For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a summary of the key stories covered in the past seven days.

Our week began with news of the unexpected revelation of Big Bad Wolf revenues in Myanmar in 2019 as the Big Bad Wolf Yangon 2020 event kicked off.

Big Bad Wolf sold $1.8 million worth of English-language books in 11 days in Myanmar last year. Can it do better in 2020?

From Myanmar to Norway, where the Norwegian Writers Association is concerned authors are missing out on subscription opportunities.

Norwegian Writers Association urges authors to examine their contracts to ensure they are not locked out of subscription services

Turkey enjoyed a good year, with 3.16% growth.

Book publishing in Turkey grew 3.16 percent in 2019

Next came the week’ biggest story – OverDrive’s annual results, and once again ebooks outpaced audiobooks as both formats broke records.

OverDrive demolishes the nonsense that readers have abandoned ebooks for audiobooks as 2019 breaks records for both, adding to uncertainty about Kobo’s future

OverDrive wasn’t the only one breaking records. Storytel kept up the tradition of announcing phenomenal growth.

Storytel hits 1.1 million subscriber target, sees Q4 revenue rise 45%. Annual subscriber growth up 40% overall. Non-Nordic subscribers up 114%

Next we took a break from record-breaking announcements in the subscription streaming sector to take a look at the debut Hay Festival Abu Dhabi.

Hay Festival Abu Dhabi debut set for February as global interest grows in the Arab book markets

And from the UAE to the UK, where the artist formerly known as Data Guy offered us the news that Amazon’s ebook imprints dominated the UK ebook charts.

Data Guy says 70% of the UK’s top ten ebook bestsellers are published by Amazon. Nothing new there. But can Bookstat’s numbers be relied upon?

But this being the first week of the year we were soon back with the record-breaking announcements in the digital book streaming arena.

First, Storytel Turkey saw incredible growth in its consumption levels.

Storytel Turkey saw a 315% rise in audiobook consumption in 2019. Aims to grow 50% in 2020

And back in Sweden Storytel’s rival Bookbeat was reporting 114% growth in revenue and a quarter million subscribers.

Sweden’s Bookbeat reports an “incredible” 2019, with 114% growth, $33 million revenue, over 250,0000 subscribers

After the doom and gloom and feeling of impending disaster that marked the start of the last decade, it’s great to start the new decade on such a positive note, and I see no reason to think this trend won’t continue through the year and into 2021 and beyond.