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YouTube May Add a Very Long Listen
· New York time
YouTube is in active discussions with publishers about an audiobook library planned for 2027, The Wall Street Journal reported, according to Tubefilter. YouTube has not confirmed the report. The offering could be tied to Premium, whose price for new customers is $15.99 a month. The reported plan would extend YouTube’s listening ambitions beyond music and podcasts into books, potentially placing another kind of long-form work inside a familiar subscription environment. For authors and audio creators, the interesting prospect is discovery inside a platform already accustomed to introducing people to their next obsession. The platform’s recommendation machinery might locate a page-turner; chapter seventeen would still face the ancient competitive threat of someone remembering they need to do laundry.
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