Category: Audiobooks
Amazon-owned Audible’s unlimited subscription now in five markets. And counting…
But can anyone seriously imagine PRH taking the moral high ground and pulling its titles when (not...
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With 25 million audiobook consumers, India takes third place behind USA and China. Might Storytel be eyeing an acquisition?
Audible and Storytel are the biggest foreign players in the Indian audiobook market, but keep an...
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Storytel and Tocalivros partner to boost the Brazil audiobook market
Sweden’s Storytel and Brazil’s Tocalivros have decided that partnering for market share might be a...
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The classic chicken and egg publishing problem the Nordics know the solution to
It wasn’t so very long ago when there was no audiobook market in the Nordics. The reason was...
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SAGA Egmont is now Germany’s largest audiobook publisher
“Untapped potential for authors and publishers.” That’s the sweet spot where digital and global...
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The SAGA Egmont – Roca Editorial audiobook partnership demonstrates the digital advantage for publishers everywhere
The bigger picture here is how a publisher in Denmark, a “minor-language” country with a...
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Sweden-based subscription streaming service BookBeat topped a half million subscribers in Q2. Keeps quiet about BookBeat UK
By keeping BookBeat UK out there despite never warranting a mention in the stream of positive...
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US audiobook consumption in 2020 rose 12% rise. How much more if unlimited subscription was an option?
One wonders just how many of the publishing industry’s decision makers that willfully object to...
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Storytel’s partnership with Spotify unlocks a back door to the Holy Grail that is the US audiobook market
Unlimited digital books subscription in the US and other mature English-language markets is not a...
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Turkey the fastest-growing of Storytel’s 25 markets, up 112% in 2020. But can Storytel global revenue keep up with expectations?
Sweden charges $20 a month. Compare Turkey where charging $4.20 brings only 21% of the Sweden...
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Be afraid. Be just a tiny bit afraid. TikTok owner ByteDance targets 3-fold growth in 2021
One thing we all need to understand is that AI-produced content doesn’t have to be perfect to be...
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Storytel Q1 streaming revenue and subscriber growth “in line with” forecast, but are the headwinds beginning to be felt?
But it is (just one) example of the sort of headwinds Storytel will increasingly face in the...
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