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South Korea’s Kakao spends $950 million to acquire Tapas and Radish. Plans launches in Thailand, Taiwan, India and China as the online reading market heats up

May 12, 2021 | South Korea

Tapas revenue increased ten-fold in 2020. Radish revenue increased fivefold in 2020. Less than a...

Nextory launches in 8th market, Norway, with 270,000 ebook and audiobook titles

May 3, 2021 | Digital subscription, Europe, Global Publishing, Norway, Scandinavia
USA’s AAP numbers shows print and digital formats all doing well, but the digital numbers only tell a partial story

May 5, 2021 | ebook subscription services, Ebooks, Print, USA
Since Jan 2018 the Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service has paid out over $1 billion in royalties to indie authors

May 8, 2021 | Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Ebooks, Global Publishing, USA
Colombia’s pandemic-driven online book sales boom

May 11, 2021 | Book Fairs, Colombia, Global Publishing, Ibero-America, Latin America, Storytel

Turkey the fastest-growing of Storytel’s 25 markets, up 112% in 2020. But can Storytel global revenue keep up with expectations?

by Mark Williams | May 12, 2021 | Audiobooks, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Global Publishing, Turkey | 0 |

Sweden charges $20 a month. Compare Turkey where charging $4.20 brings only 21% of the Sweden...

South Korea’s Kakao spends $950 million to acquire Tapas and Radish. Plans launches in Thailand, Taiwan, India and China as the online reading market heats up

by Mark Williams | May 12, 2021 | South Korea | 0 |

Tapas revenue increased ten-fold in 2020. Radish revenue increased fivefold in 2020. Less than a...

Colombia’s pandemic-driven online book sales boom

by Mark Williams | May 11, 2021 | Book Fairs, Colombia, Global Publishing, Ibero-America, Latin America, Storytel | 0 |

Does that mean print is stil king? Of course, but what really matters is how consumers will...

Since Jan 2018 the Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service has paid out over $1 billion in royalties to indie authors

by Mark Williams | May 8, 2021 | Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Ebooks, Global Publishing, USA | 0 |

The invisible ebook market redux: the ebook market is bigger than we realise, and subscription...

USA’s AAP numbers shows print and digital formats all doing well, but the digital numbers only tell a partial story

by Mark Williams | May 5, 2021 | ebook subscription services, Ebooks, Print, USA | 0 |

And then there’s ebooks, where we can safely say the AAP numbers are at best indicative, but miss...

Nextory launches in 8th market, Norway, with 270,000 ebook and audiobook titles

by Mark Williams | May 3, 2021 | Digital subscription, Europe, Global Publishing, Norway, Scandinavia | 0 |

Nextory is claiming to be the second largest digital books service in Norway and the only...

Sesamy, Sweden’s antidote to subscription, pulls in $5 million for European expansion to fix a problem that doesn’t exist elsewhere

by Mark Williams | May 2, 2021 | Digital subscription, Europe, Global Publishing, Sweden | 0 |

…Outside the Nordics digital books subscription is at best a sideshow right now, and mostly...

Storytel Indonesia likely to launch in Q3 with little or no local-language content but a target audience of 196 million internet users

by Mark Williams | May 1, 2021 | Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Indonesia, S.E. Asia | 0 |

In other Storytel target markets (Bulgaria, Turkey, Israel) Storytel has been able to buy out...

Spotify hits 158 million subscribers in Q1. MAU’s reach 356 million. Publishers continue to struggle with the idea consumers want subscription

by Mark Williams | Apr 29, 2021 | Digital subscription, Global Publishing, The global book market | 0 |

Just how many music, film and other subscription services are authors and publishers using daily...

As the print-digital gap narrows to just £0.4 billion, UK Publishers Association declares ebooks the new Voldermort: The format that shall not be named

by Mark Williams | Apr 28, 2021 | Global Publishing, UK | 0 |

Per Lotinga’s theory, with all the extra time to binge on Netflix and Disney Plus, play games on...

Big Bad Wolf goes hybrid in Malaysia, online in Sri Lanka as demand for English-language books grows. Publishers look the other way

by Mark Williams | Apr 27, 2021 | Big Bad Wolf sale, Global Publishing, Malaysia, Sri Lanka | 0 |

Publishing has for so long managed on the axiom that, “if it just about works, no matter how...

Wattpad authors have earned over $1 million in the past 2 years from Wattpad Paid Stories

by Mark Williams | Apr 26, 2021 | Global Publishing, Wattpad | 0 |

Authors who want to make quick money are better off with regular self-publishing options, but of...

Apple’s podcast subscription service will pay creators 70% rising to 85% of creator-set subscription price

by Mark Williams | Apr 21, 2021 | Digital subscription, podcasting, USA | 0 |

With each passing day the digital subscription model engrains itself more and more in the world’s...

