Wall Street Journal ·

YouTube has held talks with publishers in recent months about an audiobook feature that could be ready next year and may be bundled in YouTube Premium

The Alphabet-owned streamer is working on a feature for audiobooks, a bid to compete with offerings from Spotify and Audible

In this story YouTube YouTube Premium

YouTube has held talks with publishers in recent months about an audiobook feature that could be ready next year and may be bundled in YouTube Premium

Lead Source

Wall Street Journal — YouTube has held talks with publishers in recent months about an audiobook feature that could be ready next year and may be bundled in YouTube Premium ↗

How this story grew

Coverage · 0 Discussion · 0

Oct 15Oct 16

Related stories

Wall Street Journal: Apple is discussing multiyear content deals with publishers to deliver current news and information for Siri AI, with a potential nine-figure budget

TechCrunch: Spotify expands audiobooks to 180+ markets, bringing its catalog to 750M+ users, and adds 350K+ titles in 120+ languages in partnership with 300+ publishers

TechCrunch: YouTube Music rolls out labels for songs created with the help of AI; Spotify has AI labels, and Apple Music plans to add "Made With AI" labels later this year

ZDNET: Amazon rebrands its Kindle Unlimited subscription as Kindle+ and expands access to audiobooks, including titles narrated by AI

Bloomberg: YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently

Discuss with AI

ChatGPT ↗ Claude ↗

← Back to TechSnif