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AI audiobooks take a big step towards the audio New Normal with DeepZen Ingram partnership

Sep 21, 2021 | AI, Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Global Publishing

…The global audiobook market could be poised to reach heights few in the industry today...

PRH, Bloomsbury and HarperCollins among those not attending the Buchmesse this year. As Pandemic Y2 fears grow, more will – and should – follow suit

Aug 29, 2021 | Book Fairs, Europe, Global Publishing
Romania’s digital publishing steps up a gear with two new audiobook subscription services and new investment in online book retail

Aug 22, 2021 | Digital subscription, Europe, Global Publishing, Romania
SAGA Egmont is now Germany’s largest audiobook publisher

Aug 23, 2021 | Audiobooks, Denmark, Digital Audio, Europe, Germany, Global Publishing
China’s last-minute Beijing IBF cancellation is a reminder Pandemic Y2 is far from over and publishers need to be thinking about Pandemic Y3

Aug 24, 2021 | Book Fairs, China, Coronavirus

Amazon Prime launches in Sweden but books are still not on the agenda, almost 7 years after the last Kindle store

by Mark Williams | Sep 21, 2021 | Amazon, Global Publishing, Sweden | 0 |

We shouldn’t be surprised. Sweden is the digital books capital of the world, on a per capita...

AI audiobooks take a big step towards the audio New Normal with DeepZen Ingram partnership

by Mark Williams | Sep 21, 2021 | AI, Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Global Publishing | 1 |

…The global audiobook market could be poised to reach heights few in the industry today...

Amazon-owned Audible’s unlimited subscription now in five markets. And counting…

by Mark Williams | Sep 16, 2021 | Audible, Audiobooks, Australia, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Global Publishing | 0 |

But can anyone seriously imagine PRH taking the moral high ground and pulling its titles when (not...

With 25 million audiobook consumers, India takes third place behind USA and China. Might Storytel be eyeing an acquisition?

by Mark Williams | Sep 8, 2021 | Audiobooks, Global Publishing, India, South Asia | 0 |

Audible and Storytel are the biggest foreign players in the Indian audiobook market, but keep an...

Buchmesse Guest of Honour Canada unlikely to attend in-person as for the second year Frankfurt plays dice with the publishing industry

by Mark Williams | Aug 31, 2021 | Book Fairs, Canada, Germany, Global Publishing | 0 |

The growing evidence, one and a half years into the Pandemic, is that publishers prosper just fine...

PRH, Bloomsbury and HarperCollins among those not attending the Buchmesse this year. As Pandemic Y2 fears grow, more will – and should – follow suit

by Mark Williams | Aug 29, 2021 | Book Fairs, Europe, Global Publishing | 0 |

Publishers need to be asking themselves, if they seriously aren’t ready to open their offices...

Taiwan’s Taipei Book Fair is on tour while sister fair TIBE was virtual. What chance TIBE 2022 will go ahead in-person?

by Mark Williams | Aug 29, 2021 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Taiwan | 0 |

That’s always supposing – a big assumption right now – that by next June the Pandemic is in...

Storytel and Tocalivros partner to boost the Brazil audiobook market

by Mark Williams | Aug 27, 2021 | Audiobooks, Brazil, Digital subscription, Global Publishing | 0 |

Sweden’s Storytel and Brazil’s Tocalivros have decided that partnering for market share might be a...

The classic chicken and egg publishing problem the Nordics know the solution to

by Mark Williams | Aug 27, 2021 | Angola, Audiobooks, Awards, Brazil, Cape Verde, Global Publishing, Mozambique | 0 |

It wasn’t so very long ago when there was no audiobook market in the Nordics. The reason was...

China’s last-minute Beijing IBF cancellation is a reminder Pandemic Y2 is far from over and publishers need to be thinking about Pandemic Y3

by Mark Williams | Aug 24, 2021 | Book Fairs, China, Coronavirus | 0 |

Publishers need to be strategising about Pandemic Y3 as a very realistic prospect, not making...

SAGA Egmont is now Germany’s largest audiobook publisher

by Mark Williams | Aug 23, 2021 | Audiobooks, Denmark, Digital Audio, Europe, Germany, Global Publishing | 0 |

“Untapped potential for authors and publishers.” That’s the sweet spot where digital and global...

Romania’s digital publishing steps up a gear with two new audiobook subscription services and new investment in online book retail

by Mark Williams | Aug 22, 2021 | Digital subscription, Europe, Global Publishing, Romania | 0 |

As Pandemic Y2 prepares to silently extend to Pandemic Y3 it becomes more and more likely...

