Storytel streaming revenue hits $74 million in Q1, tops 2 million subscribers, but few signs for optimism globally
Unless a major opportunity to enter a mature market comes along akin to the Audiobooks.com...
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Storytel launches in Indonesia with 150,000 titles – but is Storytel expansion now on hold?
Indriani Widyasari faces a challenge she could never have anticipated in January 2021 when she...
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Storytel suspends Russia operations
Short of a change of regime in Russia it seems improbable Storytel will be able to resume...
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Shakedown at Storytel: Tellander out as TNPS-predicted headwinds hit. A critical moment for global audiobook streaming as a subscription icon takes a back seat
In the publishing industry there are a handful of people who stand head and shoulders above the...
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Storytel’s Q4 royalties revealed, and yes, they were lower than a regular sale royalty. Here’s why that’s not such a big deal
The idea that there is, or could ever be, one set royalty for all formats is a fantasy perpetuated...
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TNPS SPECIAL REPORT – Seismic Shifts 1: Storytel enters the English-language markets (Analysis)
Tellander is under no illusion that he must, for the immediate future, work with the credit system...
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Storytel acquires Audiobooks.com. Enters English-language markets in style
A full TNPS analysis of the Storytel acquisition of Audiobooks.com and what it means for the...
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Tellander talks the Metaverse as Storytel hits headwinds. Investors spooked, but publishers needn’t worry
For all the headwinds this quarter, Storytel remains in a league of its own, navigating uncharted...
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Norway’s unlimited subscription market was worth $50 million in 2020 – in a country of just 5.4 million people
With just 5.4 million people Norway is significantly smaller than cities like London or New York,...
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Russia audiobook market grows 4X in 2021. “The next five years will be the most successful in the history of audiobooks” – Boris Makarenkov, Storytel RU
The subscription-retail balance suggests that, when price friction is eliminated, audiobook...
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Storytel Q3 sees Non-Nordic subscribers rise 53%, streaming revenue up 42%. Now fields a catalogue of 700,000 titles
But the wider Storytel markets, while not yet delivering at the Nordics level, is where the...
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Behind Storytel India’s Tamil app is a bigger picture Amazon’s Audible has yet to see
For the literacy-challenged emerging markets the USP Tellander has latched on to which western...
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