Category: Europe
“Non-essential” UK bookstore retail faces an existential challenge as 2021 lockdown bites
by Mark Williams | Jan 10, 2021 | bookstores, Europe, Print, UK | 0 |
Many publishers will be watching their retail accounts closely this lockdown and wondering at what...
Read MoreSweden’s BookBeat launches ebook app as it sees 75% increase in ebook reading in 2020. Storytel Turkey adds ebooks in Turkish
by Mark Williams | Dec 10, 2020 | Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Ebooks, Europe, Global Publishing, Storytel, Sweden, Turkey | 0 |
Both listening and reading are increasing rapidly in all markets where Bookbeat is active, and in...
Read MoreSimon & Schuster add 42,000 English-language titles to France-based subscription service Youboox
by Mark Williams | Dec 3, 2020 | Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Europe, France, Global Publishing | 0 |
Penguin Random House, awaiting regulatory approval to acquire Simon & Schuster, earlier this...
Read MoreSweden’s most popular audiobooks on BookBeat, Nextory and Storytel
by Mark Williams | Nov 30, 2020 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Europe, Global Publishing, Scandinavia, Storytel, Sweden | 0 |
What’s most interesting here for those of us outside Sweden is to compare the lists of the...
Read MoreStorytel Norway denies rumour it plans to pay publishers by the minute rather than a fixed rate per download
by Mark Williams | Nov 27, 2020 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Europe, Global Publishing, Norway, Scandinavia | 0 |
The reality is that while the unlimited subscriber will of course consume more, the service...
Read MoreSweden’s BookBeat passes 400,000 subscribers ahead of schedule. On target for $58 million revenue by year’s end
by Mark Williams | Nov 25, 2020 | Digital subscription, Europe, Global Publishing, Sweden, The global book market | 0 |
BookBeat aimed to pass 400,000 paying users before the turn of the year, a level that has now been...
Read MoreThe 17th Thessaloniki International Book Fair is underway – online, of course
by Mark Williams | Nov 22, 2020 | Audiobooks, Book Fairs, Europe, Global Publishing, Greece, The global book market | 0 |
Greece does not have an Audible as a market driver. But Greece has streaming services with growing...
Read MoreIn France a “Pyrrhic victory” as supermarkets barred from selling books – to be fair to bookstores
by Mark Williams | Oct 31, 2020 | bookstores, Europe, France, The global book market | 0 |
“We wanted equal treatment, not a race to the bottom. It sounds like a Pyrrhic victory for the...
Read MoreAs a new lockdown gets under way in France, bookstores once again ask to be treated as essential services
by Mark Williams | Oct 29, 2020 | bookstores, Europe, France, Global Publishing | 2 |
Lire, c’est vivre – reading is living – should not become reading carries a strong risk of dying...
Read MoreIt’s been 6 years since Amazon last launched a Kindle store. Today Amazon launches in Sweden – without a Kindle store
by Mark Williams | Oct 28, 2020 | Amazon, Ebooks, Europe, Global Publishing, Scandinavia, Sweden, The global book market | 0 |
Amazon: “Our goal is to have every book, ever published, in any language available for Kindle...
Read MoreBloomsbury profits soar 60% thanks to “significantly higher” online and ebook sales. Just how indispensable are bookstores to publishers?
by Mark Williams | Oct 27, 2020 | Europe, UK | 0 |
For bricks & mortar booksellers that emerge from the pandemic in one piece perhaps the biggest...
Read MoreMalta Book Festival is online in November
by Mark Williams | Oct 26, 2020 | Book Fairs, Europe, Global Publishing, Malta | 1 |
The Malta Book Festival typically attracts 40,000 visitors, equivalent to almost 10% of the...
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