Category: Amazon
Amazon Sweden launch now imminent, but what part will books play?
Amazon has been talking with publishers in Sweden, but the absence of any serious rumours, let...
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Amazon finally sounding out publishers as Amazon Sweden venture readies
We’ve known for some while now that Amazon has been considering a Nordic launch, with...
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Amazon’s Audible France used by almost 20% of population in 2019. Mostly women and mostly at home
While many countries report commuters as the mainstay of their audiobook consumption, in France it...
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As the new normal for publishing evolves, Penguin Random House India opens an exclusive ebook store – on Amazon. A smart move in a country of 560 million internet users
When India’s Prime Minister extended one of the world’s harshest national lockdowns to May 3, as...
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Will the Amazon Netherlands launch this week boost Dutch book and ebook sales?
For publishers and authors outside the Netherlands it may come as a surprise to learn that Amazon...
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Amazon prepares Poland launch without books or ebooks. KDP Print now supports Hebrew and Yiddish. Might Arabic print be an option this year?
Back in November 2019 Amazon announced its plans for a launch in Poland, and while there are no...
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Judge rejects Audible’s and publishers’ request to keep Captions settlement secret
Per previous commentary on this topic, the US lawsuit between Amazon-owned Audible and a group of...
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Amazon’s Audible “prohibited from creating, generating, reproducing, modifying, distributing, publishing, or displaying” captions without publisher agreement
While this is a US story and not one that would normally be within the remit of TNPS to cover, the...
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The TNPS Week In Review: January 19-25
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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Amazon Music hits 55 million global subscribers. You can't put the subscription genie back in the bottle
The big surprise from Amazon this week is not the fact that the company now has 55 million...
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Amazon’s ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited paid out over a quarter billion dollars in royalties to KDP authors for second year running
It’s been a good year for print and a great year for audiobooks. Ebooks, not so much. Or so we...
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Amazon’s Audible and US audiobook publishers reach settlement in captions dispute
Not much detail on this story as yet, but it seems Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook service,...
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