Is YouTube Getting Into Audiobooks? Report Points to Possible 2027 Launch as Part of Premium

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With an eye on challenging Spotify and Amazon’s Audible, YouTube is reportedly preparing to add audiobooks to its Premium subscription offering.
That possible audiobooks expansion surfaced in a Wall Street Journal report, though at the time of this writing, Google/Alphabet hadn’t commented publicly on the rumored buildout.
But per the outlet, the tech giant’s been engaged in talks with (book) publishers in recent months ahead of a possible