendor provides 80% of its income to unbiased bookstores and has raised greater than $46 million since its launch in 2020. Guide patrons can both buy from an unbiased retailer or straight from the positioning, with a portion of their buy going right into a profit-sharing pool.

Spotify’s international head of audiobooks, Owen Smith, mentioned in a information assertion that the streaming big needs to make “studying match into fashionable life” and make “it simpler for individuals to have interaction with books whereas supporting progress for authors and publishers alongside the best way.” Spotify’s collaboration with Bookshop was introduced in February.

Spotify mentioned the brand new function was “rolling out” to Android customers on Wednesday and ought to be accessible on iOS gadgets subsequent week. 

Nevertheless, the corporate did not specify whether or not all Spotify Premium subscribers may have speedy entry. The information assertion additionally did not specify whether or not all audiobook titles out there for listening within the app may even be out there for buy in laborious copy. 

Spotify representatives did not instantly reply to a request for remark.

Although we’ve not been in a position to check the brand new function straight, Spotify supplied photographs displaying methods to entry it. If you’re on a Spotify audiobook “About” web page, you may see a immediate to “Get the print version.” When you click on there, a pop-up seems that can direct you to Bookshop.org, the place you should purchase a bodily copy of the e book or different books. 

Even within the digital age, bodily books nonetheless appear to be thriving. In response to market analysis and consulting agency Grand View Analysis, hard-copy books accounted for greater than 78% of e book gross sales income in 2025, with “a chance to disconnect from screens and escape the fixed interruptions of texts, emails and notifications.”

In its January survey, the American Booksellers Affiliation mentioned 73% of respondents reported their gross sales growing in 2025 in contrast with 2024. 

Along with the Bookshop collaboration, Spotify additionally introduced Wednesday that it has expanded its Web page Match function — which permits Premium subscribers to seamlessly swap between a e book and its audiobook on the app — to greater than 30 languages, together with French, German and Swedish. Readers can use their telephone digital camera to scan a web page from a bodily e book or an book. By analyzing the content material of that web page, the Web page Match device can level the reader to that very same part within the audiobook.

Spotify mentioned that prospects utilizing Web page Match are streaming 55% extra audiobook hours per week on common than different listeners.

One other announcement on Wednesday is that Audiobook Recaps are actually out there on Android, becoming a member of iOS customers in having entry. The function provides brief audio summaries similar to your most up-to-date listening level “to provide you a refresher on the story thus far, making it simpler to leap again in.”