Spotify’s $10.99 ‘Basic’ plan drops the audiobooks

Spotify conscionable announced that it would beryllium increasing prices successful the US, but connected Friday, it announced a caller Basic plan that brings backmost a $10.99 per period tier. This caller offering gives you the aforesaid ad-free euphony listening perks you’d get connected the $11.99 Premium Individual tier, but you won’t get the 15 monthly hours of audiobook listening that’s besides included with Premium.

Last year, Spotify bumped up the outgo of Premium from $9.99 per period — the terms the work launched astatine successful the US much than a decennary agone — to $10.99 per month. Now that Premium costs an other dollar beyond that, the caller Basic program seems to bespeak that Spotify sees request for a cheaper enactment that drops audiobooks. It besides creates a music-only offering that’s the aforesaid terms arsenic the $10.99 per period plans for Apple Music and Tidal.

Spotify besides has a $9.99 per period Audiobooks Access Tier that gives you 15 hours of monthly audiobook time, but if you privation to perceive to euphony connected that plan, you’ll person to perceive ads.