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Spotify Increasing Audiobooks Plans in Most Complicated Manner Potential
Look, getting 15 hours of audiobook listening as a part of an everyday Spotify subscription has been nice. I take advantage of it each month, largely to experiment with stuff that I then go borrow or purchase elsewhere. It’s not fairly so simple as “1 audiobook” per thirty days, however manageable. How Spotify is increasing past this base providing is just a little bananas, although. In some nations (not the US for now), Spotify is including a few tiers Audiobooks+ and Audiobooks+ for Plan Members. Right here is how they clarify what these plans are:
Audiobooks+: Out there to Premium Particular person subscribers in addition to Household and Duo plan managers, this add-on unlocks an extra 15 hours of listening every month for the present base plan—a terrific choice for booklovers in search of extra audiobook time, together with followers of longer titles.
Audiobooks+ for Plan Members: For the primary time, extra members on Premium Household and Duo can entry 15 hours of month-to-month audiobook listening by means of this recurring add-on. Plan members simply must request audiobook entry from their plan supervisor, who can buy the add-on on their behalf. They’ll additionally buy a one-time 10-hour top-up in the event that they run out of hours earlier than their month-to-month billing cycle refreshes.
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First one is sensible. 15 extra hours for some (unspoken sum of money).
The second? I feel when you have the phrase “Plan members just need to request audiobook access from their plan manager, who can purchase the add-on on their behalf” in your product description. You’ll be able to’t simply say “just.” It truly needs to be the factor.
Publishers Weekly Releases Fall 2025 Grownup Guide Preview
There are a number of web items I get to unwrap in the course of the 12 months, and one in every of them is the Fall Books Preview from PW. Throughout a number of genres and writer sizes, it’s merely essentially the most environment friendly technique to get a way of what publishing’s largest season has to supply. New books from Patricia Lockwood, Salman Rushdie, Dan Brown, Zadie Smith and different heavy hitters, plus titles I wouldn’t discover alone, whilst somebody with an Edelweiss workflow.
The New York Public Library’s Summer time Studying For Adults
Within the starter pack for at this time’s bookish adults is a keenness for pizza-related summer time studying challenges for teenagers. Of late, some organizations have additionally rolled out fairly concerned summer time studying challenges for adults. I haven’t seen something fairly as profitable as what the NYPL (partnered with The Nationwide Guide Award) is providing to 1 winner who submits a accomplished challange card:
Full all of the actions to enter the drawing for the grand prize: airfare, lodge, and two tickets to the 76th Nationwide Guide Awards Ceremony in NYC on Wednesday, November 19, 2025! Winners shall be notified in September. For any prize-related questions, go to the Nationwide Guide Basis web site.
That’s the equal of fairly a number of private pan pizzas.
Immediately on The Guide Riot Podcast, Jeff and Rebecca discuss a bunch of mid-year lists: best-ofs, best-selllers, and extra. Then Erica Ezeifedi talks to Rodney Freeman, former librarian and producer of the documentary Are You a Librarian, in regards to the wealthy & neglected historical past of Black librarianship within the US.
