After various hints online, and in a move publishers have been waiting for, Google Play officially launched digital audiobooks, offered for sale in 45 countries and nine languages:English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Korean, Japanese and Polish. A launch promotion prices some top titles at less than $10, and they have an offer for 50 percent off the first audiobook purchase. Google bills listening “without a subscription” and “with no commitments” prominently as a virtue, an unstated comparison to Audible’s efforts to turn everyone into a subscriber, whether or not that is what they intended. Store
