Storytel
Storytel is an international audiobook streaming service (over 800,000 stories in 40 languages) that also offers access to 2,500,000 ebooks. It operates on an all-inclusive model: for a monthly fee of €9.99 per month, users gain unlimited access to the entire library. A family plan allows up to three users to listen simultaneously with a single subscription. Kids' mode containes only children's books and allows content restrictions. You can download audiobooks and ebooks for offline reading on your favorite devices in the app. You can subscribe to your favorite author, narrator or series and receive personalized recommendations based on your previous listening habits. In addition to classic and popular books, the app offers exclusive audio series and podcasts (Storytel Originals).
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24.12.25. Storytel allows to buy audiobooks without subscription
Storytel now allows you to purchase audiobooks and ebooks individually in the app or on storytel.com (regardless of whether you have a subscription). These are primarily books from major publishers like Penguin Random House and Hachette. Examples of ebooks and audiobooks available for purchase in the app include Harry's memoir "Spare," Dan Brown's "The Secret of Secrets," James Clear's "Atomic," Habits, Schuyler Bailar's "He/She/They," and Erica Ridley's "My Rogue to Ruin." These books are only available in a few countries, such as Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.
2025. Storytel published first audiobook written by AI
It was only a matter of time before someone handed the keys to literature over to an AI and then acted surprised when it promptly drove straight into a narrative ditch. With Audible already cozying up to artificial narrators, Storytel decided to join the fray, birthing Rosy Lett—an AI author with a suspiciously long 22-year career and an equally suspicious grasp of storytelling. Tasked with writing a novel on love in the age of AI, Rosy enthusiastically churned out what the team later described as a "generic science fiction soap opera"—which is a polite way of saying it was a plot-hole-ridden mess that made even the most convoluted telenovelas look like meticulously crafted epics. A long and exhausting process of literary life coaching ensued, at the end of which Rosy was gently encouraged to rewrite the whole thing in a much, much shorter format—perhaps in the hope that fewer words meant fewer disasters.
24.12.25. Storytel allows to buy audiobooks without subscription
Storytel now allows you to purchase audiobooks and ebooks individually in the app or on storytel.com (regardless of whether you have a subscription). These are primarily books from major publishers like Penguin Random House and Hachette. Examples of ebooks and audiobooks available for purchase in the app include Harry's memoir "Spare," Dan Brown's "The Secret of Secrets," James Clear's "Atomic," Habits, Schuyler Bailar's "He/She/They," and Erica Ridley's "My Rogue to Ruin." These books are only available in a few countries, such as Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.
2025. Storytel published first audiobook written by AI
It was only a matter of time before someone handed the keys to literature over to an AI and then acted surprised when it promptly drove straight into a narrative ditch. With Audible already cozying up to artificial narrators, Storytel decided to join the fray, birthing Rosy Lett—an AI author with a suspiciously long 22-year career and an equally suspicious grasp of storytelling. Tasked with writing a novel on love in the age of AI, Rosy enthusiastically churned out what the team later described as a "generic science fiction soap opera"—which is a polite way of saying it was a plot-hole-ridden mess that made even the most convoluted telenovelas look like meticulously crafted epics. A long and exhausting process of literary life coaching ensued, at the end of which Rosy was gently encouraged to rewrite the whole thing in a much, much shorter format—perhaps in the hope that fewer words meant fewer disasters.
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