Category: Audiobooks
UK audiobook revenue up 71% on 2019. Ebooks up 10%. Consumer print up 6%. Children’s digital up 26%. Digital consumer non-fiction up 30%
Given both Findaway and Audiobooks.com impact on the UK market; and given Spotify is already a...
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Add another $577,000 in new funding to the sums flooding into global digital audio publishing this year. This time it’s Turkey’s Dinlebi
With competition from deep-pocketed foreign players like Poland’s Audioteka and Sweden’s Storytel...
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TNPS SPECIAL REPORT – Seismic Shifts 1: Storytel enters the English-language markets (Analysis)
Tellander is under no illusion that he must, for the immediate future, work with the credit system...
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Storytel acquires Audiobooks.com. Enters English-language markets in style
A full TNPS analysis of the Storytel acquisition of Audiobooks.com and what it means for the...
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Spotify acquires Findaway: a seismic shift in the global audiobook landscape
A full TNPS analysis of the Spotify acquisition of Findaway and what it means for the audiobook...
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Kobo Plus unlimited subscription launches in 7th market, Italy, days after Australia and New Zealand launches
Kobo Plus claims to be “the first service in Italy to provide a combined reading and listening...
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Amazon-owned Audible rolls out unlimited subscription in 6th market, India… and counting
The concern for publishers should be that at some point Amazon will simply shift all its markets...
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Russia audiobook market grows 4X in 2021. “The next five years will be the most successful in the history of audiobooks” – Boris Makarenkov, Storytel RU
The subscription-retail balance suggests that, when price friction is eliminated, audiobook...
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Storytel Q3 sees Non-Nordic subscribers rise 53%, streaming revenue up 42%. Now fields a catalogue of 700,000 titles
But the wider Storytel markets, while not yet delivering at the Nordics level, is where the...
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Final Reminder – APA-TNPS Webinair: the Global Audio Market (Sept 29)
Free to view. TNPS will be presenting on the opportunities in the global audio market. September...
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APA-TNPS Webinair: the Global Audio Market
Free to view. TNPS will be presenting on the opportunities in the global audio market. September...
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AI audiobooks take a big step towards the audio New Normal with DeepZen Ingram partnership
…The global audiobook market could be poised to reach heights few in the industry today...
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