Japan shows world’s publishers how to deal with IP pirates: Lock ‘em up!
Copyright theft is theft, pure and simple, but exaggerating the losses and exaggerating the threat...
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Nextory could leap Storytel and Audible to be Spain’s #1 subscription service this year after Nubico acquisition
With the Nubico acquisition the rivalry between Sweden’s Storytel and Nextory just moved to a...
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Urban Publishing Myths: Bookstore closures hurt frontlist sales
Seriously? It’s taken a pandemic to make publishers realise that marketing can be done online? No...
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Japan shows world’s publishers how to deal with IP pirates: Lock ‘em up!
Copyright theft is theft, pure and simple, but exaggerating the losses and exaggerating the threat...
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China’s 1 billion internet users underpin the Beijing International Book Fair this year
With one billion internet users it’s no surprise that China is ahead of the game. Publishers...
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Bookwire Brazil’s Bok2 acquisition reflects POD’s growing role in the global book markets that publishers should be studying carefully
POD is an exciting prospect for the global book markets and will come into its own in this coming...
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US audiobook consumption in 2020 rose 12% rise. How much more if unlimited subscription was an option?
One wonders just how many of the publishing industry’s decision makers that willfully object to...
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The AAP’s latest US publishing revenue figures leave tens of millions of dollars in ebook revenue uncounted
We simply don’t know the true scale of the impact ebooks have on the US and global book markets,...
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Amazon buys IP treasure trove. Gets MGM film studio and place in Hollywood history into the bargain
We can be certain the team at Amazon Publishing and Audible will be salivating at the prospect of...
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Storytel’s partnership with Spotify unlocks a back door to the Holy Grail that is the US audiobook market
Unlimited digital books subscription in the US and other mature English-language markets is not a...
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“A blended field … Digital now part of our day-to-day thinking and planning” – Philip Jones, The Bookseller
Online sales are the enemy, and those readers who erred from the true path of righteousness and...
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Turkey the fastest-growing of Storytel’s 25 markets, up 112% in 2020. But can Storytel global revenue keep up with expectations?
Sweden charges $20 a month. Compare Turkey where charging $4.20 brings only 21% of the Sweden...
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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
Tapas revenue increased ten-fold in 2020. Radish revenue increased fivefold in 2020. Less than a...
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Colombia’s pandemic-driven online book sales boom
Does that mean print is stil king? Of course, but what really matters is how consumers will...
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Since Jan 2018 the Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service has paid out over $1 billion in royalties to indie authors
The invisible ebook market redux: the ebook market is bigger than we realise, and subscription...
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USA’s AAP numbers shows print and digital formats all doing well, but the digital numbers only tell a partial story
And then there’s ebooks, where we can safely say the AAP numbers are at best indicative, but miss...
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Nextory launches in 8th market, Norway, with 270,000 ebook and audiobook titles
Nextory is claiming to be the second largest digital books service in Norway and the only...
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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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Storytel Indonesia likely to launch in Q3 with little or no local-language content but a target audience of 196 million internet users
In other Storytel target markets (Bulgaria, Turkey, Israel) Storytel has been able to buy out...
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Spotify hits 158 million subscribers in Q1. MAU’s reach 356 million. Publishers continue to struggle with the idea consumers want subscription
Just how many music, film and other subscription services are authors and publishers using daily...
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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
Per Lotinga’s theory, with all the extra time to binge on Netflix and Disney Plus, play games on...
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