Everand’s startup is now bringing together e-books, audiobooks and book clubs in a challenge to Amazon

Audiobook, eBook, or both? Now, you won’t have to choose. The reading subscription service owned by Scribd Everand He wants to make the choice unnecessary. On Tuesday, the company unveiled a combined subscription that brings together Everand’s catalog of more than 1.5 million audiobooks and e-books with its social book club app. mythwhich Everand Acquired in 2025, In one plan, it directly challenges Amazon’s dominance in digital reading.

The new subscription is available to the two apps’ combined 5 million readers, and provides access to Fable’s 1.5 million-plus title library of audiobooks and e-books, as well as Fable’s nearly 200,000 online book clubs. As you read or listen in one app, that activity is synced with the other app.

The Starter plan offers one book for $11.99 per month in the US, while the $16.99 per month plan offers three books, and the $28.99 per month plan lets you dive into five books. Since the subscription covers both eBooks and audiobooks, this is a fairly competitive deal compared to Audible Premium Plus ($14.95 per month), which offers one audiobook credit alongside its catalog of originals and podcasts.

The hope on Everand’s part is that this combined approach can help smaller players like him make an impact in Amazon’s reading empire, which today includes Audible audiobooks, Kindle e-books, reading recommendation and the still hugely popular Goodreads recording app.

It’s a textbook case of using acquisition to create switching costs and deepen user engagement — exactly the playbook Amazon has been running for years. By combining the features, Fable’s over 100 million ratings and reviews can now be visible in Everand, while Everand readers can navigate to communities related to the book they’re currently reading.

The company notes that last year, 820,000 Fable readers joined a new club in its app. With the new subscription plans, Fable Plus is included, providing advanced reading statistics, personalized reading goals, and an ad-free experience.

Everand isn’t the only one circling the Amazon. Spotify has also entered this market with its own audiobook offerings, and oddly enough, physical books. To help users navigate between formats, Spotify offers a “Page Match” feature that syncs your location between the actual book and the audio version.

Everand believes the new combined experience could attract readers who want a subscription that covers both audiobooks and e-books in one place. Citing her own survey Among more than 1,600 U.S.-based adult readers surveyed in 2025, it found that more than half of readers regularly consume both formats.

Timing is important here too. Thanks for Booktalk The effect and overall recovery of Offline (or “Analogue“) activities, especially within General ZToday, readers are interested not only in consuming content, but in creating communities around content, where they can discuss their latest reads, rate and review titles, share favorite quotes and passages, and more.

Myth The Community app caters to this trend, offering a book tracker, reading goals, daily streak trackers, lists, book clubs, and discussion rooms.

The app is not without competition. Today, there are many reading companion apps to choose from, including Hardcover, Storygraph, Margins, PageBound, Bookshelf, Bookly, TBR, Reading Journey, Bookwise, and many more. The overcrowding has already killed one person. Tommy announced the closure Earlier this month, citing overwhelming competition.

In addition to the built-in subscription for U.S. readers, Everand is also expanding its Standard, Plus, and Deluxe subscription tiers to global markets. It has also modified how Unlock works, allowing unused balances to be renewed for up to six months, rather than expiring at the end of a subscriber’s billing period.