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Spotify adds yet another content option to its audio library, but it's only available in the US for now..

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The audio streaming service is partnering with Storytel. Here's what shareholders need to know.

This Week in Apps: Google I/O hits and misses, Snap goes shopping, Parler returns to App Store Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of liv...

Photo: Martin Bureau, Getty Images Spotify is partnering with Storytel, a Sweden-based audiobook streaming service, to integrate its library with Spotify’s platform later this year, the companies announced Thursday. Storytel is one of the first major publishers to take advantage of Spotify’s Open Access Platform, an initiative announced last month that aims to give creators new ways to monetise their content and grow their audiences. Storytel offers more than 500,000 audiobooks in 25 countries and competes with Amazon’s audiobook service, Audible. Once the integration is live, users wi...