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Spotify to Let Users Buy Physical Books on App Through Bookshop.org ...
Spotify partners with Bookshop.org to sell physical books via its app, supporting local bookstores and offering over 500,000 titles with new features for audiobook users.
- On Thursday, Spotify will let premium subscribers in the U.S. and U.K. buy hardcovers and paperbacks through Bookshop.org beginning this spring, with Bookshop.org handling pricing, inventory, and fulfillment.
- With the library expanding, Spotify grew its audiobook collection from 150,000 to over 500,000, and reported 37% more customers starting audiobooks over the past year.
- Page Match lets users scan a physical page with their phone camera to jump to the exact audiobook spot using computer vision; it is currently available to premium subscribers and will expand to all audiobook users by late February, covering most English-language titles.
- The partnership could benefit independent booksellers by directing every purchase via Spotify to local independent bookstores, while positioning Spotify against Amazon and Barnes & Noble in a low-margin sector raising streaming margins concerns.
- This spring, Spotify will launch the 'Add to your bookshelf at home' button on audiobook pages as Page Match expands ahead of February 10.
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Spotify's new Page Match feature helps you go between a paper book and audiobook.SpotifySpotify has launched "Page Match," which helps you switch between audiobooks and physical copies.This solves a problem I have: switching between listening to the audio version of a book I'm also reading in paper form.Finally!Recently, I found myself in a pickle. I had a physical copy of a book from the library I wanted to read — a history of the Battle of Bun…
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