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Spotify to let users buy physical books on app through Bookshop.org ...

On Feb. 5, Spotify launched Page Match and announced a Bookshop.org tie-up to sell physical and e-books later this spring in the U.S. and U.K.
Amid audiobook growth, Spotify is expanding into retail to support indies and diversify its offerings, aiming to boost reading across physical, digital, and audio formats with Bookshop.org.
Page Match uses camera-based computer vision and sentence matching, not AI, and Spotify says it does not retain captured images; it covers most English-language titles by late February.
Bookshop.org will handle pricing, inventory and fulfillment while routing sales through Spotify, which will take a 15% affiliate fee on completed sales benefiting local independent bookstores.
The expansion follows rapid catalog growth to 500,000 titles since launch, and Spotify reports rising listener engagement ahead of fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 10.

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