Last week Spotify gave its premium subscribers in the UK and Australia access to up to 15 hours of audiobook content per month at no additional cost. Agents are optimistic that Spotify’s streaming deals with major publishers will help amplify authors and provide healthy competition to Amazon-owned Audible, but several have voiced concerns about how it may affect author income due to the lack of detail about the deals struck.
Source: Agents concerned about ‘lack of detail’ on Spotify streaming deals