Spotify Introduces Audiobooks in India

Mumbai: A thriller on the local train. A memoir on the morning walk. Philosophy before lights out. From today, Spotify brings audiobooks to India, putting your music, podcasts and books in one place.

With Audiobooks+, listeners get 15 hours a month, with an option to top up or buy individual titles, across a vast catalogue of classics, blockbusters and new discoveries, moving with them alongside their music and podcasts.

Spotify's monthly audiobook listeners are up around 40% year on year, listening hours have grown more than 30%, and in the US, 18 to 34 year olds make up 57% of audiobook listeners on the platform. Spotify now carries more than 8,00,000 audiobooks from nearly 300 publishers and over 50,000 authors worldwide.

A catalogue built for India: Choose from more than 3,50,000 English titles and almost 7,000 Indian-language audiobooks at launch, from global bestsellers to Indian voices. Audiences can delve into rich regional narratives across Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. The collection spans literary masterpieces such as Premchand’s Godaan, Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan, and Tagore’s Kabuliwala, along with celebrated works including Dharamvir Bharati’s Gunahon Ka Devta and Ami Ganatra’s Mahabharata Unravelled.

For ₹199 a month, Audiobooks+ gives you 15 hours of listening across the full catalogue, whether you’re on Free or Premium. How you spend those hours is entirely up to you: move between several books at once, sample a few chapters, explore an unfamiliar genre, or start a new title whenever inspiration strikes. Need more time? Top up your hours or buy individual titles outright. Start listening today with Audiobooks+, right in your Spotify app, or head to the hub to learn more.

Discovery that knows your taste: Your next favourite book finds you the way your next favourite artist does, through personalised recommendations and audiobook charts shaped by what you love. Thrillers, mysteries, romance, self-help, fantasy—there’s a story for every mood.

Page Match, so you never lose your place: Scan the ISBN of the book in your hands and Spotify picks up the audiobook from the exact page, so the story keeps going when you have to get going. More than one million people have used Page Match globally since February.

Listen offline: Download audiobooks and listen without a connection, just like your music and podcasts.

Set a Sleep Timer: Drift off to a story, and it’ll stop playing when you do.

With this launch, Spotify for Authors is available to writers in India. Self-published and independent authors can distribute their audiobooks on Spotify, view insights on their listeners worldwide, and access marketing tools including redemption codes. Partnerships are non-exclusive, and authors retain the freedom to distribute their work on other platforms.

Update to the latest version of the Spotify app and open the Audiobooks hub, or search for any title

Choose a book and add Audiobooks+

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