Audible is all about audiobooks and Spotify has them, too, but Amazon’s take on a music service is about to get a few good reads, as well.
Music may well be one of the biggest uses of services on your phone, but listening to media doesn’t have to be just music. There are podcasts and radio, and there are also books you can read and listen to, as well.
There are services made just for reading — such as with Kindle — and services made for listening to books — such as Audible — and there are even music services that blend both together, which is something Spotify covers.
But it seems if you have Amazon’s equivalent to Spotify, you’re about to get some audiobooks thrown in for good measure.
As part of Amazon Music Unlimited, subscribers in Australia, New Zealand, and also France will gain the ability to listen to one audiobook per month from the Audible library of over 850,000 titles on the service.
It’s an addition that basically extends the Amazon-owned Audible service to Amazon’s music service, as well, providing a single audiobook each month as part of Music Unlimited’s $12.99 per month price in Australia. Later on, some audiobooks will even include some produced in Dolby Atmos, providing surround sound drama provided you have a pair of earphones that support spatial on your device.
The addition of audiobooks is live on Amazon Music Unlimited locally.
