BookBeat hits SEK 1 billion milestone (accumulated) and best quarter ever. But did abandoning unlimited subscription help or hinder?
But what we don’t know is how much BookBeat has left on the table by removing completely the...
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Category: Sweden
Sweden – Nextory adds news and mags to its platform. “A completely natural step”
The venture, Nytell says, “is a completely natural step for us.” Which is of course...
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Amazon Sweden now offers POD via KDP, but 2022 will mark eight years since Amazon last launched a Kindle store
Swedes hoping for an easy ride into the Kindle store will be disappointed. There is no Kindle...
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One tenth of Sweden’s population now has an audiobook subscription
In the mature English-language markets, where unlimited subscription is still a dirty word,...
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Acquisition drives Nextory’s explosive percentage growth, but real numbers remain as elusive as ever
The Q1, Q2 and Q3 Nextory reports told of increases of 61%, 58% and 68% respectively, or an...
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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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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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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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BookBeat Q3 subscribers up 47% percent. Revenue up 39% Q1-Q3. Targets 600,000 paying users by end 2021
“We saw strong growth before the pandemic, we saw strong growth during the pandemic and now...
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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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Nextory subscribers up 68% in Q3, with strong growth in new markets Norway and Spain
Further European expansion in 2020 is a given, but the litmus test for Nextory’s role as pretender...
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