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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Author: Mark Williams
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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Big Bad Wolf goes hybrid in Malaysia, online in Sri Lanka as demand for English-language books grows. Publishers look the other way
Publishing has for so long managed on the axiom that, “if it just about works, no matter how...
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