Category: Audible
Storytel launches in South Korea. 19 markets / 20 territories. And counting…
Welcome to the 1,000th post here on TNPS and, rather appropriately, a topic that is a regular...
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Publish Global, the StreetLib-TNPS B2B newsletter for self-publishers, is hitting inboxes this weekend
The first issue of the new B2B newsletter for self-publishers, Publish Global – serious...
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Storytel adds 127k subscribers in Q3. Revenue up 43% in the 4th streaming success story this month. US and UK publishers look the other way
The silence is deafening. While Bookbeat, Nextory, YouScribe and now Storytel and Ubook deliver...
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Self-published authors can now upload their audiobooks direct to Kobo via Kobo Writing Life
It wasn’t so long ago that if you were a self-publisher and wanted to get some of the audiobook...
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Audible UK doubles profit as audiobook sales slow in 2018. But claims the ebook bubble has burst is just wishful thinking from the UK Booksellers Association
After a 47% increase in sales in 2017, Amazon-owned Audible UK saw a rise in sales of only 38% in...
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Publish MENA – the digital advantage #3 is now available
The joint StreetLib-TNPS bi-weekly newsletter Publish MENA – the digital...
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“People who buy audiobooks buy more print books than people who don’t buy audiobooks” – Audible
Variety this week carries the news that Amazon’s Audible is hiring top Hollywood names to narrate...
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Storytel’s subscription royalties rose 6.4% in Q2. But is $0.20 per hour enough to keep publishers happy? Does the subscription model have a future?
At the start of this year Storytel changed its remuneration model for publishers, from a fixed...
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As OverDrive’s Libby partners with Apple’s CarPlay, how long before publishers start reigning in digital library audiobooks?
Thanks to a deal between Apple and Rakuten-OverDrive, the digital library app Libby is now...
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Storytel marks its first year in Italy with a tripled catalogue size and an Originals launch
It’s one year since Storytel went head to head with Amazon’s Audible in Italy, and so far Storytel...
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In the audiobook market stakes, Bookbeat takes a surprise lead, adding 24 markets. Total 28. But this isn’t a gamechanger yet
With just 50,000 titles Bonnier’s Bookbeat is no match for Audible or Storytel in volume terms,...
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Storytel launches in Germany, leaving Brazil, Thailand and South Korea to come for 2019
After the launch in Singapore earlier this year, Storytel was widely expected to follow through...
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