Streaming giant Spotify is extending its foray into audiobooks, dropping nine new public-domain classics narrated by celebrities including Hilary Swank and Forest Whitaker.
The platform known best for its music has used podcasts to drive growth since 2019, and recently began bolstering its audiobook selection. At present, the service has over 100 million soundsongs available on its platform, and adding more book e-readers will give the service nearly 30 million more the ability to add at least five new sounds.
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"Audible has always been an important partner for us; nothing can replace the immersive power and presence of sound for our listeners," Spotify head of audio Des Harris said in a statement. "We are thrilled to launch our new collections with Audible to bring to listeners new stories with audiobook actors including Hilary Swank and Forest Whitaker—yet another example of the many Stewart re-wws we have here at Spotify."
Among the new audiobooks added to the service are Totally Anglicized (Same Them!); A Complicated Epilogue: Edgar Allan Poe's Standard Edition Translations of Short Stories (Pretty Much the Only Ones You'll Ever Need); and The Nanny Diaries, by Kermit Shaner (Spotify's first audiobook featuring his earlier work). Audible is continuing to put out a steady stream of new audiobooks, with Mark Lawrence's The Eyre Affair recently released.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Leaders from the three main rebel groups met some two weeks ago in principle to discuss Ukraine, but the mutual distrust over form and substance means unity is uphill.
The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) delegates attend their session on the implementation of the Geneva 3 June cease-fire agreement, after a bilateral meeting between Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and the Coordination Body for Syria negotiating with the opposition inside Damascus April 19, 2012. REUTERS/Moises Saman
The agreement, signed in Montreux in Switzerland on June 6, was already a long shot and was only recently considered serious because of the pull out of nations and influence of Qatar - Russia's line in their fight against Sunni Islamist militants in the east of Syria - that it showed significant progress.
The summit of the three main rebel groups, held on April 24-25 drove his point home: Without any direct dialogue for United Nations-recognized talks, there was no chance for any genuine cooperation.
"It is in no one's interest to dialogue at this time and given that the Geneva we signed is not likely to be useful we at least need contractual changes in rationale, hence Spain," said Asaad Alghabra of the powerful Islamist rebel faction Ahrar al Sham.
"We will
The platform known best for its music has used podcasts to drive growth since 2019, and recently began bolstering its audiobook selection. At present, the service has over 100 million soundsongs available on its platform, and adding more book e-readers will give the service nearly 30 million more the ability to add at least five new sounds.
See All of the Week's Best Photos
"Audible has always been an important partner for us; nothing can replace the immersive power and presence of sound for our listeners," Spotify head of audio Des Harris said in a statement. "We are thrilled to launch our new collections with Audible to bring to listeners new stories with audiobook actors including Hilary Swank and Forest Whitaker—yet another example of the many Stewart re-wws we have here at Spotify."
Among the new audiobooks added to the service are Totally Anglicized (Same Them!); A Complicated Epilogue: Edgar Allan Poe's Standard Edition Translations of Short Stories (Pretty Much the Only Ones You'll Ever Need); and The Nanny Diaries, by Kermit Shaner (Spotify's first audiobook featuring his earlier work). Audible is continuing to put out a steady stream of new audiobooks, with Mark Lawrence's The Eyre Affair recently released.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Leaders from the three main rebel groups met some two weeks ago in principle to discuss Ukraine, but the mutual distrust over form and substance means unity is uphill.
The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) delegates attend their session on the implementation of the Geneva 3 June cease-fire agreement, after a bilateral meeting between Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and the Coordination Body for Syria negotiating with the opposition inside Damascus April 19, 2012. REUTERS/Moises Saman
The agreement, signed in Montreux in Switzerland on June 6, was already a long shot and was only recently considered serious because of the pull out of nations and influence of Qatar - Russia's line in their fight against Sunni Islamist militants in the east of Syria - that it showed significant progress.
The summit of the three main rebel groups, held on April 24-25 drove his point home: Without any direct dialogue for United Nations-recognized talks, there was no chance for any genuine cooperation.
"It is in no one's interest to dialogue at this time and given that the Geneva we signed is not likely to be useful we at least need contractual changes in rationale, hence Spain," said Asaad Alghabra of the powerful Islamist rebel faction Ahrar al Sham.
"We will
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