Norway’s unlimited subscription market was worth $50 million in 2020 – in a country of just 5.4 million people
With just 5.4 million people Norway is significantly smaller than cities like London or New York,...
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Author: Mark Williams
Saudi Arabia publishing’s “very exciting time” as CUP returns to SA and IPA President Al Qasimi talks of the Arab Renaissance
“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...
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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
The subscription-retail balance suggests that, when price friction is eliminated, audiobook...
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BookBeat Q3 subscribers up 47% percent. Revenue up 39% Q1-Q3. Targets 600,000 paying users by end 2021
“We saw strong growth before the pandemic, we saw strong growth during the pandemic and now...
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Storytel Q3 sees Non-Nordic subscribers rise 53%, streaming revenue up 42%. Now fields a catalogue of 700,000 titles
But the wider Storytel markets, while not yet delivering at the Nordics level, is where the...
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