New tech news | Spotify gives audiobooks with assistance from some celebrity narrators

Spotify has begun delivering audiobooks on its streaming stage, showing the organization's goal to additionally widen its library of non-music content 

The assortment of nine audiobooks are in the public area, however are unique chronicles that are selective to Spotify. The titles incorporate Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, described by David Dobrik, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, read by Forest Whitaker, and Kate Chopin's The Awakening, read by Hilary Swank, among different works of art. 

The exemplary audiobooks will be accessible free of charge around the world however elevated uniquely to English-talking markets including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Germany. 

Spotify says the assortment is a test to check whether the audiobooks acquire footing on its web-based feature, yet on the off chance that it takes off as webcasts have done on the stage, the organization's plunge into audiobooks could see it take on adversaries like Amazon's Audible and Apple Books in a market that was esteemed at almost $2.7 billion out of 2019, as indicated by a report from Grand View Research. 

In the course of recent years, Spotify has burned through $800 million purchasing podcasting organizations like Gimlet Media and The Ringer, just as procuring the rights to famous web recordings like The Joe Rogan Experience. As indicated by the present report, Spotify currently has 1.9 million digital recordings on its foundation and says 22 percent of its 320 million month to month dynamic clients drew in with that content during the second from last quarter of 2020.

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