Creating original serialized content—like Amazon Prime and Netflix have done in video—is one key to success for audiobook subscription services, says Storytel España’s report.

1,500 Audiobooks in Spanish, 35,000 in English. n an extensive report, the Spanish branch of Stockholm-based audiobook subscription service Storytel España argues that original serialized stories are a promising content strategy for the Spanish market. “The radical change in consumer trends and developments in technology have improved accessibility to this format in conjunction with the revival of traditional narrative forms, transformed by new distribution systems,” according to the report. 

Storytel is still new to Spain. It launched its service there in October with its customary offer of unlimited listens to audiobooks for a €12.99 monthly fee (US$15.22), currently with a special discount price offered of €9.99 on its attractive site.

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