If I am paying $10 per month to have Spotify Premium, then I should be allowed to listen to audiobooks for no extra cost. I’ve seen audiobooks go as high as $70 on the new audiobook platform. This was, of course, back when Spotify allowed people to purchace audiobooks on the app. But seriously, $70 for an audiobook??? I can get a physical copy of that book for *maybe* $20 if not slightly more or slightly less. I can get an audiobook on CD for anywhere between $13-$18. And I can get an eBook for maybe even less than that. You have services like Audible that will charge $10 a month to listen to any audiobook you want. I mean, with a competitor like Audible, I can get behind Spotify making audiobooks a completely separate service; like they could make a separate app called Spotify Books (or Spotify Audiobooks) and charge $10 a month for that. That way, they could be making equal revenue with Spotify for music/podcasts and Spotify Books for audiobooks. But to pay for the entire book despite already paying $10 a month for ad-free music is completely asinine.
[NOTE: This post was written on Monday, November 28th, 2022 at 4:07PM PST. If anyone at Spotify reads this post and goes along with the idea, I would at the very least like credit. My email is the same thing as my username but with @gmail.com added at the end of it. We can talk business there.]
