Love audiobooks but hate rationing your listening hours? Spotify hears you. The streaming platform has rolled out two new audiobook plans that make sense, especially if you are on a Premium Family or Duo plan. It is now available across several countries (the U.K., Australia, France, Germany, and the rest of the EU). Spotify’s new Audiobooks+ and Audiobooks+ for Plan Members are making it easier to dive into your TBR list without needing to beg your plan manager for mercy.
This is Spotify’s new audiobook update:
- Audiobooks+: This feature allows Premium subscribers (or the person who pays for everyone else’s streaming) to add 15 extra hours of audiobook listening per month to their plan. That is double the current 15 hours already included in Premium, meaning more chapters, more drama, more plot.
- Audiobooks+ for Plan Members: Finally, the rest of the household gets some love. If you are on a Family or Duo plan, you can now request your own 15 hours of listening time. No more “why is Mum the only one who gets to listen to Colleen Hoover?”
There is also a one-time 10-hour top-up option, because running out of listening time two days before the month ends is a tragedy that should never happen.
Still, there is no U.S. expansion for this, though. U.S. customers are currently stuck with the standalone Audiobooks Access Plan, but if you are in Ireland or Canada, congrats, you get to test this before the rest of us. Fancy. Spotify didn’t drop exact prices yet, but they say pricing varies by market. We will keep an eye out.
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Audiobook access used to be a one-person luxury on shared Spotify plans; if you didn’t own the account, tough luck. This update not only fixes that but signals Spotify’s larger ambition to make audiobooks as mainstream as music and podcasts. They are working with Eleven Labs to use AI for multilingual narration.
Spotify isn’t just selling you more hours; it is selling flexibility. The freedom to dabble in Dostoevsky or drift off to a rom-com without committing to an audiobook marriage. It is the anti-Audible move: No regrets, no wasted credits, no awkward unfinished books staring at you from your library. With 375,000 titles on the menu, and AI slowly stepping in to speed up narration and translation, it’s clear: Spotify isn’t just streaming soundtracks anymore, it is coming for your bookshelves too.
