Spotify Premium Adds The Hunger Games Audiobooks in Canada

Spotify Premium subscribers in Canada have more to listen to with their monthly audiobook hours, as Scholastic titles including The Hunger Games, Wings of Fire and Captain Underpants join the subscription catalogue.

The agreement with Scholastic U.S. took effect November 10 in Canada, the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. It brings the publisher’s kids and family catalogue into Audiobooks in Premium, including books that previously required a separate purchase.

Spotify added audiobook listening hours to Canadian Premium plans in April 2024. This latest expansion gives eligible subscribers more books to choose from within that allowance, rather than extra listening time.

Among the titles highlighted by Scholastic are Suzanne Collins’ Sunrise on the Reaping, Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s full-cast memoir Hey, Kiddo, Rebecca Elliott’s Owl Diaries series and Billy Ray’s Burn the Water.

The 15-hour limit still applies

In Canada, Premium Individual includes 15 hours of audiobook listening per month. Premium Duo and Family also include 15 hours, but only for the plan manager. Other members do not each get their own included 15-hour allowance.

That distinction matters if you are eyeing a Family subscription for the new children’s books. A plan with up to six Premium accounts still provides the included audiobook hours to just the person managing it.

Current monthly Canadian prices are:

• Individual: $13.99 for one account.
• Duo: $19.99 for two people living at the same address.
• Family: $23.99 for up to six family members living at the same address.

Those are the rates introduced in Spotify’s Canadian price increase earlier this year. The cheaper Student plan does not list an included audiobook allowance on Spotify’s Canadian plan page.

For existing eligible subscribers, the practical benefit is being able to use hours they already pay for on more Scholastic stories. Just keep the monthly cap and plan-manager restriction in mind before planning a family listening queue.

Which Scholastic audiobook would you listen to first?