Category: Digital subscription
Kobo Plus subscription service prepares launches in France and Canada
Hat tip to The Digital Reader for kicking off this story. Yesterday Nate Hoffelder ran an item...
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Amid the global coronavirus crisis Storytel sees subscribers grow 38%, streaming revenue 45%, even as publishers that sidelined digital struggle for survival
The only surprise with the latest results from Sweden-based Storytel would have been if subscriber...
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Mapping the New Normal – unlimited streaming services from Alamo, Yippee and Mills & Boon as Faber CEO admits “lockdown lessons will outlast the pandemic”
Unlimited video streaming services are proliferating like wildfire, and unlimited ebook and...
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New global subscription service Mangamo caters for English-language Manga fans (but only on iOS). Wants us to know all its content is legal
The iOS-only launch of a new Manga subscription service may hinder its reach, but on the other...
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Publishers globally need to understand the new normal now evolving, and to develop post-pandemic “go wide” strategies that may at first glance seem counter-intuitive
It is estimated at least 50,000 readers in Spain have transitioned to digital reading – ebooks and...
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Sweden’s Nextory sees 94% revenue and 110% subscriber growth in Q1
As ever with Nextory press releases, real numbers are hard to come by, and without a base line the...
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Storytel revenue up 45% in Q1. 1.15 million subscribers. But will the 2020 corona bounce give way to headwinds for Tellander’s 40-country $200 million revenue plans?
Even without the digital bounce the global pandemic has induced, Storytel was expected to perform...
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Sweden’s audiobook subscription service Bokus Play to carry ebooks, launch own e-reader
While audiobooks tend to dominate the headlines about digital books streaming, most subscription...
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Sweden’s Nextory collects $6 million in new funding for European expansion amid “fantastic growth” in audiobook and ebook subscription
Already in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Nextory CEO Shadi Bitar has...
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Sweden’s Norstedts Förlagsgrupp sees digital revenues up 41% in 2019, with 50% from digital and 25% of that from audio
Norstedts, one of Sweden’s largest publishing houses, had its best turnover since 2013 thanks to...
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In USA 80% of music revenue came from streaming as the market grew, with 2019 streaming alone bigger than total market revenue in 2017
It’s hard to remember now but there was a time, and not so very long ago, when music was a...
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Storytel raises $96.5 million in new funding. A vote of confidence in the unlimited subscription model, not just the company
In a heavily oversubscribed surprise share issue late Thursday, Storytel raised SEK 948 million...
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