Category: ebook subscription services
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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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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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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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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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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While PRH sits on its subscription plans, another Nordic publisher launches its own subscription service
Last month we reported here on a Boktugg news item suggesting the world’s biggest trade...
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Subscription accounted for 48% of Sweden’s book sales in 2019 as print book sales fell. The tipping point nears
It also seemed so unlikely, even in 2015, ten years after Storytel was founded. Back then Storytel...
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YouScribe launches in Burkina Faso as African expansion continues. You can’t put the digital subscription genie back in the bottle
With over half a billion Africans online it was always just a matter of time before digital...
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Following an “incredible” 2019, Sweden’s Bookbeat preps fifth market with Denmark launch planned
There’s a widespread belief in the US publishing industry that micro-markets – that is...
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Amazon Music hits 55 million global subscribers. You can't put the subscription genie back in the bottle
The big surprise from Amazon this week is not the fact that the company now has 55 million...
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Amazon’s ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited paid out over a quarter billion dollars in royalties to KDP authors for second year running
It’s been a good year for print and a great year for audiobooks. Ebooks, not so much. Or so we...
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