Complete Music Update featured the AIMP’s stance on Spotify bundling in their coverage of the music industry’s responses.
The campaign against Spotify’s sneaky audiobook bundling plans in the US is gaining momentum, with the boss of the National Music Publishers Association declaring “it’s time to fight again”, and the Association Of Independent Music Publishers committing its “unequivocal support” for the NMPA as it embarks on a “critical battle to prevent Spotify’s scheme from taking effect”.
– Chris Cooke, Complete Music Update
In a new statement, the indie publishers have also changed their demand to Spotify. Previously they said that the streaming service should tell users how to change their account settings so that they would not be unknowingly subscribed to a controversial new bundle package that includes audiobooks and pays lower royalties to songwriters. Now they want Spotify to automatically make that change, so that users would have to actively opt in if they decided they want the bundle option.