And your location in the book will sync across devices, so you won't have to try and find your place when listening across multiple devices.Īside from the expected ubiquity across devices and platforms, audiobooks will also be available without a subscription. If you're a fan of using the Google Assistant, you can simply say 'Hey Google, read my book' and your phone or speaker will continue reading the most recent book you were listening to. To play a book on your phone, you'll need to download the Google Play Books app, which until now has focused on text-only options. As with most other Google services, audiobooks are available on pretty much any device you would want to use: Android, iOS, the web and Google Home speakers.

As a leaked image revealed a few days ago, audiobooks are now on sale from Google Play in 45 countries and nine languages.

The Google Play Store has sold just about every media type for years now, but there's one more category the company is getting into as of today: audiobooks.

Google play audiobook