Category: Europe
Romania’s 6-event BookFest 2022 programme announced, subject to the pandemic’s whim
With 14 million of its 19 million population online one might think a digital fall-back plan would...
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Hedge-fund owned RBMedia launches in German-language audiobook markets
One should not be too surprised if KKR sells RBMedia Verlag and its imprints to Storytel in...
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Paris Book Fair gets new name. Gets new look. Gets rid of Reed Expo and the “tyranny of the square metre”
“We are no longer working on the model of Reed Expo: here, we offer the Champ de Mars and...
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Expect a price war in Norway’s streaming market as BookBeat finally launches, with more countries promised
BookBeat CEO Niclas Sandin, for all his bold ambitions and aspirations, has his hands tied by...
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UK audiobook revenue up 71% on 2019. Ebooks up 10%. Consumer print up 6%. Children’s digital up 26%. Digital consumer non-fiction up 30%
Given both Findaway and Audiobooks.com impact on the UK market; and given Spotify is already a...
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Kobo Plus unlimited subscription launches in 7th market, Italy, days after Australia and New Zealand launches
Kobo Plus claims to be “the first service in Italy to provide a combined reading and listening...
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Competitive Denmark subscription market forces internal consolidation for Chapter
Even a small market like Denmark – population 5.7 million – can sustain a number of book...
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Digital books and unlimited subscription up, print down in Sweden – publishers elsewhere will want to look away
The growth of subscription services is slowing down – at least in percentage terms, as the...
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Frankfurt puts a brave face on the Pandemic Edition, but the low turnout does not augur well for LBF and Bologna as Covid-19 resurges
Against such a background we should look at Frankfurt this week, with its 15 publishers in a...
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Lithuania’s Vilnius Int. Book Fair returns in Feb ‘22
“People who never cared about books have started to read.” It’s still early days, and things...
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With the acquisition of Youboox, Nextory blazes a trail beyond Storytel’s shadow
The big story here is not catalogue size but rather the seismic shift in Nextory’s expansion...
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Spain’s Madrid Book Fair takes an 80% visitor hit but only drops 10% in book sales amid the Pandemic
Maybe the event organisers need to look at what they were doing right this year to see such...
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