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We looked at behavior from employee tests, as well as how people in other countries consume audiobooks.

There just happens to be a history of that.

Spotify�s web viewer showing its audiobooks page

So we had some data there … we’ve been looking at what data is available to understand usage.

Your regular 15 hours won’t roll over to next month if you don’t use them, though.

Much likeNetflixorPrime Video, there will be some rotation in and out.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on stage, in front of graphics introducing new audiobooks features

“Some of that’s by necessity,” explains Kaefer.

But we expect that there’s going to be a lot of stability in the catalog overall."

And we’ll learn and we’ll evolve as we always do," says Kaefer.

At the announcement event, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said that more countries will follow, too.

It seems as though Spotify wants to keep growing by making itself more attractive to people outside of music.

This seems great, a lot of Spotify users in the TechRadar office are really pleased about this change.

But it doesn’t help those who’ve been holding their breath for hi-res audio.

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