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That brings our total number of Spotify audio books to over 1,000. Like any experiment, it is all a matter of listeners checking out the new audio material and wanting more.We’ve just added over 500 new audio books from Spotify into our Free Audio & Video Directory. It looks like Spotify might be getting serious about audiobooks, they went on a hiring spree last summer to fill a bunch of roles in this division. The chapters, which came out weekly, featured celebrities like Daniel Radcliffe, Dakota Fanning, Claudia Kim, and David Beckham. Rowling’s Wizarding World to release Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in audio form. The other titles that Spotify is releasing as part of the collection are Jean Toomer’s Cane, narrated by Audra McDonald Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, narrated by James Langton Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, narrated by Sarah Coombs Nella Larsen’s Passing, narrated by Bahni Turpin and Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage, narrated by Santino Fontana.Īlthough this is Spotify’s biggest effort in audiobooks to date, it’s not its first attempt.

All of the audiobooks are available for free and paid members. All of the content are apart of the public domain and include titles such as David Dobrik narrating Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Forest Whitaker reading Frederick Douglass’ memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and Hilary Swank narrating Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, among others.

The new section is available now and is called Audiobooks: Hear the Classics. Spotify is going beyond music and experimenting with hosting digital audiobooks.