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Audible is rolling out a cheaper \u201cStandard\u201d subscription plan that costs $8.99 per month, the Amazon-owned company announced<\/a> on Tuesday. The new plan is $6 cheaper than the platform\u2019s existing \u201cPremium\u201d plan, which costs $14.95 per month. <\/p>\n The Standard plan includes one audiobook per month from Audible\u2019s catalog and unlimited listening from a curated library that includes a selection of Audible Originals. <\/p>\n Under the new Standard plan, subscribers will lose access to the audiobooks they\u2019ve consumed when they unsubscribe. The Premium plan lets users keep the audiobooks they\u2019ve listened to even if they unsubscribe.<\/p>\n The Standard plan also includes access to nearly 200 of the most popular titles available on the Wondery+<\/a> app, which is shutting down<\/a> in the coming months.<\/p>\n The Standard plan is launching in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, and France. Audible is testing the plan in additional markets, the company says.<\/p>\n The launch of the new subscription plans comes as Audible is facing growing competition from Spotify, which launched audiobooks in 2022 and has bundled the format with music and podcasts as part of its own Premium subscription.<\/p>\n Spotify said last October that the number of users listening to audiobooks rose 36%<\/a> over the past year, and listening hours increased 37%. Additionally, it noted that more than half of Spotify\u2019s 281 million premium subscribers have engaged with an audiobook.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco, CA<\/span>
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