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Obama’s new book banned as an audiobook in Sweden – by PRH

Nov 19, 2020 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Publishing Controversies, Sweden

To be clear, PRH has not banned the audiobook in Swedish outright, but without revenue from the...

Subscription audio will be more than half of Sweden’s book market by year’s end – Storytel’s Jonas Tellander

Nov 11, 2020 | Audiobooks, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Storytel, Sweden
UK: Ebooks and audiobooks head for all-time high in 2020. So much for “screen fatigue”

Nov 15, 2020 | Audiobooks, Ebooks, Global Publishing, UK
Nextory’s new $20 million cash injection shows subscription reading is as attractive to investors as to consumers. US and UK publishers look the other way

Nov 16, 2020 | Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Sweden, The global book market
The Frankfurt Book Fair “will be increasingly supplemented by digital and virtual formats.” But why did it take a pandemic to make it happen?

Nov 17, 2020 | Book Fairs, Germany, Global Publishing

Big Bad Wolf continues its digital evolution, this time in Taiwan

by Mark Williams | Nov 22, 2020 | Big Bad Wolf sale, Global Publishing, Taiwan, The global book market | 0 |

Too soon to say what long-term impact the online experience will have on Big Bad Wolf’s...

The 17th Thessaloniki International Book Fair is underway – online, of course

by Mark Williams | Nov 22, 2020 | Audiobooks, Book Fairs, Europe, Global Publishing, Greece, The global book market | 0 |

Greece does not have an Audible as a market driver. But Greece has streaming services with growing...

Obama’s new book banned as an audiobook in Sweden – by PRH

by Mark Williams | Nov 19, 2020 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Publishing Controversies, Sweden | 0 |

To be clear, PRH has not banned the audiobook in Swedish outright, but without revenue from the...

Quote unquote: “The book market, to stay relevant, needs to embrace the unlimited subscription model” – Jonas Tellander, CEO Storytel

by Mark Williams | Nov 18, 2020 | Audiobooks, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Storytel, The global book market | 0 |

Tellander speaks with the confidence of someone who knows he holds the trump cards for the global...

The Frankfurt Book Fair “will be increasingly supplemented by digital and virtual formats.” But why did it take a pandemic to make it happen?

by Mark Williams | Nov 17, 2020 | Book Fairs, Germany, Global Publishing | 0 |

The Buchmesse largely paid lip-service to the digital alternative while holding out hope the...

Nextory’s new $20 million cash injection shows subscription reading is as attractive to investors as to consumers. US and UK publishers look the other way

by Mark Williams | Nov 16, 2020 | Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Sweden, The global book market | 0 |

Just how much longer can US and UK publishers continue to look the other way as investors respond...

UK: Ebooks and audiobooks head for all-time high in 2020. So much for “screen fatigue”

by Mark Williams | Nov 15, 2020 | Audiobooks, Ebooks, Global Publishing, UK | 0 |

The bottom line is, even with the pandemic, digital books remain a (comparatively) small part of...

Subscription audio will be more than half of Sweden’s book market by year’s end – Storytel’s Jonas Tellander

by Mark Williams | Nov 11, 2020 | Audiobooks, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Storytel, Sweden | 0 |

Sweden’s book market is now some 60% digital, and it’s only the anticipated Christmas...

Big Bad Wolf Malaysia attracts 1.5 million buyers online. Partners with Shopee to extend the online flash sales experiment

by Mark Williams | Nov 10, 2020 | Big Bad Wolf sale, Global Publishing, Malaysia, S.E. Asia, The global book market | 0 |

It’s been a steep learning curve, but the numbers speak for themselves. Online or off, Big Bad...

Nielsen survey shows UK audiobooks boom continues with 15.8% unit growth, but no, ebook reading is not on the slide

by Mark Williams | Nov 9, 2020 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Global Publishing, UK | 0 |

It’s worth comparing the £164 million ($215 million) Nielsen forecast for 2020 UK audiobook...

UK: Bloomsbury hits 30% digital with 60% profits boost. The Bookseller, dismayed, says, “There is an upside”

by Mark Williams | Nov 3, 2020 | bookstores, UK | 1 |

“Swing that pendulum back to the 1980s immediately! We can’t have publishers...

In France a “Pyrrhic victory” as supermarkets barred from selling books – to be fair to bookstores

by Mark Williams | Oct 31, 2020 | bookstores, Europe, France, The global book market | 0 |

“We wanted equal treatment, not a race to the bottom. It sounds like a Pyrrhic victory for the...

