The streaming service has a catalogue of more than 300,000 audiobook titles, which users will have to purchase on an individual basis if they want to listen to them, even if they have a paid-for version of Spotify. Spiracle officially launches on 6 October, and is not the only new player in the area last month Spotify also began offering audiobooks to customers in the US. She said she hoped the company would succeed because of “people’s desire to have independent platforms”. People can also buy titles on a one-off basis.īland said the company operated on the “basis that there are book-lovers who want to go and buy their audiobooks and be part of a literary atmosphere that just is about the pleasure and the life and world that you can have within books”.

Spiracle produces a number of audiobooks itself in partnership with independent publishers, and operates on a subscription model, with users paying a monthly or annual fee for access.

Director Kate Bland said that the aim was not to offer “every single book that’s ever been made into an audio, but we are selecting what we hope is a really wonderful array of international books and translations”.

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