Spotify Launches Page Match and Physical Book Sales

1. Spotify Partners With Bookshop.org and Debuts Page Match Feature to Bridge Physical, E-book, and Audio Formats
<p>Since bringing audiobooks to Spotify in 2022, we’ve helped listeners discover thousands of new favorite titles and authors while driving growth in the publishing industry. Today, we’re turning the page with two new updates that will give book lovers an even more personalized and flexible way to enjoy stories on Spotify. First, we’re announcing a... </p>
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2. How to Use Page Match to Seamlessly Switch Between a Book and Its Audiobook on Spotify
<p>Today, Spotify announced two new updates to give book lovers a more personalized and flexible way to enjoy stories: the ability to purchase physical books via a partnership with Bookshop.org and our new Page Match feature. Here, we’re diving deeper into how you can use Page Match to bridge physical and audio reading. This first-of-its-kind... </p>
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3. Spotify will now sell you books
<p>Music app also launches new feature to let people switch between physical and audiobooks</p>

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4. Spotify ventures into physical book sales, adds new audiobook features
Spotify users in the U.S. and the UK will soon be able to buy physical books in the app. There's also a new tool that syncs physical books to audiobooks.

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5. Spotify's Page Match Lets You Swap Between a Book and the Audiobook
The text-scanning feature can be used with any English-language audiobook available from Spotify.

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6. Spotify is about to start selling physical books for some reason
<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2026/02/Spotify-is-about-to-start-selling-physical-books-for-some-reason.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p><a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/spotify/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Spotify</a> is about to allow premium subscribers in the US and UK to buy physical books through the app, in a move the company expects to drive revenue for both itself and indie bookstores.</p>



<p>It’s an expansion of the company’s partnership with bookshop.org on audiobooks, but it’s hard to see how the move makes any kind of sense … </p>



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7. Spotify comes up with a clever way to sync audio and print books ↦
<p>The Verge’s Terrence O’Brien details Spotify’s solution for helping you jump between audio and print books:</p>
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  Point your camera at a page, and the Spotify app uses computer vision to match text with audio.</p></blockquote>…

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8. Spotify expands book strategy with Page Match and physical sales
Spotify is extending its audiobook strategy by linking audio, digital and physical books to keep listeners and readers engaged for longer across formats.

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9. Spotify’s ‘Page Match’ feature plays audiobooks where you left off reading
<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5google.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/02/Spotify-Page-Match-1.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1000" /></div><p>Just in case you own the book <em>and </em>subscribe to Spotify Premium, the music streaming giant is adding a feature called “Page Match.” It’s essentially Google Lens for finding your place in the audiobook using a picture of your actual book.</p>



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10. Spotify Plans To Sell Physical Books
Spotify is planning to let premium subscribers in the U.S. and U.K. buy hardcovers and paperbacks directly through its app starting this spring, partnering with Bookshop.org to handle pricing, inventory and fulfillment. 

The Swedish streaming company, which entered the audiobook market in 2022, will also introduce a feature called Page Match that lets users scan a page from a physical book or e-reader and jump to the exact spot in the audiobook edition. Spotify will earn an undisclosed affiliate fee on each purchase.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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