Bengaluru, Karnataka, 12th of November, 2026 : A thriller on the local train. A memoir on the morning walk. Philosophy before lights out. From today, Spotify brings audiobooks to India, putting your music, podcasts and books in one place.
India has always listened. Its epics travelled by voice, grandparents told stories at bedtime, and a new generation has made podcasts a daily habit. Audiobooks on Spotify are the next chapter. With Audiobooks+, listeners get 15 hours a month, with an option to top up or buy individual titles, across a vast catalogue of classics, blockbusters and new discoveries, moving with them alongside their music and podcasts.
Amarjit Singh Batra, GM South Asia, Middle East, Africa & MD India at Spotify, said, “Storytelling in India has always been as much about listening as reading. By bringing audiobooks to Spotify, we are making books as accessible as the music and podcasts our listeners already enjoy. Our focus is on helping listeners in India discover their next book, and helping Indian authors, including independent and self-published voices through Spotify for Authors, reach new audiences in India and around the world.”
The world is listening too. Spotify’s monthly audiobook listeners are up around 40% year on year, listening hours have grown more than 30%, and in the US, 18 to 34 year olds make up 57% of audiobook listeners on the platform. Spotify now carries more than 8,00,000 audiobooks from nearly 300 publishers and over 50,000 authors worldwide.
What listeners in India get
- A catalogue built for India: Choose from more than 3,50,000 English titles and almost 7,000 Indian-language audiobooks at launch, from global bestsellers to Indian voices. Audiences can delve into rich regional narratives across Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. The collection spans literary masterpieces such as Premchand’s Godaan, Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan, and Tagore’s Kabuliwala, along with celebrated works including Dharamvir Bharati’s Gunahon Ka Devta and Ami Ganatra’s Mahabharata Unravelled.
- Pricing that gives you freedom to explore: For ₹199 a month, Audiobooks+ gives you 15 hours of listening across the full catalogue, whether you’re on Free or Premium. How you spend those hours is entirely up to you: move between several books at once, sample a few chapters, explore an unfamiliar genre, or start a new title whenever inspiration strikes. Need more time? Top up your hours or buy individual titles outright. Start listening today with Audiobooks+, right in your Spotify app, or head to the hub to learn more.
- Discovery that knows your taste: Your next favourite book finds you the way your next favourite artist does, through personalised recommendations and audiobook charts shaped by what you love. Thrillers, mysteries, romance, self-help, fantasy, there’s a story for every mood.
- Page Match, so you never lose your place: Scan the ISBN of the book in your hands and Spotify picks up the audiobook from the exact page, so the story keeps going when you have to get going. More than one million people have used Page Match globally since February.
- Listen offline: Download audiobooks and listen without a connection, just like your music and podcasts.
- Set a Sleep Timer: Drift off to a story, and it’ll stop playing when you do.
Spotify for Authors comes to India
With this launch, Spotify for Authors is available to writers in India. Self-published and independent authors can distribute their audiobooks on Spotify, view insights on their listeners worldwide, and access marketing tools including redemption codes. Partnerships are non-exclusive, and authors retain the freedom to distribute their work on other platforms.
- Update to the latest version of the Spotify app and open the Audiobooks hub, or search for any title
- Choose a book and add Audiobooks+
- Manage your plan at [spotify.com/account or at http://spotify.com/audiobooks]
- Press play
About Spotify
Spotify’s platform revolutionized music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Today, more listeners than ever can discover, manage and enjoy over 100 million tracks, 7 million podcast titles, and 700,000 audiobooks in select markets on Spotify. We are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with 777 million users, including 300 million subscribers across 184 markets.
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