Category: Audiobooks
As Spotify audiobooks launches in more à la carte markets, Kobo joins Audible in bucking the industry-imagined all-you-can-eat-is-history trend
Self-fulfilling prophecies are the new black in publishing. You may have heard the one about...
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Do UK 18-24 year-olds have secret access to Spotify’s not-yet-launched audiobooks platform?
“18 to 24-year-olds were found to be more likely to use non-Amazon retailers compared to...
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Amazon adds 98 million music titles to Prime. Publishers should be worried
It’s not rocket science to see where this might be heading. We can safely assume the 98...
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BookBeat launches in Spain and Italy. Storytel and Nextory report notional growth amid acquisition speculation
Any acquisition of Storytel is for now just speculation, but there are only two likely contenders...
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FYI – Frankfurt Buchmesse Professional Programme 2022: Masterclasses on TikTok, Audiobooks and Distribution
From the Buchmesse newsletter Using AI to create audiobooks, communicating with the fan community...
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Storytel launches in France with tiered access and a headline that mentions neither
No unlimited subscription on offer here, but that’s a reflection of French publishing rather...
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Spotify’s “game-changer” – just the first ripples of the seismic shift in the publishing landscape that began in 2020
TNPS August 2020: “While the ripples won’t be felt for some time, we are witnessing a...
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Romania – Cărturești bookstore chain invests 450,000 euros in AudioTribe
The Cărturești cash injection will allow AudioTribe to expand its four audio studios with a target...
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Spotify paid $123 million for Findaway
IN BRIEF Since the announcement of intent last November Spotify and Findaway have kept quite about...
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The Constipated Audiobook Market. About those scam publishing industry reports masquerading as research that cost $3,000
Now this is exactly why we need to hand over that $2,900 this very instant. This is seriously,...
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One tenth of Sweden’s population now has an audiobook subscription
In the mature English-language markets, where unlimited subscription is still a dirty word,...
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Google Play Books Expands AI Audiobook Narration – maybe
No, AI narration will not put competent real-life narrators out of jobs any time soon, if ever....
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