Storytel Norway stands accused of favouring own content as Amazon rakes in cash from the books and music of its Prime Video success
Whosoever owns the platform owns the algorithms and can pretty much dictate what succeeds by...
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5,000 words, but the Amazon CEO letter to shareholders offers little promise for the publishing industry
One cannot help but feel no news is bad news for an industry which has for so long allowed itself...
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TNPS on LinkedIn – Round-Up # 7
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it all. But...
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Ten years and $2 billion later… Publishers should be concerned that Prime Air is still grounded
Right now Andy Jassy can write off the Prime Air losses as a Bezos-folly, but any commitment to...
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Fewer than half of viewers of Amazon Prime’s Lord of the Rings TV show completed the series. Publishers should be concerned.
When Amazon sneezes, publishers catch a cold. Costing around $500,000 to produce, making it the...
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Amazon’s dismantling of its books operations continues. Book Depository will close this month. What will be next?
Here’s the thing: Publishers have for decades allowed Amazon to so dominate the market that...
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Weeks before the busiest trading period of the year, and without waiting for the results, the Amazon axe continues to swing
The prospect of Amazon following its music route becomes all the stronger as Jassy runs out of...
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The video subscription market offers lessons, but few warnings, for the future of subscription in the book market. Here’s why
Be prepared for a lot of churn in late August as subscribers weigh up their Netflix, Disney,...
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Amazon Sweden now offers POD via KDP, but 2022 will mark eight years since Amazon last launched a Kindle store
Swedes hoping for an easy ride into the Kindle store will be disappointed. There is no Kindle...
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Amazon is closing Westland, the Indian publishing company it acquired in 2016. What will happen to its catalogue and authors?
Amazon’s latest triumph of hope over experience comes to an end with the slow realisation that the...
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AAP reports October ebook REVENUE worth $84 million. For the same month Kindle Unlimited paid out $39.8 million in ROYALTIES. Just how big is the real ebook market no-one wants to talk about?
Per the AAP, tracked ebook sales REVENUE from January through October 2021 amounted to $892.5...
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Amazon Prime launches in Sweden but books are still not on the agenda, almost 7 years after the last Kindle store
We shouldn’t be surprised. Sweden is the digital books capital of the world, on a per capita...
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