Category: Europe
“Non-essential” UK bookstore retail faces an existential challenge as 2021 lockdown bites
Many publishers will be watching their retail accounts closely this lockdown and wondering at what...
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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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Simon & Schuster add 42,000 English-language titles to France-based subscription service Youboox
Penguin Random House, awaiting regulatory approval to acquire Simon & Schuster, earlier this...
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Sweden’s most popular audiobooks on BookBeat, Nextory and Storytel
What’s most interesting here for those of us outside Sweden is to compare the lists of the...
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Storytel Norway denies rumour it plans to pay publishers by the minute rather than a fixed rate per download
The reality is that while the unlimited subscriber will of course consume more, the service...
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Sweden’s BookBeat passes 400,000 subscribers ahead of schedule. On target for $58 million revenue by year’s end
BookBeat aimed to pass 400,000 paying users before the turn of the year, a level that has now been...
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The 17th Thessaloniki International Book Fair is underway – online, of course
Greece does not have an Audible as a market driver. But Greece has streaming services with growing...
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In France a “Pyrrhic victory” as supermarkets barred from selling books – to be fair to bookstores
“We wanted equal treatment, not a race to the bottom. It sounds like a Pyrrhic victory for the...
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As a new lockdown gets under way in France, bookstores once again ask to be treated as essential services
Lire, c’est vivre – reading is living – should not become reading carries a strong risk of dying...
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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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Bloomsbury profits soar 60% thanks to “significantly higher” online and ebook sales. Just how indispensable are bookstores to publishers?
For bricks & mortar booksellers that emerge from the pandemic in one piece perhaps the biggest...
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Malta Book Festival is online in November
The Malta Book Festival typically attracts 40,000 visitors, equivalent to almost 10% of the...
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