Category: Europe
PRH, Bloomsbury and HarperCollins among those not attending the Buchmesse this year. As Pandemic Y2 fears grow, more will – and should – follow suit
Publishers need to be asking themselves, if they seriously aren’t ready to open their offices...
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SAGA Egmont is now Germany’s largest audiobook publisher
“Untapped potential for authors and publishers.” That’s the sweet spot where digital and global...
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Romania’s digital publishing steps up a gear with two new audiobook subscription services and new investment in online book retail
As Pandemic Y2 prepares to silently extend to Pandemic Y3 it becomes more and more likely...
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Storytel Nordics alone hits 1 million subscribers
Comprising Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland the Nordics is a region of five national...
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The SAGA Egmont – Roca Editorial audiobook partnership demonstrates the digital advantage for publishers everywhere
The bigger picture here is how a publisher in Denmark, a “minor-language” country with a...
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Gyldendal sees 50% of revenue from digital as Norway’s publishing industry rises 12.6% in H2 2020
Including education, Gyldendal has over 3 million digital users – this, remember, in a country of...
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Digital books subscription fever continues. Nextory subscribers up 60%. Storytel hits 1.6 million
It would be interesting to know how many of the top-level decision-makers in Big Pub who have...
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“The export potential of Ukrainian book publishing is between US$80 million and $100 million”
In mapping the Global New Renaissance we need to chart both the export and import potential of any...
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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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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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