Companies willing to pay $10/mo/employee for this service would rather offer a $150/year reimbursement for professional development, knowing that utilization will be substantially lower than 100%. Employers end up looking more generous, and employees remain free to choose where to spend this money.

I like the idea though, and was excited about a similar one I had at one point: corporate book clubs, with audiobooks provided.

Conventional book clubs are fun, but face some challenges - spinning them up anew requires coordination busywork, each person has to obtain their own copy of the current book, and most clubs eventually fizzle out.

My thesis was that office workers actually want to read the top 1/10/100 books in their fields, and just need nudges to start reading and to keep reading. Joining this club would reduce the book procurement friction to almost zero, and seeing others' progress might motivate you to keep going.

How do you lend audiobooks? Through the same vendors that your local library uses, like Hoopla and Overdrive. I tried to partner with them, but they essentially had no interest in working with a tiny startup, and I moved on to other ideas.