Category: Digital subscription
Sun rises in the east. Night follows day. Storytel beats forecasts
Storytel’s bigger challenges are that entry into most English-language markets remains unlikely so...
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Sweden’s Storytel to introduce global flexible holidays for employees. Western publishers currently in Christmas limbo might want to take notes
This is the 2020s, the industry is global, and our sacred western holiday is just another working...
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The subscription ascendancy moves closer as Disney premium content bypasses theatres. Publishers stand to lose twice
The transition from retail to subscription is now inexorable and inevitable. The challenge for the...
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Sweden’s BookBeat launches ebook app as it sees 75% increase in ebook reading in 2020. Storytel Turkey adds ebooks in Turkish
Both listening and reading are increasing rapidly in all markets where Bookbeat is active, and in...
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Storytel India starts its fourth year by adding 9th language, Malayalam, to its India content portfolio
For now at least Storytel would appear to have the upper hand in the India audiobook market, while...
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Warner Bros. says it will send ALL its 2021 releases to a streaming service at same time as to cinemas. Book publishers – wake up and smell the coffee
This is just one more digital genie that, once out of the bottle, is not going to go back in. HBO...
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Simon & Schuster add 42,000 English-language titles to France-based subscription service Youboox
Penguin Random House, awaiting regulatory approval to acquire Simon & Schuster, earlier this...
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Sweden’s Nextory launches in 7th market – the Netherlands – with 200,000 titles
The big question is what Shadi Bitar will do next, and if he will be willing to step outside the...
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Storytel Thailand launches on schedule. 22nd market. 4th in APAC. 18 further markets to come by 2023
As we say goodbye to 2020 it seems like the digital audiobook format, so much the darling of the...
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Sweden’s most popular audiobooks on BookBeat, Nextory and Storytel
What’s most interesting here for those of us outside Sweden is to compare the lists of the...
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Storytel Norway denies rumour it plans to pay publishers by the minute rather than a fixed rate per download
The reality is that while the unlimited subscriber will of course consume more, the service...
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Sweden’s BookBeat passes 400,000 subscribers ahead of schedule. On target for $58 million revenue by year’s end
BookBeat aimed to pass 400,000 paying users before the turn of the year, a level that has now been...
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