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Spotify announced a new partnership that will add more than 1,000 new audiobooks to its library.
The Swedish streaming platform is partnering with Bloomsbury, one of the largest publishers in the United Kingdom, to bring titles such as Want, the recent number-one bestselling title collected by Gillian Anderson.
Duncan Bruce, Spotify's director of audiobook partnerships and licensing, announced the partnership on the one-year anniversary of adding audiobooks to Premium. The catalog is expanded with
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