Spotify officially entered audio book market with a catalog of more than 300,000 titles available to users in the United States within the platform’s main app.

The company knows the numbers of the market it has just entered. Although audiobooks represent a 6-7% share of the book market, it is a category that grows by about 20% each year.

Audiobooks thus join other offerings already offered by the Spotify streaming platform, music and podcasts. This makes it “the real destination for everyone’s listening needs,” as Spotify puts it on its official blog.

This is how audiobooks appear in the Spotify app: a section in the library where users can search for titles that interest them. They will also be able to access recommendations based on their interests from the home page.

Initially, the audiobook catalog was available to users in the United States. They have access 300,000+ titles means they can buy from a website. The audiobooks they purchased appear in your library. You’ll also have options to download offline content, bookmarks to pick up where you left off, and rating and commenting.

«Just like we do with podcasts, This will introduce a new format to a never-before-consumed audience and unlock a whole new segment of potential listeners.”

The company plans to add new features to this content and expand it to other markets.