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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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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US – AAP-reported trade revenues up 3.1% in January. Ebooks up 3.7%. Unreported Kindle Unlimited pay-out up 5.7% – over half the AAP total
If we add the KU pay-out to the AAP figure we have an ebook market value for January of $132.9...
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TNPS values the US trade ebook market at $3.65 billion in 2022, regardless of what the AAP and Nielsen will tell us
That still leaves audio a long, long way to go – another $1.65 billion since you ask – to...
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Weeks before the busiest trading period of the year, and without waiting for the results, the Amazon axe continues to swing
The prospect of Amazon following its music route becomes all the stronger as Jassy runs out of...
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The most important event at Frankfurt 2022 is available to watch on video. Kobo, Wattpad and the “dark matter” of publishing
The internet and electricity gods have been in foul mood this past week, but thankfully the most...
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As Storytel, Nextory and BookBeat pursue limited consumption strategies, Audible doubles down on unlimited
1,300 unlimited-access titles is of course a drop in the Audible France ocean, but this is part of...
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APA’s April StatShot: $84 million ebook revenue. In the same month Kindle Unlimited paid out $41 million to indie authors and small presses
Even without knowing the KU and a la carte APub numbers (which we can see from ebook chart...
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Nextory’s 69% subscriber growth in Q1 may not be as impressive as at first appears
Nextory is said to be considering an IPO for the company, although in the light of recent...
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Shakedown at Storytel: Tellander out as TNPS-predicted headwinds hit. A critical moment for global audiobook streaming as a subscription icon takes a back seat
In the publishing industry there are a handful of people who stand head and shoulders above the...
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