Spotify Strikes Exclusive Audiobook Deal with Crooked Lane Books

Spotify and Crooked Lane Books announce an exclusive audiobook deal, making top fiction titles widely available on Spotify and beyond in 2025.

on Feb 13, 2025

Our aim is to bring great audiobooks to as many people as possible, and we’re glad to give book fans more options as they discover their next great listens. Spotify Audiobooks—our in-house audiobook publishing imprint—has entered into an exclusive audiobook publishing partnership with Crooked Lane Books/Alcove Press, a leading publisher spanning commercial fiction genres and select nonfiction.

As part of the agreement, Spotify Audiobooks will release Crooked Lane and Alcove's frontlist titles starting March 2025. The books will be made widely available on Spotify through Spotify's Audiobooks in Premium service and for purchase à la carte, in addition to being sold through over 30 other digital retail and library channels.

"Crooked Lane is over the moon. Spotify's status as both publisher and distributor of audiobooks combined with their forward-thinking method make them the perfect partner," stated Matthew Martz, Crooked Lane and Alcove publisher. "With more than hundreds of millions of paid subscribers, we feel confident that Spotify will introduce our books to new readers. Spotify has done excellent work with our books, and we know our authors are in the best of hands."

Spotify Audiobooks and Crooked Lane have partnered previously on multiple audio titles, including The Darkest Night edited by Lindy Ryan, I’ve Got My Mind Set on Brew by Stephanie Jayne, and A Dream in the Dark by Robert Justice.

We can't wait to start 2025 with so significant a partnership," Henna Silvennoinen, Spotify's Associate Manager of Audiobooks, mentioned. "We've long been fans of Crooked Lane's backlist. Their commercially successful stories will engage readers on Spotify and elsewhere, and it's only the start. We think partnering will take Crooked Lane and Spotify's publishing to an entirely new level.