With bookstores closed much of 2020, more publishers inconsiderately report record sales and a “best ever year”
Bricks & mortar bookstores face an uphill struggle this year to demonstrate to publishers that...
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Category: Ebooks
Draft2Digital drops a distribution outlet as 24Symbols admits to “cash stability issues”, but don’t write off 24Symbols just yet
“We do indeed have some cash stability issues, and for this reason Draft2Digital decided to remove...
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Another nail in Screen Fatigue’s coffin as OverDrive clocks 430 million digital downloads in 2020
Print of course remains king, although bricks & mortar booksellers face existential challenges...
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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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OverDrive hits 366 million digital downloads in first 11 months of 2020, already exceeding the 2019 total by 40 million. So much for screen fatigue and Netflix killing off digital books
As we all know ebooks are yesterday’s format thanks to screen fatigue and Netflix, and audiobook...
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UK: Ebooks and audiobooks head for all-time high in 2020. So much for “screen fatigue”
The bottom line is, even with the pandemic, digital books remain a (comparatively) small part of...
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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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Germany’s Bookwire acquires readbox in a “value-generating collaboration”
“’Value-generating collaborations’ are the defining keywords of our time”...
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It’s been 6 years since Amazon last launched a Kindle store. Today Amazon launches in Sweden – without a Kindle store
Amazon: “Our goal is to have every book, ever published, in any language available for Kindle...
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In France in 2019 digital accounted for just 8.7% of the book market
There’s no disputing that, with internet penetration at 92%, amounting to 60 million people...
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Bookwire: ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts do not cannibalise, but act in a “mutually reinforcing manner”
Ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts have become mainstream. Ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts are...
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Philippines Senator calls for digitisation of textbooks to ensure students do not have to share books
Will a proposed amendment to the Filipino book laws be enough to kick-start digitisation of the...
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