Everand Challenges Amazon with Combined Audiobook and Ebook Subscription

The new subscription service, available to 5 million combined readers, offers access to over 1.5 million titles and nearly 200,000 online book clubs.

Everand, the Scribd-owned reading subscription service, has taken a bold step in its challenge to Amazon's dominance in digital reading. The company has launched a combined subscription that brings together its catalog of audiobooks and ebooks with the social book club app Fable. This move directly targets Amazon's reading empire, which spans Audible audiobooks, Kindle ebooks, and the popular Goodreads reading recommendation and logging app.

The new subscription is available to Everand's 5 million combined readers and provides access to over 1.5 million titles, including both audiobooks and ebooks. The service also includes nearly 200,000 online book clubs, allowing readers to engage with their favorite books and connect with others who share similar interests.

The entry-level plan offers one book for $11.99 per month in the U.S., while a $16.99 per month plan offers three books, and a $28.99 per month plan lets users dive into five. This is a fairly competitive deal compared with Audible Premium Plus, which offers one credit for an audiobook along with its streaming catalog of originals and podcasts.

Everand's bundled approach is a textbook case of using an acquisition to create switching costs and deepen user engagement. By combining the properties, Fable's more than 100 million ratings and reviews can now be surfaced in Everand, while Everand readers can jump into communities associated with the book they're currently reading.

The company notes that last year, 820,000 Fable readers joined a new club in its app.

The new subscription plans also include Fable Plus, offering advanced reading stats, custom reading goals, and an ad-free experience.

Everand believes the new combined experience could attract readers who want a subscription that covers both audiobooks and ebooks in one place. The company cites its own survey of over 1,600 U.S.-based adult readers conducted in 2025, which found that over half of readers regularly consume both formats.

Timing matters here, too. Thanks to BookTok's influence and a general resurgence of offline (or 'analog') activities, particularly among Gen Z, readers today are interested in not just consuming content but forming communities around the content, where they can discuss their latest reads, rate and review titles, share favorite quotes and passages, and more.

Fable's 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 its competition. Today, there are numerous reading companion apps to choose from, including Hardcover, Storygraph, Margins, PageBound, Bookshelf, Bookly, TBR, Reading Journey, and Bookwise, and many others. The crowding has already claimed one casualty; Tome announced a shutdown earlier this month, citing overwhelming competition.

In addition to the combined subscription for U.S. readers, Everand is also expanding its Standard, Plus, and Deluxe subscription tiers to worldwide markets. It has also modified how 'unlocks' work, allowing unused credits to roll over for up to six months, instead of expiring at the end of a subscriber's billing period.

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