Google Play Books Expands AI Audiobook Narration – maybe
No, AI narration will not put competent real-life narrators out of jobs any time soon, if ever....
One tenth of Sweden’s population now has an audiobook subscription
In the mature English-language markets, where unlimited subscription is still a dirty word,...
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US print sales fall another 6% as the Q1 declines continue into Q2
Perhaps the man with most cause for concern will be James Daunt, the Atlantic-straddling CEO of...
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Facebook abandons podcasts, but no the podcasting sky is not falling
One might think, in a world of real doom and gloom, death and destruction, that there was no need...
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Arab book market focus: Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival 2022 (UAE)
The Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival is one of the biggest children’s literary events in the...
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Will Snap CEO’s dismissal of the Metaverse come back to haunt him?
But isn’t “pretty ambiguous and hypothetical” exactly how we would have...
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Google Play Books Expands AI Audiobook Narration – maybe
No, AI narration will not put competent real-life narrators out of jobs any time soon, if ever....
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Registration opens for hybrid Nigeria International Book Fair
Nigeria and other national publishing events organisers across sub-Saharan Africa would do well to...
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Japan’s biggest audiobook service now offers a tandem unlimited and credit model to appeal to more consumers
At the consumer level the unlimited consumption model for a fixed monthly fee has enormous appeal,...
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Nextory’s 69% subscriber growth in Q1 may not be as impressive as at first appears
Nextory is said to be considering an IPO for the company, although in the light of recent...
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Reimagined Toy Fair New York postponed until 2023. Lessons for the publishing industry
The industry is in danger of sleepwalking into the next crises (plural, and likely many), some of...
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Botswana – Gaborone Book Festival dates announced
One of southern Africa’s biggest publishing events will be hybrid this year. The Gaborone...
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Romania’s streaming start-up Voxa targets EUR 1 million and international expansion in 2022
If Voxa can expand its markets following its current strategies of pursuing both public and...
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Qatar’s first Ramadan Book Fair underway as Arab book fair season attracts millions in Q1 2022
It will be after the summer that we begin to put together exactly how big is the book fair...
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YouTube plans “tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts”
For book publishers the message should be clear – audiobooks are a major asset but podcasts...
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Storytel streaming revenue hits $74 million in Q1, tops 2 million subscribers, but few signs for optimism globally
Unless a major opportunity to enter a mature market comes along akin to the Audiobooks.com...
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Big Bad Wolf’s extended Bangkok sale ends. Returns to Dubai this month
Those new to TNPS may be wondering if Big Bad Wolf has lost the plot taking a million...
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Substack poaches Patreon podcasts as it joins the race for a place in the paid podcasting arena
The one thing we can say with certainty is that paid-podcasting is here to stay, and is going to...
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As print sales plummet 20%, industry says print fatigue is to blame
Imagine for one second that it was ebook sales that had precipitously dropped 20% in the past week...
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Thailand’s National and International Book Fairs underway as Big Bad Wolf winds up its Bangkok event
The 50th National Book Fair and the 20th Bangkok International Book Fair are still underway in...
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Algiers Int. Book Fair clocks 1.3 million in-person visitors and a digital success too
Running March 24 through 31 the eight day event averaged over 160,000 in-person visitors per day....
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