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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Category: Sweden
BookBeat Q1 revenue up 45% YOY. Subscribers up 66%. The runaway digital subscription train shows no sign of slowing
“We have never experienced such a high influx of new users at the beginning of a year as in 2021”...
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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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Storytel targets 2.5 million subscribers, $286 million streaming revenue by end 2021
“Today, access to unlimited subscriptions is considered a natural and modern form of “ownership”...
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Storytel funding exceeds a quarter billion dollars in 18 months as new $138 million influx announced. US and UK publishers look the other way
“The proceeds will…finance potential future acquisition opportunities in accordance...
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2020 was BookBeat’s “most successful year”. Revenue up 63%. Subscribers up 65%
The non-mention of BookBeat UK tells its own story. The UK and US are of course the mainstay of...
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Colombia’s hybrid Bogotá International Book Fair will have Sweden as Guest of Honour
Sweden will be the Filbo Guest of Honour and is preparing a “robust digital program”. Filbo, as...
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Sweden’s BookBeat launches ebook app as it sees 75% increase in ebook reading in 2020. Storytel Turkey adds ebooks in Turkish
Both listening and reading are increasing rapidly in all markets where Bookbeat is active, and in...
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Sweden’s most popular audiobooks on BookBeat, Nextory and Storytel
What’s most interesting here for those of us outside Sweden is to compare the lists of the...
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Sweden’s BookBeat passes 400,000 subscribers ahead of schedule. On target for $58 million revenue by year’s end
BookBeat aimed to pass 400,000 paying users before the turn of the year, a level that has now been...
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Obama’s new book banned as an audiobook in Sweden – by PRH
To be clear, PRH has not banned the audiobook in Swedish outright, but without revenue from the...
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Nextory’s new $20 million cash injection shows subscription reading is as attractive to investors as to consumers. US and UK publishers look the other way
Just how much longer can US and UK publishers continue to look the other way as investors respond...
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