Other services have worked around Apple’s rules in different ways. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, whose company filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with the European Commission nearly four years ago, cited this problem as yet another way that Apple is “doing serious harm to the internet economy” and “choking competition,” he wrote in a blog post about the audiobook service’s challenges. Instead, when a user taps “play” on the audiobook they’re interested in, a message appears that explains: “You can’t buy audiobooks in the app. What’s more, Spotify isn’t linking to its website from its mobile app. That means users have to first visit Spotify’s website to purchase the book, pay Spotify directly, then return to the app to actually access the title. The company doesn’t want to make the titles available through in-app purchases, where it would have to pay Apple or Google a commission on its sales. However, the implementation of audiobooks in the Spotify app leaves much to be desired from the consumer’s perspective. Similar to other audiobook apps, Spotify offers a standard set of features, including the ability to download titles for offline listening, rate titles, adjust the playback speed and listen across devices.
do (300,000+) but declined to share any metrics related to how many Spotify users have taken advantage of the option to buy audiobooks following the service’s launch. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that consumers in the newly added markets will also have access to the same number of titles as those in the U.S. Spotify brings audiobooks to US users with a catalog of 300,000 titles to start
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