Category: Digital Audio
Singapore, population 5.9 million, saw 8 million downloads from OverDrive in2021, equalling Los Angeles, and beaten only by Toronto as 121 libraries exceeded 1 million digital downloads
All told OverDrive saw 506 million downloads in 2021, mostly in North America, and of course none...
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Audiobook sales soared 93% on Taiwan’s Reedmoo in 2021
While audiobook demand increased 93%, per headline, this was actually beaten by both novels and...
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2021 revenue up 20%, subscribers up 22%. Storytel set to launch in Indonesia in Q1. 50,000 free subscriptions on offer in UAE
For now the Nordics region continues to provide the bulk of revenue and subscriber numbers, with...
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Expect a price war in Norway’s streaming market as BookBeat finally launches, with more countries promised
BookBeat CEO Niclas Sandin, for all his bold ambitions and aspirations, has his hands tied by...
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Will Storytel Indonesia launch at IIBF this week?
I half-expected to maybe see Storytel on the Indonesia International Book Fair sponsor list, but...
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Mark Williams At Large – Recommended Reading w/e 4 December 2021
So many stories of interest to the publishing industry cross my desk every day that make a tweet...
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Nextory-owned Youboox launches Switch, a “new” format that combines ebook and audiobook. Let’s call it an audio ebook
Given Youboox was acquired by Sweden-based Nextory in October it seems a safe bet we will see this...
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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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2030 audio market projection hits $50 billion as Podimo brings in $78 million in fresh funding
The latest forecast, from Denmark-based podcasting platform Podimo, projects a 2030 audio market...
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As German-owned PRH is trying to spend $2 billion on S&S, PRH CEO calls out Swedish “Big Bucks flowing into the US publishing industry”
And Dohle further asserts PRH is “channel agnostic” even as it has pulled all PRH...
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Spotify’s paid podcast subscription service expands to 34 markets. Will authors and publishers rise to the opportunity?
But for podcasts, where traditionally there has been no royalties, just promotional payback, it’s...
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