Spotify for Authors
Spotify for Authors is Spotify's free, non-exclusive audiobook publishing portal for self-published authors that puts audiobooks on Spotify and can pass them to Voices by INaudio.
At a glance
- Price
- Free (Free to upload. 50% of suggested retail price on a la carte sales; Premium listening paid from a shared pool with no published rate.)
- Platforms
- Web
- Outputs KDP-ready files
- Not stated
- Touches your KDP account
- No
- Categories
- Audiobooks
- Last checked
- 2026-11-09
Summary
Spotify for Authors lets self-published authors upload audiobooks directly to Spotify, non-exclusively; Findaway Voices' wide distribution is now Voices by INaudio (findawayvoices.com redirects there), which you can opt into from the same dashboard. Royalties are 50% of your suggested retail price on a la carte sales plus a pro-rata share of a Premium listening pool. It accepts AI-narrated audiobooks for Spotify only, including from its free ElevenLabs-based creation tools. An ACX audiobook enrolled in KDP Select needs exclusive Audible rights, so it cannot also be distributed here.
Best for
- Getting an existing or AI-narrated audiobook onto Spotify
Pros
- Non-exclusive, and you set the a la carte price
- Free AI audiobook creation for up to 5 books (US, English)
Cons
- Premium pool rate is not published
- Reaches Spotify only unless you also send the book to Voices by INaudio
Alternatives
- Author's Republic: Author's Republic is a free, non-exclusive audiobook distributor for indie authors that sends finished audiobooks to retail, library and streaming channels for 20% of royalties.
- ElevenLabs: ElevenLabs is an AI voice platform for creators and publishers that turns an EPUB manuscript into an AI-narrated audiobook and can publish it to ElevenReader.
- Kobo Writing Life: Kobo Writing Life is Rakuten Kobo's free self-publishing platform for ebooks and audiobooks that sells direct to the Kobo store, Kobo Plus and OverDrive libraries.
Sources
Facts on this page come from the vendor and these pages. Prices change; confirm on the vendor site.
- https://authors.spotify.com/self-published-authors
- https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/spotify-for-authors-opt-in-distribution-terms/
- https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GD9PMU58BV24QFZ7
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