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Audiobooks

12 articles tagged with “Audiobooks”

Spotify Launches Audiobook Charts and Page Match — Competing Directly with Audible's Whispersync

Spotify has launched two significant new audiobook features: weekly Audiobook Charts in the US and UK, available to both free and Premium users, and Page Match, a camera-based tool that lets listeners scan a page of a physical book or e-reader and jump to the corresponding position in the audiobook. The charts cover both overall rankings and genre-specific lists. Page Match directly challenges Audible's long-standing Whispersync feature.

March 24, 2026Spotify Newsroom

Spotify Audiobooks Page Match

Passenger wearing headphones on long-haul flight watching audiobook interface on seatback screen at sunset

Audiobooks & Streaming

British Airways Partners with Audible for In-Flight Audiobooks — Harry Potter Full-Cast Series as UK Airline Exclusive

British Airways has partnered with Audible to offer more than 250 hours of free audiobooks and podcasts across all long-haul flights, accessible through the in-flight entertainment system. The selection includes the newly released Harry Potter full-cast audio editions — featuring over 200 British actors including Hugh Laurie, Matthew Macfadyen, Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Simon Pegg, and Kit Harington — as a UK airline exclusive. Passengers who are new to Audible can sign up for a free two-month trial to continue listening after landing. This marks the first time Audible has been available on a UK airline.

March 24, 2026British Airways Media Centre

British Airways Audible Audiobooks

Spotify Audiobook and Podcast Stage at LA Times Festival of Books on USC campus with large crowd

Audiobooks & Audio

Spotify's Audiobook Stage at LA Times Festival of Books Signals the Format's Arrival at the Literary Mainstream

The 31st annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (April 18-19, 2026, at the University of Southern California) will debut a dedicated Audiobook and Podcast Stage presented by Spotify — the first time the festival has given audio formats their own dedicated programming space. The stage will feature audiobook narrators, podcast hosts, and industry experts alongside the festival's main author lineup.

March 23, 2026AOL / LA Times

Spotify Audiobooks LA Times Festival of Books

Young Indian woman on a Mumbai commuter train wearing headphones, holding a smartphone showing a Hindi-script audiobook cover for Ramayana Unravelled

Audiobooks & Audio

Bloomsbury India's Hindi Audiobook Push Signals a New Chapter for Regional-Language Publishing

Bloomsbury India's launch of a bilingual audiobook slate in English and Hindi — distributed across Audible, Spotify, Google Play Books, and seven other platforms — is being read in regional Indian media as a landmark moment for Hindi-language audio publishing, with titles including Ami Ganatra's Ramayana Unravelled, a Virat Kohli biography, and William Dalrymple's The Golden Road.

March 18, 2026Kashmir Observer

Audiobooks India Hindi

Open book with sound waves rising before Indian architectural arches, headphones resting on Hindi and English books

Audiobooks & Audio

Bloomsbury India Launches Major Audiobook Slate in English and Hindi Ahead of Navratri

Bloomsbury India has announced an expansive audiobook slate in both English and Hindi, distributed across Audible, Spotify, Google Play Books, Apple Books, and six other platforms. The launch includes Ami Ganatra's Ramayana Unravelled and Mahabharata Unravelled, a Virat Kohli biography, and titles by Shiv Khera and William Dalrymple.

March 17, 2026Times of India

Audiobooks India Bloomsbury

World map with glowing data points showing book market growth, with India and Brazil highlighted

Market Data

NielsenIQ: International Book Markets in 2025 — Fiction Drives Growth as Non-Fiction Struggles

NielsenIQ BookData and GfK Entertainment released their annual international book market data at the London Book Fair, showing revenue growth in 12 of 19 territories in 2025, led by India (+20.7%), Brazil (+11.2%), and Mexico (+7%), while major European markets continued to decline.

March 17, 2026NielsenIQ

Market Data Global Publishing NielsenIQ

Audible global expansion map showing 11 new markets across Europe, Middle East, and Asia

Audiobooks & Audio

Audible Expands to 11 New Markets, Including Sweden

Audible CEO Bob Carrigan announced at the London Book Fair that the platform will expand to 11 new international markets with localized experiences, marking a significant push into underserved audiobook regions.

March 16, 2026Publishing Perspectives

Audiobooks Market Expansion Audible

Wireless headphones resting on a stack of books beside a smartphone showing Spotify Audiobooks

Audiobooks & Audio

Spotify at LBF: Audiobook Catalog Grows to 700,000 Titles in Two Years

Spotify announced at the London Book Fair that its audiobook catalog has grown from 150,000 titles at launch to more than 700,000 in just two years — a fourfold increase. The company positioned itself as a multi-format reading platform, highlighting features like Page Match and Recaps, and noted that 52% of UK audiobook listeners are under 35.

March 13, 2026Spotify Newsroom

Spotify Audiobooks London Book Fair

World map with glowing connection points showing global expansion

Audiobooks

Audible Expands into 11 New International Markets at London Book Fair

Audible CEO Bob Carrigan announced at the London Book Fair that the platform is expanding into 11 new territories, with localised content strategies and partnerships with regional publishers to accelerate audiobook adoption in markets where the format is still nascent.

March 11, 2026Audible

Audible International Expansion Amazon

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Production Technology

Bookwire and ElevenLabs Partner to Bring AI Narration to Independent Publishers

European e-book and audiobook distributor Bookwire has announced a partnership with AI voice company ElevenLabs to offer independent publishers affordable AI-narrated audiobook production, potentially transforming the economics of backlist audio conversion.

March 8, 2026Bookwire

AI Narration ElevenLabs Bookwire

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Audiobooks

Audible Launches $8.99 'Standard' Plan to Compete with Spotify and Libro.fm

Amazon's Audible has introduced a new lower-priced 'Standard' subscription tier at $8.99 per month, significantly undercutting its existing Premium Plus plan and signalling intensifying competition in the audiobook subscription market.

March 8, 2026Audible

Audible Audiobooks Subscription

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Market Growth

News Corp Touts Digital Growth and AI at Morgan Stanley Conference

At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, News Corp CEO Robert Thomson highlighted HarperCollins' digital growth. He noted that the publisher's partnership with Spotify is boosting audiobook adoption and that e-book sales are rising. The company continues to focus on digital expansion and exploring opportunities in AI. ---

March 3, 2026Investing.com

Digital Publishing Audiobooks AI in Publishing