The parallel publishing universe that is online reading continues its exponential rise as mainstream western publishing looks the other way

by Mark Williams | Aug 20, 2021 | Digital-Reading Initiatives, Global Publishing, Indonesia, North America, Social Publishing, Wattpad | 0 |

Add the 70 million readers on Pratilip, the 49 million for China Literature outside China and the...

Hachette acquisition of Workman is a Pandemic-era consolidation tale where backlist is the key

by Mark Williams | Aug 19, 2021 | Publishing Brief, USA | 0 |

Pre-2020 a publishers’ backlist wouldn’t have been a selling point, and backlist not a keyword a...

India’s online Delhi Book Fair expects more than 300,000 visitors this September

by Mark Williams | Aug 15, 2021 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, India, South Asia | 0 |

While the Delhi events organisers understand the potential of digital, the Kolkata organisers seem...

Consumers are evolving: Canada’s Indigo will be focusing all its attention on digital investment. A lesson for book retailers everywhere

by Mark Williams | Aug 13, 2021 | bookstores, Canada, Global Publishing, North America | 0 |

(CEO Heather Reisman’s digital focus) is in stark contrast to book retailers in other...

Amazon’s inexorable shift to unlimited subscription is creeping up on complacent publishers looking the other way

by Mark Williams | Aug 13, 2021 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, UK | 0 |

The slippery slope has been greased. Audible Plus US and UK are going to outperform the regular...

Parallel Paths: Kobo Plus Canada subscription service marks first year, confirms imminent Portugal launch as ViacomCBS tops 42 million global subscribers

by Mark Williams | Aug 8, 2021 | Canada, Digital subscription, Global Publishing | 0 |

The bigger picture here is the slow but inexorable spread of the subscription model across the...

Pearson+ subscription app “brings e-books in line with how students buy and experience the rest of their content”. Most other publishers look away

by Mark Williams | Aug 5, 2021 | Academic and specialist publishing, Digital subscription, North America, USA | 0 |

But as the subscription screws tighten, so publishers will have to rethink their resistance to...

Nextory launches in 9th market, Spain. Re-branded Nubico platform goes head to head with Storytel and Audible

by Mark Williams | Aug 3, 2021 | Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Ibero-America, Spain | 0 |

Of more interest is what this launch may mean for Nextory’s wider global ambitions, especially in...

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AI audiobooks take a big step towards the audio New Normal with DeepZen Ingram partnership

PRH, Bloomsbury and HarperCollins among those not attending the Buchmesse this year. As Pandemic Y2 fears grow, more will – and should – follow suit

Romania’s digital publishing steps up a gear with two new audiobook subscription services and new investment in online book retail

SAGA Egmont is now Germany’s largest audiobook publisher

China’s last-minute Beijing IBF cancellation is a reminder Pandemic Y2 is far from over and publishers need to be thinking about Pandemic Y3

Amazon Prime launches in Sweden but books are still not on the agenda, almost 7 years after the last Kindle store

AI audiobooks take a big step towards the audio New Normal with DeepZen Ingram partnership

Amazon-owned Audible’s unlimited subscription now in five markets. And counting…

With 25 million audiobook consumers, India takes third place behind USA and China. Might Storytel be eyeing an acquisition?

Buchmesse Guest of Honour Canada unlikely to attend in-person as for the second year Frankfurt plays dice with the publishing industry

PRH, Bloomsbury and HarperCollins among those not attending the Buchmesse this year. As Pandemic Y2 fears grow, more will – and should – follow suit

Taiwan’s Taipei Book Fair is on tour while sister fair TIBE was virtual. What chance TIBE 2022 will go ahead in-person?

Storytel and Tocalivros partner to boost the Brazil audiobook market

The classic chicken and egg publishing problem the Nordics know the solution to

China’s last-minute Beijing IBF cancellation is a reminder Pandemic Y2 is far from over and publishers need to be thinking about Pandemic Y3

SAGA Egmont is now Germany’s largest audiobook publisher

Romania’s digital publishing steps up a gear with two new audiobook subscription services and new investment in online book retail

Hachette acquisition of Workman is a Pandemic-era consolidation tale where backlist is the key

India’s online Delhi Book Fair expects more than 300,000 visitors this September

Consumers are evolving: Canada’s Indigo will be focusing all its attention on digital investment. A lesson for book retailers everywhere

Amazon’s inexorable shift to unlimited subscription is creeping up on complacent publishers looking the other way

Parallel Paths: Kobo Plus Canada subscription service marks first year, confirms imminent Portugal launch as ViacomCBS tops 42 million global subscribers

Pearson+ subscription app “brings e-books in line with how students buy and experience the rest of their content”. Most other publishers look away

Nextory launches in 9th market, Spain. Re-branded Nubico platform goes head to head with Storytel and Audible

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