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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Category: Sweden
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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Digital books subscription fever continues. Nextory subscribers up 60%. Storytel hits 1.6 million
It would be interesting to know how many of the top-level decision-makers in Big Pub who have...
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Sweden-based subscription streaming service BookBeat topped a half million subscribers in Q2. Keeps quiet about BookBeat UK
By keeping BookBeat UK out there despite never warranting a mention in the stream of positive...
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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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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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