Everand bundles e-books, audiobooks, and book clubs to take on Amazon

Audiobook, e-book, or both? That choice is no longer necessary. The Scribd-owned reading subscription service Everand is eliminating the dilemma. On Tuesday, the company unveiled a combined subscription that merges its catalog of over 1.5 million audiobooks and e-books with the social book club app Fable, which Everand acquired in 2025. This new unified plan directly takes on Amazon’s dominance in digital reading.

The subscription is now available to the two apps’ combined 5 million readers. It grants access to the vast library of digital titles plus Fable’s nearly 200,000 online book clubs. As you read or listen in one app, your progress syncs automatically to the other. Everand says it holds licensing agreements with all five major U. S. publishing houses and other key distributors.

The entry-level plan costs $11.99 per month in the U. S. and includes one book. A $16.99 per month tier offers three books, while the $28.99 per month option gives you five. Because this subscription covers both e-books and audiobooks, it presents a competitive alternative to Audible Premium Plus ($14.95/month), which provides one credit for an audiobook plus access to a streaming catalog of originals and podcasts.

Everand hopes this bundled approach will help smaller players carve out space in Amazon’s reading empire, which spans Audible audiobooks, Kindle e-books, and the popular reading recommendation app Goodreads. The strategy is a textbook example of using an acquisition to create switching costs and deepen user engagement, a playbook Amazon has used for years. By combining the properties, Fable’s more than 100 million ratings and reviews now appear within Everand, while Everand readers can join communities tied to the books they are reading.

The company notes that last year, 820,000 Fable readers joined a new club in the app. The new subscription plans include Fable Plus, which offers advanced reading stats, custom reading goals, bonus badges, and an ad-free experience. Normally, Fable Plus costs $5.99/month or $49.99/year.

Everand is not the only competitor circling Amazon’s turf. Spotify has entered the market with its own audiobooks offering and even physical books, using a “page match” feature to sync a reader’s place between a physical book and its audio version.

Everand believes the combined experience will attract readers who want a single subscription covering both formats. The company cites its own survey of over 1,600 U. S.-based adult readers conducted in 2025, which found that more than half regularly consume both audiobooks and e-books.

Timing is also critical. Thanks to BookTok’s influence and a broader resurgence of offline or “analog” activities, especially among Gen Z, readers now want not just content but communities where they can discuss their latest reads, rate and review titles, and share favorite quotes. Fable’s app caters to this trend with a book tracker, reading goals, daily streak trackers, lists, book clubs, and discussion rooms.

The app faces stiff competition. Numerous reading companion apps exist, including Hardcover, StoryGraph, Margins, PageBound, Bookshelf, Bookly, TBR, Reading Journey, Bookwise, and many others. The crowded field has already claimed one casualty; Tome announced a shutdown earlier this month, citing overwhelming competition.

In addition to the combined U. S. subscription, Everand is expanding its Standard, Plus, and Deluxe tiers to worldwide markets. The company has also changed 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.