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Podcastle attracts $7 million in fresh funding for its AI-driven podcast production platform

Oct 5, 2021 | Digital Audio, podcasting, Publishing Brief

The same AI tools that make the podcast market so exciting are of course also applicable to...

Storytel Q3 sees Non-Nordic subscribers rise 53%, streaming revenue up 42%. Now fields a catalogue of 700,000 titles

Oct 8, 2021 | Audiobooks, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Storytel, Sweden
Riyadh International Book Fair hosts Saudi Arabia’s first ever Publishers Conference today

Oct 3, 2021 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Middle East, Saudi Arabia
Nextory subscribers up 68% in Q3, with strong growth in new markets Norway and Spain

Oct 7, 2021 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Global Publishing, Sweden
BookBeat Q3 subscribers up 47% percent. Revenue up 39% Q1-Q3. Targets 600,000 paying users by end 2021

Oct 8, 2021 | Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Sweden

Lithuania’s Vilnius Int. Book Fair returns in Feb ‘22

by Mark Williams | Oct 19, 2021 | Book Fairs, Europe, Global Publishing, Lithuania | 0 |

“People who never cared about books have started to read.” It’s still early days, and things...

With the acquisition of Youboox, Nextory blazes a trail beyond Storytel’s shadow

by Mark Williams | Oct 13, 2021 | Digital subscription, Europe, France, Sweden | 0 |

The big story here is not catalogue size but rather the seismic shift in Nextory’s expansion...

Norway’s unlimited subscription market was worth $50 million in 2020 – in a country of just 5.4 million people

by Mark Williams | Oct 11, 2021 | Digital subscription, Norway, Scandinavia, Storytel | 0 |

With just 5.4 million people Norway is significantly smaller than cities like London or New York,...

Saudi Arabia publishing’s “very exciting time” as CUP returns to SA and IPA President Al Qasimi talks of the Arab Renaissance

by Mark Williams | Oct 10, 2021 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Middle East, Saudi Arabia | 0 |

“It is a very exciting time for the kingdom and the literary and publishing sector. The theme for this year’s event, “New Destination, New Chapter”, reflects Saudi Arabia’s ambitions to elevate the...

Russia audiobook market grows 4X in 2021. “The next five years will be the most successful in the history of audiobooks” – Boris Makarenkov, Storytel RU

by Mark Williams | Oct 10, 2021 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Russia, Storytel | 0 |

The subscription-retail balance suggests that, when price friction is eliminated, audiobook...

BookBeat Q3 subscribers up 47% percent. Revenue up 39% Q1-Q3. Targets 600,000 paying users by end 2021

by Mark Williams | Oct 8, 2021 | Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Sweden | 0 |

“We saw strong growth before the pandemic, we saw strong growth during the pandemic and now...

Storytel Q3 sees Non-Nordic subscribers rise 53%, streaming revenue up 42%. Now fields a catalogue of 700,000 titles

by Mark Williams | Oct 8, 2021 | Audiobooks, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Storytel, Sweden | 0 |

But the wider Storytel markets, while not yet delivering at the Nordics level, is where the...

Nextory subscribers up 68% in Q3, with strong growth in new markets Norway and Spain

by Mark Williams | Oct 7, 2021 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Global Publishing, Sweden | 0 |

Further European expansion in 2020 is a given, but the litmus test for Nextory’s role as pretender...

Podcastle attracts $7 million in fresh funding for its AI-driven podcast production platform

by Mark Williams | Oct 5, 2021 | Digital Audio, podcasting, Publishing Brief | 1 |

The same AI tools that make the podcast market so exciting are of course also applicable to...

Riyadh International Book Fair hosts Saudi Arabia’s first ever Publishers Conference today

by Mark Williams | Oct 3, 2021 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Middle East, Saudi Arabia | 0 |

Having clocked 1 million visitors in 2019, the Riyadh fair was cancelled by the Pandemic in 2020,...

