Category: Digital Audio
BookBeat reported 21% growth in 2024, reaching $125 million revenue, and topped one million paying users
So pity the PRH authors who missed out on a share of BookBeat’s accumulative royalty payout of SEK 3.5 billion ($320 million) to participating publishers and authors.
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Audiobooks – Bookwire’s “All About Audio” Comes To Italy, But The Bigger Message Is Global
The transformative role of audio content in the publishing landscape, at a time when print is facing serious challenges that can only be exacerbated over the next few years as new economic realities hit home.
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The $1.275 billion UK audiobook market
By recognising and embracing the full potential of AI across the industry, publishers, authors and narrators alike can surf this new wave of possibilities, instead of being left behind.
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Spotify for (Some) Authors – the Spotify Seismic Shift Continues
Why, the publisher might ask, would a mere author want that kind of valuable info? This is the thin end of the wedge. The slippery slope. What next, letting authors see the actual sales records for their books?
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Storytel US reports “a lot of tailwinds” from Spotify audiobooks move
Storytel US reports “a lot of tailwinds” from Spotify audiobooks move.
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Bonnier Books UK and Blackstone Publishing (US) add audiobook catalogues to Spotify
All indications so far are that Spotify’s audiobook offering is expanding the market in the...
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Audiobooks: subscription, digital libraries or à la carte? There’s room for all!
The Dutch experience, and the emerging picture from Spotify, shows very clearly there is room for all models, and that publishers and authors that eschew one or the other are simply missing out.
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Kobo Plus unlimited subscription launches in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ireland and South Africa
Those of you desperately wanting to be offended or outraged by my TNPS op-eds will have to simmer...
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Seismic shift: Spotify bumps Apple. Rattles Audible. But no, Spotify audiobooks are not free
There is no “free” involved. You pay money and then get a choice of content and...
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Is Spotify’s audiobook service already hurting Audible?
How many Audible subscribers, handing over a fixed sum each month for one single audiobook, also subscribe to Spotify for their music fix?
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In 2023 OverDrive’s digital library downloads alone were 86% of total US print sales, while Kindle Unlimited paid out $575 million
Per The Bookseller, reporting on Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market report for 2023, the...
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Authors demand Spotify tell them the deal details their publishers are keeping quiet about
What Spotify and others did was to expand the (music) market beyond the wildest dreams of music artists and publishers.
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