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Spotify’s Audiobooks will get their own ‘Countdown Pages’ to tease upcoming new releases

Spotify is enhancing its audiobooks streaming service with a feature that may be familiar to the app's music consumers: Countdown Pages. These

Plus, when users visit the Countdown Page to save a title, they’ll be able to tap on a “More Like This” tab to see similar, but already released, books that they can listen to immediately. Ahead of its expansion to audiobooks, Countdown Pages had been used by artists like Taylor Swift, Karol G, Florence and the Machine, Paramore, and the Jonas Brothers — the latter who introduced the feature at last year’s Spotify’s press event. With the addition of the new Countdown Pages feature, Spotify hopes to grow the service’s adoption further by tapping into its larger global user base of over 600 million listeners.

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