Nextory launches in 8th market, Norway, with 270,000 ebook and audiobook titles
Nextory is claiming to be the second largest digital books service in Norway and the only...
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Category: Europe
Sesamy, Sweden’s antidote to subscription, pulls in $5 million for European expansion to fix a problem that doesn’t exist elsewhere
…Outside the Nordics digital books subscription is at best a sideshow right now, and mostly...
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London Book Fair won’t refund exhibitors this year as it admits defeat and pivots to digital. Will publishers ever trust LBF again?
In other words, we haven’t a clue yet what we’ll be doing, because we are only doing this digital...
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Sweden’s Nextory subscribers grew 61% YoY in Q1. Finland users double
Currently in seven markets (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and...
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Bologna drops in-person event. Strengthens its digital fair. LBF keeps publishers guessing
One has to wonder if the London Book Fair as we know it even has a future, or if, like it’s US...
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Déjà vu as London Book Fair descends into farce for second year running. Time to put 2021 on hold, ditch Reed Exhibitions, and think about the New Normal
LBF21 might just manage to hobble forward this summer, but the right thing to do is to put it out...
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UK: 257 m. print books sold, 95 m. ebooks sold, 23 m. audiobooks sold in 2020, a record year amid bookstore closures
Just maybe deliberately overpriced ebooks will become a thing of the past as publishers examine...
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Storytel funding exceeds a quarter billion dollars in 18 months as new $138 million influx announced. US and UK publishers look the other way
“The proceeds will…finance potential future acquisition opportunities in accordance...
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Amazon launches in Poland. Sells Kindles but Polish is not a supported language
Amazon gleefully tells Polish consumers they can shop in the US store where ebooks are available...
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2020 was BookBeat’s “most successful year”. Revenue up 63%. Subscribers up 65%
The non-mention of BookBeat UK tells its own story. The UK and US are of course the mainstay of...
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Denmark’ bookstore Saxo into profit thanks to online sales and digital subscription
Regulars will know TNPS has been largely offline this past several weeks, and the disruption is...
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Germany’s Leipzig Book Fair to be digital this year
For global publishing the new normal is yet to fully emerge, but we can be certain we’ll see...
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