Spotify users in Pakistan can now add audiobooks to their account. Spotify’s Pakistan page offers an add-on called Audiobooks+ that gives 15 hours of listening a month for Rs. 379, and new subscribers get the first month free.
The add-on sits on top of an existing plan rather than replacing it. Premium Individual already costs Rs. 379 a month in Pakistan, so a Premium user who adds audiobooks pays that amount twice. Cancelling the add-on leaves the Premium plan alone, but cancelling Premium also removes any add-ons.
Spotify’s audiobooks page for Pakistan spells out who gets what. A Premium Individual user buys Audiobooks+ and receives the 15 hours; on a Duo or Family plan, the hours belong to the person who manages the plan and are not shared with members, who can ask the manager for the add-on. Premium Student does not include audiobook hours at all. People on the free, ad-supported plan can add Audiobooks+ as well.
Hours reset on each billing date and unused ones expire, so nothing carries over to the next month. Listeners who use up their hours can pay once for extra time, or skip the subscription and pay for single titles. Samples of any audiobook can be played for free.
The rollout is part of a larger expansion. At the Frankfurt Book Fair on 7 October, Spotify announced that audiobooks will grow from 22 markets to more than 180 by the end of 2026, with Pakistan named on the list. New markets get a catalogue of more than 350,000 titles in over 120 languages. Spotify said Audiobooks+ is the main way in for markets across Asia, and the Pakistan page sells listening time only through that add-on. In markets such as Italy and Spain, Spotify says eligible Premium subscribers will instead get 12 hours a month included in their plan.
Spotify says pricing and access vary by market, so the Rs. 379 figure applies only to the Pakistan page. The page does not say how many titles are in Urdu or other local languages, and the company has not given a Pakistan-specific catalogue size.
Audiobooks+ is already a business for Spotify elsewhere. The company said it has passed one million subscribers since launching a little over a year ago, worth more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue, and that the number of people listening to audiobooks each month rose by close to 40% in a year. Owen Smith, Spotify’s VP of Audiobooks, said that bringing audiobooks to 180 markets means “millions more people can discover” them.
Another feature in the announcement, Page Match, lets readers move between a print book, an e-book and the audiobook without losing their place. Spotify says over a million people have tried it since February, that it works in over 30 languages, and that it now supports page numbers: the user scans the ISBN barcode of the book and enters the page. The announcement does not say whether Page Match is switched on for Pakistan.
The free month applies to new Audiobooks+ subscribers only, after which Rs. 379 is billed monthly. A Premium user can start the trial from the audiobooks page in the Spotify app or on the web.
