Category: Digital subscription
Belgium becomes 21st market for Sweden’s Storytel. Thailand still to come this year
Storytel Belgium launches with 250,000 titles, but only a handful are in Dutch, and even fewer in...
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Storytel Belgium set to launch October 28, with Dutch-language stand-up comedy and audiobooks. French-speakers will have to wait
Storytel’s 21st market is a country of 11.5 million people where only 60% of the population speak...
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Quibi’s failure is not a sign of impending doom for digital books subscription. Just the opposite
If the whole point of Quibi was to offer consumers ten-minute video breaks in their busy lives in...
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Sweden’s Nextory to launch in Netherlands in December. Seeks expansion capital
But the big surprise would be were Nextory CEO Shadi Bitar to step outside Storytel’s shadow and...
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Sweden’s Nextory reports Q3 revenues up 76%, subscribers up 81%. But with no real numbers, what does this mean?
Clearly the numbers Nextory is showing investors are hitting the mark. Earlier this year Nextory...
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Is Sweden’s Nextory being deliberately excluded from the Norway book market?
Is something rotten in the state of Norway? Just as it emerges the third largest Norwegian digital...
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Norway’s authors fight to be on more unlimited subscription platforms
Author Jørn Lier Horst moved to Strawberry publishing house Capitana, and went from having titles...
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Sweden’s Storytel hits 1.3 million subscribers Q3. YOY revenue up 23%. Non-Nordic subscribers up 65% YOY. Non-Nordic revenue up 63%
More of the same from Storytel in Q3. Forecasts beat. Subscribers up. Revenues up. The unlimited...
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Netflix targets 500 million subscribers by 2030. Rolls out mobile-only subscription option for Nigeria’s 126 million internet users. Publishers look the other way
“We want to tell amazing stories tailored to different languages, different tastes, and different...
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Sweden sees book sales rise by 7.4% value and 20% volume this year, led by digital subscription (+32%). Pre-Christmas, 60% of consumption is now digital
Sölve Dahlgren: “Can regular sales channels make up their losses and thereby increase book sales...
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Mark Williams At Large: Perspectives on the Publishing Week
As the pandemic enters its second wave, Big 5 publisher Macmillan starts hiring again, raises its...
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Belgium joins Thailand for Storytel 2020 launch, lining up France, Portugal, Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland among many as possible candidates to join Israel and Indonesia in 2021-3
Storytel Belgium will be run from the Netherlands, setting the scene for Austria, Luxembourg and...
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