Spotify announced its new "narrated articles" feature in a press release on Tuesday. According to the company, users now have access to over 650 "long-form" magazine articles to listen to through the app. Spotify says the company's in-house team at Spotify Audiobooks is behind these audio productions, including articles from magazines like The Atlantic, Billboard, GQ, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and WIRED.
Articles are included in Premium—at the cost of your listening time
Spotify says all narrated articles are less than two hours long, which is important context, as they count towards Spotify Premium's 15-hour monthly listening time limit. That means if you're a Premium user and you tend to listen to audiobooks as part of your Spotify subscription, these articles will reduce the hours you have to listen to books. If an article takes an hour and a half to listen to, that counts the same as if you listened to 90 minutes of an audiobook. If you run out of time, you'll have to purchase "top-ups" to keep listening.
Other ways to listen to articles without giving money to Spotify
If you already pay for Spotify and you don't listen to many audiobooks through the service, this new feature might make sense for you—you can listen to quite a few articles within that 15-hour monthly time limit, and it's likely Spotify will only continue to add to its library as time goes on. However, if you use Spotify for free, $1.99 per article will add up quickly. As someone working in digital media, I'm all for supporting journalism, but unless you're using the feature to listen to an article only every now and then, you might end up paying as much as a full subscription to the site that published it would cost.
Using this method would free up those dollars, perhaps to be put toward subscribing to publications directly. Of course, there are ways you can get around a paywall to read many articles for free, but if you can, I encourage you to support digital media you find useful.
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