Category: Audiobooks
Sweden’s Nextory confirms Norway launch for April/May
Three subscription services competing in a market smaller than London? But perhaps we are looking...
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Another nail in Screen Fatigue’s coffin as OverDrive clocks 430 million digital downloads in 2020
Print of course remains king, although bricks & mortar booksellers face existential challenges...
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Storytel India starts its fourth year by adding 9th language, Malayalam, to its India content portfolio
For now at least Storytel would appear to have the upper hand in the India audiobook market, while...
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Sweden’s Nextory launches in 7th market – the Netherlands – with 200,000 titles
The big question is what Shadi Bitar will do next, and if he will be willing to step outside the...
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Sweden’s most popular audiobooks on BookBeat, Nextory and Storytel
What’s most interesting here for those of us outside Sweden is to compare the lists of the...
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Storytel Norway denies rumour it plans to pay publishers by the minute rather than a fixed rate per download
The reality is that while the unlimited subscriber will of course consume more, the service...
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As children’s audio booms in China, the OUP says “China is now one of our fastest-growing and most strategically important markets”
The Oxford University Press picked up 400,000 paying subscribers for an audio series offered on...
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The 17th Thessaloniki International Book Fair is underway – online, of course
Greece does not have an Audible as a market driver. But Greece has streaming services with growing...
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Obama’s new book banned as an audiobook in Sweden – by PRH
To be clear, PRH has not banned the audiobook in Swedish outright, but without revenue from the...
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Quote unquote: “The book market, to stay relevant, needs to embrace the unlimited subscription model” – Jonas Tellander, CEO Storytel
Tellander speaks with the confidence of someone who knows he holds the trump cards for the global...
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UK: Ebooks and audiobooks head for all-time high in 2020. So much for “screen fatigue”
The bottom line is, even with the pandemic, digital books remain a (comparatively) small part of...
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Subscription audio will be more than half of Sweden’s book market by year’s end – Storytel’s Jonas Tellander
Sweden’s book market is now some 60% digital, and it’s only the anticipated Christmas...
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