Spotify is adding the option to purchase books through its app. Starting this spring, thanks to a newly announced partnership with Bookshop.org, Spotify subscribers will be able to get physical books, sourced from independent book stores, shipped to their doors. The partnership ties into Spotify’s new Page Match feature, which lets you scan the book you’re reading with your phone’s camera to skip straight to that part of the audiobook (assuming it’s in Spotify’s library).
That’s all pretty cool, and people who listen to a lot of audiobooks on Spotify might get a lot out of it. But as a subscriber who uses Spotify almost entirely as a music-streaming app, I can’t say I’m excited about yet more stuff in the app’s already crowded interface. The announcement coming alongside the platform’s third price hike in as many years doesn’t help, either.
