Spotify adds in-app real book purchases and a new tool to sync progress with audiobooks

Spotify announced new audiobook updates, including Page Match for syncing your place across physical books or eBooks and their audiobook versions, and a partnership with Bookshop.org that will let users buy paper books through the Spotify app. Using Spotify on iOS or Android, users can find the title they are reading, tap the Page Match button, scan a page, and continue listening from that point. Spotify calls it an industry first feature, launching later this month with initial support for English titles and plans to cover most titles by the end of February.

Spotify is also introducing eligibility rules for Page Match. Free users can use it only for audiobooks they purchased through Spotify, while Premium and Audiobook+ subscribers can use it for books covered by their monthly audiobook hours. This new feature follows Spotify’s Audiobook Recaps feature from Nov. 2025, which offers short audio summaries of the story so far.

For physical books, Spotify’s Bookshop.org integration is expected later this Spring in the United States and United Kingdom. Users will see an option to buy a paper copy from within Spotify, then get redirected to Bookshop.org to complete checkout, with Bookshop handling fulfillment through its indie bookstore network. Spotify frames this as a way to turn audiobook discovery into physical ownership, with Spotify earning an affiliate fee on purchases.