Category: Sweden
Sweden’s Gothenburg Book Fair plays safe with a 100% digital event as Frankfurt adopts a hybrid model many see as too high a risk
The month’s difference between the September Gothenburg Book Fair and the October Frankfurt Book...
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Publishers call the shots on Sweden’s Gothenburg Book Fair cancellation, adding to pressure on Frankfurt Buchmesse to deliver a game plan sooner than June
With the news today via Boktugg that Norstedts is out of the Gothenburg Book Fair, with other...
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After the LBF and BEA fiascos, publishers demand better from book fair organisers. Gothenburg is first to feel the heat. Will Frankfurt be next?
With the Nordics’ biggest literary event, the Gothenburg Book Festival, scheduled for late...
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Sweden’s Nextory sees 94% revenue and 110% subscriber growth in Q1
As ever with Nextory press releases, real numbers are hard to come by, and without a base line the...
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Storytel revenue up 45% in Q1. 1.15 million subscribers. But will the 2020 corona bounce give way to headwinds for Tellander’s 40-country $200 million revenue plans?
Even without the digital bounce the global pandemic has induced, Storytel was expected to perform...
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Word Audio Publishing International (WAPI) partners with StreetLib
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a StreetLib...
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Sweden’s audiobook subscription service Bokus Play to carry ebooks, launch own e-reader
While audiobooks tend to dominate the headlines about digital books streaming, most subscription...
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Sweden’s Nextory collects $6 million in new funding for European expansion amid “fantastic growth” in audiobook and ebook subscription
Already in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Nextory CEO Shadi Bitar has...
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Hungary’s Budapest International Book Fair postponed. Sweden’s Umeå Littfest cancelled
The Budapest International Book Fair in Hungary and the Umeå LittFest in Sweden are among the...
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Sweden’s Norstedts Förlagsgrupp sees digital revenues up 41% in 2019, with 50% from digital and 25% of that from audio
Norstedts, one of Sweden’s largest publishing houses, had its best turnover since 2013 thanks to...
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Storytel raises $96.5 million in new funding. A vote of confidence in the unlimited subscription model, not just the company
In a heavily oversubscribed surprise share issue late Thursday, Storytel raised SEK 948 million...
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Subscription accounted for 48% of Sweden’s book sales in 2019 as print book sales fell. The tipping point nears
It also seemed so unlikely, even in 2015, ten years after Storytel was founded. Back then Storytel...
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