In June 2020 half the NY Times paperback bestseller list came from Ingram’s print on demand service – Mike Shatzkin

by Mark Williams | Apr 21, 2021 | Print, The global book market, USA | 0 |

POD is an exciting prospect for the global book markets and will come into its own in this coming...

BookBeat Q1 revenue up 45% YOY. Subscribers up 66%. The runaway digital subscription train shows no sign of slowing

by Mark Williams | Apr 18, 2021 | Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Sweden | 0 |

“We have never experienced such a high influx of new users at the beginning of a year as in 2021”...

Be afraid. Be just a tiny bit afraid. TikTok owner ByteDance targets 3-fold growth in 2021

by Mark Williams | Apr 18, 2021 | AI, Audiobooks, China, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Global Publishing | 0 |

One thing we all need to understand is that AI-produced content doesn’t have to be perfect to be...

London Book Fair won’t refund exhibitors this year as it admits defeat and pivots to digital. Will publishers ever trust LBF again?

by Mark Williams | Apr 16, 2021 | Book Fairs, Europe, UK | 0 |

In other words, we haven’t a clue yet what we’ll be doing, because we are only doing this digital...

Amazon finally enters the online reading field, but Kindle Vella looks to be a half-hearted effort rushed out to be a spoiler for China Lit’s North America push

by Mark Williams | Apr 15, 2021 | Amazon, Mobile publishing, North America | 0 |

Safe to say a lucky few authors will do very well from Kindle Vella, and Amazon will make a big...

South Korea’s Kakao plans to buy Radish for $354 million. Another wake-up call for publishers who don’t “get” online reading

by Mark Williams | Apr 12, 2021 | Global Publishing, Micro-Fiction, Mobile publishing, South Korea | 1 |

Radish has over 30 original series that together have delivered over 6,500 episodes, bringing in...

Start the Day Global: Argentina, Qatar, Greece, Israel, Sri Lanka

by Mark Williams | Apr 12, 2021 | Argentina, Global Publishing, Greece, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Uncategorized | 0 |

Publishing news in brief from around the world. Greece / Qatar Greece will participate in the Doha...

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South Korea’s Kakao spends $950 million to acquire Tapas and Radish. Plans launches in Thailand, Taiwan, India and China as the online reading market heats up

Nextory launches in 8th market, Norway, with 270,000 ebook and audiobook titles

USA’s AAP numbers shows print and digital formats all doing well, but the digital numbers only tell a partial story

Since Jan 2018 the Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service has paid out over $1 billion in royalties to indie authors

Colombia’s pandemic-driven online book sales boom

Turkey the fastest-growing of Storytel’s 25 markets, up 112% in 2020. But can Storytel global revenue keep up with expectations?

South Korea’s Kakao spends $950 million to acquire Tapas and Radish. Plans launches in Thailand, Taiwan, India and China as the online reading market heats up

Colombia’s pandemic-driven online book sales boom

Since Jan 2018 the Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service has paid out over $1 billion in royalties to indie authors

USA’s AAP numbers shows print and digital formats all doing well, but the digital numbers only tell a partial story

Nextory launches in 8th market, Norway, with 270,000 ebook and audiobook titles

Sesamy, Sweden’s antidote to subscription, pulls in $5 million for European expansion to fix a problem that doesn’t exist elsewhere

Storytel Indonesia likely to launch in Q3 with little or no local-language content but a target audience of 196 million internet users

Spotify hits 158 million subscribers in Q1. MAU’s reach 356 million. Publishers continue to struggle with the idea consumers want subscription

As the print-digital gap narrows to just £0.4 billion, UK Publishers Association declares ebooks the new Voldermort: The format that shall not be named

Big Bad Wolf goes hybrid in Malaysia, online in Sri Lanka as demand for English-language books grows. Publishers look the other way

Wattpad authors have earned over $1 million in the past 2 years from Wattpad Paid Stories

Apple’s podcast subscription service will pay creators 70% rising to 85% of creator-set subscription price

In June 2020 half the NY Times paperback bestseller list came from Ingram’s print on demand service – Mike Shatzkin

BookBeat Q1 revenue up 45% YOY. Subscribers up 66%. The runaway digital subscription train shows no sign of slowing

Be afraid. Be just a tiny bit afraid. TikTok owner ByteDance targets 3-fold growth in 2021

London Book Fair won’t refund exhibitors this year as it admits defeat and pivots to digital. Will publishers ever trust LBF again?

Amazon finally enters the online reading field, but Kindle Vella looks to be a half-hearted effort rushed out to be a spoiler for China Lit’s North America push

South Korea’s Kakao plans to buy Radish for $354 million. Another wake-up call for publishers who don’t “get” online reading

Start the Day Global: Argentina, Qatar, Greece, Israel, Sri Lanka

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