Word Audio Publishing International (WAPI) partners with StreetLib
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a StreetLib...
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Category: Audiobooks
Sweden’s audiobook subscription service Bokus Play to carry ebooks, launch own e-reader
While audiobooks tend to dominate the headlines about digital books streaming, most subscription...
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Sweden’s Nextory collects $6 million in new funding for European expansion amid “fantastic growth” in audiobook and ebook subscription
Already in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Nextory CEO Shadi Bitar has...
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PublishDrive the first US-based aggregator to offer ebooks, audiobook and POD distribution
This past week the indie-friendly aggregator PublishDrive became the first in the US to offer...
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Germany’s Bookwire grew sales by 35% in 2019. 140% growth in audio; ebooks up 24%
As a digital publishing company Frankfurt-based Bookwire, with offices in Madrid, Mexico City and...
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Denmark’s Saga Egmont becomes Spain’s largest audiobook publisher on Audiomol-catalogue acquisition
Copenhagen-based Saga Egmont famously insists that all publisher’s books must be present in...
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Sweden’s Norstedts Förlagsgrupp sees digital revenues up 41% in 2019, with 50% from digital and 25% of that from audio
Norstedts, one of Sweden’s largest publishing houses, had its best turnover since 2013 thanks to...
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Storytel raises $96.5 million in new funding. A vote of confidence in the unlimited subscription model, not just the company
In a heavily oversubscribed surprise share issue late Thursday, Storytel raised SEK 948 million...
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Storytel Brazil partners with Bookwire to expand Storytel’s ebook catalogue as 2020 shapes up to be the year of digital subscription
Sweden-based Storytel launched in Brazil at end 2019 with an impressive catalogue of audiobooks,...
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Following an “incredible” 2019, Sweden’s Bookbeat preps fifth market with Denmark launch planned
There’s a widespread belief in the US publishing industry that micro-markets – that is...
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Judge rejects Audible’s and publishers’ request to keep Captions settlement secret
Per previous commentary on this topic, the US lawsuit between Amazon-owned Audible and a group of...
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Amazon’s Audible “prohibited from creating, generating, reproducing, modifying, distributing, publishing, or displaying” captions without publisher agreement
While this is a US story and not one that would normally be within the remit of TNPS to cover, the...
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