Avid audiobook listeners will be excited to know that Sonos has just added support for Audible to its line of smart speakers. Despite having already worked with Amazon to equip its Sonos One speakers with Alexa, Amazon's Audible audiobook service was still surprisingly missing from the list of available music services in the Sonos app after having been removed two years ago.

As a way of enticing people to sign up, Audible is also offering users 2 free credits with a 30 day trial. Usually, Audible trials only come with a single credit, so this is twice as good as their average promotion. Not only that, but Audible is also throwing in a free copy of Miles Davis' autobiography (of Kinda Blue fame) in addition to both books — so that's essentially 3 free audiobooks for free.

I managed to sign up for the trial, but for some reason, the autobiography was not added automatically to my account. I suspect this might have had something to do with an issue with my billing address, but after a 1-hour support chat with Audible, I eventually got the audiobook to show up in my library. Another thing to note is that there wasn't any verification that I actually owned a Sonos system at all, which seems to imply that the promotion is available for any user at all, even though the Audible page mentions that the deal is exclusively for Sonos owners.

Currently, the link to the Sonos blog post returns a 404 error, so we've copied it in full here. The link for the trial promotion is still working though, so be sure to sign up while you can.

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UPDATE: 2018/03/06 1:36pm PST BY

After having taken down the blog page, Sonos has backtracked on Audible compatibility. According to a statement given by a Sonos spokesperson to Android Police, Sonos is "actively working to bring Audible to Sonos, but this feature is not yet available. This blog post was published erroneously." Unfortunately, the trial page has also been taken down and now simply leads to Audible's homepage, but if you were lucky enough to take advantage of the promotion, the credits should still be in your account and you should still have a "Sonos Offer" membership status.

Despite not being live and there being no official ETA for Audible support in Sonos, it's clear that the feature should be ready to go live very soon.

UPDATE: 2018/03/20 1:25pm PDT BY

It looks like Sonos has finally rolled out Audible support after jumping the gun a couple of weeks back. The blog post and trial page are now live, so you should be able to take advantage of the promotion if you weren't able to previously. Again, this promotion is much better than the regular trial Audible offers, since users can get 3 free audiobooks (one of which is Miles Davis' autobiography) instead of the usual 1 audiobook.

The promotion is supposed to be exclusive for Sonos owners, though last time I was able to enroll in the trial without having to verify that I actually owned a Sonos speaker.

Source: Sonos blog, Audible Sonos offer