A publishing double for Indonesia: Jakarta to host the 33rd IPA Congress in 2022 as it bids for UNESCO World Book Capital 2022

by Mark Williams | Oct 30, 2020 | Global Publishing, Indonesia, IPA, UNESCO World Book Capital | 0 |

Indonesia stands to pull off a publishing double in 2022. Jakarta is to host the 2022 IPA Congress...

As a new lockdown gets under way in France, bookstores once again ask to be treated as essential services

by Mark Williams | Oct 29, 2020 | bookstores, Europe, France, Global Publishing | 2 |

Lire, c’est vivre – reading is living – should not become reading carries a strong risk of dying...

Belgium becomes 21st market for Sweden’s Storytel. Thailand still to come this year

by Mark Williams | Oct 28, 2020 | Belgium, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Ebooks, Global Publishing, Netherlands | 0 |

Storytel Belgium launches with 250,000 titles, but only a handful are in Dutch, and even fewer in...

Germany’s Bookwire acquires readbox in a “value-generating collaboration”

by Mark Williams | Oct 28, 2020 | Aggregators, Digital Audio, Ebooks, Germany, Global Publishing | 0 |

“’Value-generating collaborations’ are the defining keywords of our time”...

It’s been 6 years since Amazon last launched a Kindle store. Today Amazon launches in Sweden – without a Kindle store

by Mark Williams | Oct 28, 2020 | Amazon, Ebooks, Europe, Global Publishing, Scandinavia, Sweden, The global book market | 0 |

Amazon: “Our goal is to have every book, ever published, in any language available for Kindle...

Bloomsbury profits soar 60% thanks to “significantly higher” online and ebook sales. Just how indispensable are bookstores to publishers?

by Mark Williams | Oct 27, 2020 | Europe, UK | 0 |

For bricks & mortar booksellers that emerge from the pandemic in one piece perhaps the biggest...

Malta Book Festival is online in November

by Mark Williams | Oct 26, 2020 | Book Fairs, Europe, Global Publishing, Malta | 1 |

The Malta Book Festival typically attracts 40,000 visitors, equivalent to almost 10% of the...

In France in 2019 digital accounted for just 8.7% of the book market

by Mark Williams | Oct 26, 2020 | Ebooks, Europe, France, Global Publishing, The global book market | 0 |

There’s no disputing that, with internet penetration at 92%, amounting to 60 million people...

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Obama’s new book banned as an audiobook in Sweden – by PRH

Subscription audio will be more than half of Sweden’s book market by year’s end – Storytel’s Jonas Tellander

UK: Ebooks and audiobooks head for all-time high in 2020. So much for “screen fatigue”

Nextory’s new $20 million cash injection shows subscription reading is as attractive to investors as to consumers. US and UK publishers look the other way

The Frankfurt Book Fair “will be increasingly supplemented by digital and virtual formats.” But why did it take a pandemic to make it happen?

Big Bad Wolf continues its digital evolution, this time in Taiwan

The 17th Thessaloniki International Book Fair is underway – online, of course

Obama’s new book banned as an audiobook in Sweden – by PRH

Quote unquote: “The book market, to stay relevant, needs to embrace the unlimited subscription model” – Jonas Tellander, CEO Storytel

The Frankfurt Book Fair “will be increasingly supplemented by digital and virtual formats.” But why did it take a pandemic to make it happen?

Nextory’s new $20 million cash injection shows subscription reading is as attractive to investors as to consumers. US and UK publishers look the other way

UK: Ebooks and audiobooks head for all-time high in 2020. So much for “screen fatigue”

Subscription audio will be more than half of Sweden’s book market by year’s end – Storytel’s Jonas Tellander

Big Bad Wolf Malaysia attracts 1.5 million buyers online. Partners with Shopee to extend the online flash sales experiment

Nielsen survey shows UK audiobooks boom continues with 15.8% unit growth, but no, ebook reading is not on the slide

UK: Bloomsbury hits 30% digital with 60% profits boost. The Bookseller, dismayed, says, “There is an upside”

In France a “Pyrrhic victory” as supermarkets barred from selling books – to be fair to bookstores

A publishing double for Indonesia: Jakarta to host the 33rd IPA Congress in 2022 as it bids for UNESCO World Book Capital 2022

As a new lockdown gets under way in France, bookstores once again ask to be treated as essential services

Belgium becomes 21st market for Sweden’s Storytel. Thailand still to come this year

Germany’s Bookwire acquires readbox in a “value-generating collaboration”

It’s been 6 years since Amazon last launched a Kindle store. Today Amazon launches in Sweden – without a Kindle store

Bloomsbury profits soar 60% thanks to “significantly higher” online and ebook sales. Just how indispensable are bookstores to publishers?

Malta Book Festival is online in November

In France in 2019 digital accounted for just 8.7% of the book market

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