ISLAMABAD (The Thursday Times) — Spotify has launched audiobooks in Pakistan, selling 15 hours of listening a month through a paid add-on called Audiobooks+, available since Wednesday.
Spotify’s Pakistan website lists Audiobooks+ at Rs379 a month after a free first month for new subscribers, charged on top of a Premium plan. Launch details circulated in Pakistan instead give Rs489 a month, so check the price in the app before you pay.
What you can do depends on your plan, according to the site. Premium Individual users can buy the add-on. Free users can add it too, or buy single books. Premium Student does not include listening hours, but students can buy single books. On Family and Duo plans, members have to ask the plan manager for it, and hours are not shared between accounts. Samples are free.
Unused hours do not roll over; they expire each month. You can cancel Audiobooks+ without leaving Premium, but cancelling Premium also ends the add-on. If you run out, you can buy a one-off top-up, and the launch details put 10 extra hours at Rs579.
The launch details promise more than 100,000 English titles and mention no Urdu books. Books can be downloaded for offline listening, and a feature called Page Match lets you switch between a printed or digital copy and the audio version.
Pakistan is part of a rollout Spotify announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 7, which is due to take audiobooks to more than 180 markets by the end of 2026.
