Category: Digital Audio
While PRH sits on its subscription plans, another Nordic publisher launches its own subscription service
Last month we reported here on a Boktugg news item suggesting the world’s biggest trade...
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RBmedia announces “record-breaking growth.” RBMedia’s Audiobooks.com app exceeds 2 million downloads and 14 million hours of listening
RBmedia, owned by KKR, the hedge-fund management team in the process of acquiring RBMedia’s bigger...
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The latest edition of the StreetLib-TNPS B2B newsletter Publish MENA is live
A major breakdown with the submarine cable connecting West Africa and Europe caused serious...
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The TNPS Week In Review: January 12-18
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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Penguin Random House pulls English-language titles from Storytel, Bookbeat and Nextory. Unhappy with terms? Or is a PRH streaming service launch imminent?
A few days ago it emerged PRH titles were disappearing from the Storytel, Nextory and Bookbeat...
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Amazon’s Audible and US audiobook publishers reach settlement in captions dispute
Not much detail on this story as yet, but it seems Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook service,...
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40 markets by 2023. 1.5 million subscribers, $200 million revenue by end 2020. Sweden’s Storytel gets into second gear
The West African internet gods are in fickle mood today, so just a summary here of what is...
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The TNPS Week In Review: January 5-11
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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Sweden’s Bookbeat reports an “incredible” 2019, with 114% growth, $33 million revenue, over 250,0000 subscribers
After 110% growth in 2018 Bookbeat has upped its game in 2019 with 114% growth reported across its...
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Storytel Turkey saw a 315% rise in audiobook consumption in 2019. Aims to grow 50% in 2020
4,054,400 hours of audiobook consumption happened on the Storytel Turkey platform last year, an...
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Storytel hits 1.1 million subscriber target, sees Q4 revenue rise 45%. Annual subscriber growth up 40% overall. Non-Nordic subscribers up 114%
As Storytel notches up yet another bag of exceeded targets, revenue increases and year on year...
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OverDrive demolishes the nonsense that readers have abandoned ebooks for audiobooks as 2019 breaks records for both, adding to uncertainty about Kobo's future
We’ve heard it so many times its hard not to start believing it. Screen fatigue is driving...
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