{"id":1041667,"date":"2026-10-08T08:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041667"},"modified":"2026-10-08T08:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:00:25","slug":"spotify-to-bring-audiobooks-to-india-in-november-four-years-after-us-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/08\/spotify-to-bring-audiobooks-to-india-in-november-four-years-after-us-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify to bring audiobooks to India in November, four years after US launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify will launch its audiobook service in India on November 12, 2026, more than four years after the streaming platform first introduced audiobooks in the US, as it expands the offering to more than 180 markets globally. <\/p>\n<p>Indian users will access the service primarily through an Audiobooks+ add-on for Premium plans. <\/p>\n<p>Spotify first launched audiobooks in the US in September, 2022, with more than 300,000 titles available at the time. The service subsequently expanded to markets including the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, but India was not among the 22 markets where Spotify&#8217;s audiobook service was available before Wednesday&#8217;s global expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify will launch its audiobook service in India on November 12, 2026, more than four years after the streaming platform first introduced audiobooks in the US, as it expands the offering to more than 180 markets globally. Indian users will access the service primarily through an Audiobooks+ add-on for Premium plans. Spotify first launched audiobooks in the US in September, 2022, with more than 300,000 titles available at the time. The service subsequently expanded to markets including the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, but India was not among the 22 markets where Spotify&#8217;s audiobook service was available before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041694,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041667\/revisions\/1041694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}