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Spotify\u2019s latest update on the App Store in the United States brings the ability to purchase audiobooks and top up your listening hours without leaving the app.<\/p>\n

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Purchasing additional listening hours. Image: Spotify<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSpotify users in the United States can now see pricing, buy individual audiobooks and purchase additional Top Up hours for audiobook listening beyond the fifteen hours included in Premium each month,\u201d reads Spotify\u2019s press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This change is only available in the version of the Spotify app offered on the US App Store. You must have the most recent version of the app to take advantage of audiobook purchasing. To get the latest version, hit \u201cUpdate\u201d on Spotify\u2019s App Store page<\/a>. If you don\u2019t see this option, your copy of Spotify is up to date.<\/p>\n

Spotify for iPhone now lets you purchase audiobooks<\/h2>\n

Spotify removed audiobooks from its iPhone and iPad app back in 2022 after Apple rejected its submission three times. The iPhone maker leveraged its controversial anti-steering rule to stop Spotify from including a link to external purchase options in its email blast that informed customers they needed to buy audiobooks on its website in order to listen to them in the app.<\/p>\n

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Checkout in the Spotify app. Image: Spotify<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Apple recently approved a Spotify update<\/a> which brought clear subscription pricing information and links leading to external subscription options on Spotify\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

Both web purchase links and an in-app web view for buying audiobooks are only available in Spotify\u2019s mobile app in the United States and the European Union.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the app continues to suffer from Apple\u2019s anti-steering rules because the court ruling in Epic Games v. Apple only affects the US App Store. Apple has already updated its rules to allow links to external payments in US App Store apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Developers like Patreon, Amazon Kindle<\/a> and others have taken advantage of the ruling to add links to web subscriptions and bypass Apple\u2019s In-App Purchase fees.<\/p>\n

The ruling prevents Apple from charging its 15-30 percent commission fee<\/a> on purchases made outside the App Store and resorting to tactics such as scare screens to dissuade people from purchasing digital goods and services on the web.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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