Spotify launches physical book sales in the US and UK via Bookshop.org partnership

Spotify has launched physical book sales in the US and UK through an affiliate partnership with Bookshop.org, letting users buy print copies via a button on audiobook pages in the app. Spotify earns a 10% affiliate fee, with a portion supporting independent bookstores. The rollout accompanies several other audiobook features: Page Match (now supporting 30+ languages) lets users scan a physical book page to sync with the audiobook; Audiobook Charts have expanded to Germany; and AI-generated Audiobook Recaps are now live on both platforms. Audiobooks are now engaged with by 25% of Spotify's 290 million Premium subscribers, and the company frames physical book sales as a strategic move to capture the full lifecycle of a reader's relationship with a title rather than ceding that intent to Amazon.