Philippines Manila International Book Fair completes its 2nd online incarnation today

by Mark Williams | Oct 3, 2021 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Philippines, S.E. Asia | 0 |

For now the Philippines book market is depressed by the Pandemic and it seems neither domestic nor...

Final Reminder – APA-TNPS Webinair: the Global Audio Market (Sept 29)

by Mark Williams | Sep 28, 2021 | Audiobooks, Global Publishing | 0 |

Free to view. TNPS will be presenting on the opportunities in the global audio market. September...

APA-TNPS Webinair: the Global Audio Market

by Mark Williams | Sep 27, 2021 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Global Publishing | 0 |

Free to view. TNPS will be presenting on the opportunities in the global audio market. September...

Spain’s Madrid Book Fair takes an 80% visitor hit but only drops 10% in book sales amid the Pandemic

by Mark Williams | Sep 27, 2021 | Book Fairs, Europe, Global Publishing, Spain | 0 |

Maybe the event organisers need to look at what they were doing right this year to see such...

Bloomsbury acquires video streaming service, saying “streaming is a core strand in our strategic growth plans”

by Mark Williams | Sep 26, 2021 | Film & TV, Publishing Brief, UK | 0 |

“Streaming has been gaining considerable institutional traction and, as a logical outcome of...

Jordan’s 20th Amman International Book Fair underway

by Mark Williams | Sep 26, 2021 | Book Fairs, Jordan, Middle East | 0 |

This year the fair is part of the nation’s centenary celebrations as Jordan marks one hundred...

Start the Day Global – essential industry reading from around the world

by Mark Williams | Sep 26, 2021 | bookstores, China, Global Publishing, India, Qatar, USA | 0 |

As the monsoon season draws to a close here in West Africa hopes rise that TNPS can get back on...

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 | 2 |

…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...

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Podcastle attracts $7 million in fresh funding for its AI-driven podcast production platform

Storytel Q3 sees Non-Nordic subscribers rise 53%, streaming revenue up 42%. Now fields a catalogue of 700,000 titles

Riyadh International Book Fair hosts Saudi Arabia’s first ever Publishers Conference today

Nextory subscribers up 68% in Q3, with strong growth in new markets Norway and Spain

BookBeat Q3 subscribers up 47% percent. Revenue up 39% Q1-Q3. Targets 600,000 paying users by end 2021

Lithuania’s Vilnius Int. Book Fair returns in Feb ‘22

With the acquisition of Youboox, Nextory blazes a trail beyond Storytel’s shadow

Norway’s unlimited subscription market was worth $50 million in 2020 – in a country of just 5.4 million people

Saudi Arabia publishing’s “very exciting time” as CUP returns to SA and IPA President Al Qasimi talks of the Arab Renaissance

Russia audiobook market grows 4X in 2021. “The next five years will be the most successful in the history of audiobooks” – Boris Makarenkov, Storytel RU

BookBeat Q3 subscribers up 47% percent. Revenue up 39% Q1-Q3. Targets 600,000 paying users by end 2021

Storytel Q3 sees Non-Nordic subscribers rise 53%, streaming revenue up 42%. Now fields a catalogue of 700,000 titles

Nextory subscribers up 68% in Q3, with strong growth in new markets Norway and Spain

Podcastle attracts $7 million in fresh funding for its AI-driven podcast production platform

Riyadh International Book Fair hosts Saudi Arabia’s first ever Publishers Conference today

Philippines Manila International Book Fair completes its 2nd online incarnation today

Final Reminder – APA-TNPS Webinair: the Global Audio Market (Sept 29)

APA-TNPS Webinair: the Global Audio Market

Spain’s Madrid Book Fair takes an 80% visitor hit but only drops 10% in book sales amid the Pandemic

Bloomsbury acquires video streaming service, saying “streaming is a core strand in our strategic growth plans”

Jordan’s 20th Amman International Book Fair underway

Start the Day Global – essential industry reading from around the world

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…

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