Storytel Norway stands accused of favouring own content as Amazon rakes in cash from the books and music of its Prime Video success
Whosoever owns the platform owns the algorithms and can pretty much dictate what succeeds by...
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Category: Digital subscription
Paid Music Streaming Adds Half a Billion Users in a Decade
Streaming accounted for 67 percent of global recorded music revenues last year, as the number of...
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Kobo Plus expansion into US and UK is another much-needed nail in the coffin of the unlimited-subscription-is-over brigade
Publishers not wishing to add weight to Amazon’s dominance of the book markets by supporting...
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BookBeat hits SEK 1 billion milestone (accumulated) and best quarter ever. But did abandoning unlimited subscription help or hinder?
But what we don’t know is how much BookBeat has left on the table by removing completely the...
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BookBeat Italy partners with Mondadori
“Our ambition is to become one of the biggest players in the Italian market and to reach over...
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Fewer than half of viewers of Amazon Prime’s Lord of the Rings TV show completed the series. Publishers should be concerned.
When Amazon sneezes, publishers catch a cold. Costing around $500,000 to produce, making it the...
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Storytel Awards attract 200,000 votes as audiobook fan engagement soars to record levels
Happening since 2015, the Storytel Awards grow in stature each year. Beyond the invaluable...
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Romania – digital book market to reach $11 million / 10% market share by 2025
Audiobook & e-book streaming platform Voxa, launched in late 2021, clocked 160,000 subscribers...
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Amazon’s dismantling of its books operations continues. Book Depository will close this month. What will be next?
Here’s the thing: Publishers have for decades allowed Amazon to so dominate the market that...
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Brazil’s Audimo launches dimo.ai. Becomes the first Latin American streaming platform to use AI
“In the not-too-distant future, it will be difficult to imagine audio content streaming...
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How Crunchyroll Is Beating the Competition in Anime Streaming – Even Netflix
Harris’s in-depth report is well worth setting aside a long coffee break for, and publishers...
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UK – ITV Launching Kids Streamer, CITV to Shutter in Autumn. Publishers, wake up and smell the coffee
Many publishers will of course continue to limit the amount of content available through...
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