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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Category: Sweden
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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Amazon Prime launches in Sweden but books are still not on the agenda, almost 7 years after the last Kindle store
We shouldn’t be surprised. Sweden is the digital books capital of the world, on a per capita...
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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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