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Telecommunications & Media

Spotify starts selling physical books, steps up audiobook features

Spotify is strengthening its audiobook features and expanding into physical book sales, TechCrunch reported on Feb. 4. Users in the United States and Britain can buy printed books through the Spotify app. The service works with Bookshop.org in a model designed to support independent bookstores. Spotify is also adding tools that match scanned pages to audiobook positions and provide listening summaries for Android users.

AI & Enterprise

Spotify tests feature to sync print books and audiobooks, launch uncertain

Spotify is developing a feature that automatically links audiobooks with printed books, The Verge reported on Jan. 20. Code in Spotify app version 9.1.18.282 showed a “Page Match” tool that scans a page with a camera and uses optical character recognition to find the corresponding audiobook timestamp. Users would need to unlock or buy the audiobook and separately own the print or e-book. Spotify has not announced the feature and its release is not confirmed, the report said.