Who owns Audiobooks.com?
Audiobooks.com is owned by Storytel (Sweden, Nasdaq First North Growth Market: STORY B), which has owned the brand since 2022.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Storytel Group Annual and Sustainability Report 2025, Storytel AB (publ), 26 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Storytel AB (publ) reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇸🇪 Sweden, Stockholm
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Internet & digital › Streaming & media › Streaming audio
- Parent ticker
- Nasdaq First North Growth Market: STORY B
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Audiobooks.com
Audiobooks.com is a US audiobook streaming service that Storytel Group says it acquired in 2022, when the service had two million paying subscribers and a catalogue above one million titles. The annual report reports it as its own segment alongside Streaming and Publishing, and says the United States is one of Storytel's ten core markets through this brand.
Ownership timeline of Audiobooks.com
Where Audiobooks.com sits in Storytel
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Storytel
Storytel controls 10 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in streaming audio, and who owns them
Storytel has more brands in streaming audio on Brandtree than any other owner: 3 of 20.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Kugou Music | Tencent Music | 🇨🇳 China |
| Deezer | Deezer | 🇫🇷 France |
| LiveOne | LiveOne | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Spotify | Spotify | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Apple Music | Apple | 🇺🇸 United States |
| TIDAL | Block | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Melon | Kakao | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| NetEase Cloud Music | NetEase | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
About the owner: Storytel
Storytel is a publicly listed company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 2005. Brandtree records 10 brands under its control, and it is listed as Nasdaq First North Growth Market: STORY B.
Storytel AB is a Stockholm audiobook and ebook streaming group whose annual report dates its journey to 2005, when Jonas Tellander and Jon Hauksson founded the Bokilur audiobook service in Sweden. Its report describes two business areas, Streaming (under the Storytel, Mofibo and Audiobooks.com brands) and Publishing, a group of book publishers acquired since 2013. Its 2025 report states 2.67 million paying subscribers. Its holding in Storytel AS in Norway is a 50% joint venture and is not listed as a brand here.
🇺🇸 Audiobooks.com and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Audiobooks.com among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Audiobooks.com?
The parent company of Audiobooks.com is Storytel, a publicly listed company headquartered in Sweden.
Is Audiobooks.com American or Swedish?
Audiobooks.com originated in the United States, but it is owned today by Storytel, which is headquartered in Sweden. So Audiobooks.com is an American-origin brand under Swedish ownership.
Since when has Storytel owned Audiobooks.com?
Storytel has owned Audiobooks.com since 2022.
Is Audiobooks.com still owned by Storytel?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Audiobooks.com is still owned by Storytel. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Storytel Group Annual and Sustainability Report 2025 — Storytel AB (publ), Annual report, published 26 March 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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