

Kate Atkinson’s Shrines of Gaiety, £19.49

Martin’s A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire Book, £31.90 Richard Osman’s The Bullet that Missed, £19.49 J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, £31.90 Below are a selection of books and their prices on Spotify.

Unlike music and podcasts, audiobooks aren’t free, even on Premium. Once you’ve purchased a book, you can rate it and view its cumulative score, too. While speed control can speed up or slow down the pace of the narration, in case you want to flip through a book quickly, or slow down the pace. There is also an automatic bookmarking feature that saves your place so you can pick up listening on the page where you left off. Here, you will see the Audiobooks tile, which you can select to browse titles in curated categories including “fantastic first audiobooks”, “What’s new”, “Mystery and Thrillers”, and “Personal Development”, among other genres and titles.Īs with songs, you can download audiobooks for offline listening when you don’t have access to wi-fi or mobile data. Open Spotify on your internet browser, sign in if you haven’t already, and select the search option in the sidebar on the left. How to find and buy audiobooks on Spotify We’ve detailed the steps you need to follow below, after which your purchased titles will appear in the mobile app. In fact, the only way to buy an audiobook is through the Spotify web player. Pressing play at this point will simply tell you that you can’t buy audiobooks in the app, which even Spotify admits is “not ideal”. Instead, upon selecting an audiobook, you’ll see a play icon with a lock next to it. Though you can browse audiobooks on the home page and by searching for them, you’ll notice that, when you select a title, there is no visible “buy” or “checkout” button. Unfortunately, purchasing and listening to audiobooks isn’t as simple as just tapping and buying them in the Spotify mobile app. Here’s how you can grab your next favourite novel or memoir on the music-streaming app.
