a little over a year We told you that Spotify is starting to offer its users a catalog of more than 300,000 audiobooks, but unlike the rest of the content on the platform, access to it in this case was not limited to the platform’s premium subscription, but had to be purchased individually. That said, if you were a Spotify Free or Premium user, if you wanted a book, you had no choice but to look.

Although I was disrupting their business model until then, I understand the decision.. After all, Amazon also offers both a music streaming service (Prime Music) and an audiobook service (Audible), but offers them separately, that is, it does not include audiobooks in Prime Music, although it does offer access to audiobooks via subscription. And as for Apple, which also has its streaming music service (Apple Music), it also offers audiobooks, but through Apple Books and by purchase, just like Spotify.

Originally launched in the United States, Spotify’s audiobook service is currently available on Australia, Canada, USA, Ireland, New Zealand and UKand we can expect it to continue to expand internationally in the future, although there is still no public timetable for this. And continuing with what we expect from Spotify in the short term, we also hope that the company will announce and launch Supremium by the end of the year.

Well, today we can read it on her official blog Spotify Premium will now include access to over 150,000 audiobooks. Now, as the title of this news suggests, there is an important limitation to this, and that is that each premium account will have a maximum of 15 hours of audiobook playback per month. This isn’t much of a surprise though (although it is in the picture) as it was leaked a few days ago that it would be 20 hours, not 15.

This also tells us that the arrival of the Supremium plan must be pretty close by now, as the general feeling is Spotify will now include audiobooks in its premium plans to compensate its usersbecause even though the company has leveled its rates with those of other services since this summer, it will continue to offer standard sound quality compared to the HiFi quality that others already provide at the same price.

As for the scope of this news, Spotify is known to be taking the deployment pretty slowly. Audiobooks will thus be available in a premium tariff starting tomorrow in Australia and Canada and at the end of the year in the United States (which could coincide with the Supremium release). There is no news for the rest of the world at this time.