Category: Digital Audio
Sweden’s Nextory confirms Norway launch for April/May
by Mark Williams | Jan 17, 2021 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Global Publishing, Norway, Scandinavia | 0 |
Three subscription services competing in a market smaller than London? But perhaps we are looking...
Read MoreAnother nail in Screen Fatigue’s coffin as OverDrive clocks 430 million digital downloads in 2020
by Mark Williams | Jan 12, 2021 | Audiobooks, Australia, Canada, Digital Audio, Digital Libraries, Ebooks, Global Publishing, Singapore | 2 |
Print of course remains king, although bricks & mortar booksellers face existential challenges...
Read MoreStorytel India starts its fourth year by adding 9th language, Malayalam, to its India content portfolio
by Mark Williams | Dec 6, 2020 | Audible, Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, India, Storytel, The global book market | 0 |
For now at least Storytel would appear to have the upper hand in the India audiobook market, while...
Read MoreOverDrive hits 366 million digital downloads in first 11 months of 2020, already exceeding the 2019 total by 40 million. So much for screen fatigue and Netflix killing off digital books
by Mark Williams | Dec 3, 2020 | Academic and specialist publishing, Digital Audio, Digital Libraries, Ebooks, Global Publishing, The global book market | 1 |
As we all know ebooks are yesterday’s format thanks to screen fatigue and Netflix, and audiobook...
Read MoreSweden’s Nextory launches in 7th market – the Netherlands – with 200,000 titles
by Mark Williams | Dec 2, 2020 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Global Publishing | 0 |
The big question is what Shadi Bitar will do next, and if he will be willing to step outside the...
Read MoreStorytel Thailand launches on schedule. 22nd market. 4th in APAC. 18 further markets to come by 2023
by Mark Williams | Dec 2, 2020 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Global Publishing, Storytel, Thailand, The global book market | 0 |
As we say goodbye to 2020 it seems like the digital audiobook format, so much the darling of the...
Read MoreSweden’s most popular audiobooks on BookBeat, Nextory and Storytel
by Mark Williams | Nov 30, 2020 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Europe, Global Publishing, Scandinavia, Storytel, Sweden | 0 |
What’s most interesting here for those of us outside Sweden is to compare the lists of the...
Read MoreStorytel Norway denies rumour it plans to pay publishers by the minute rather than a fixed rate per download
by Mark Williams | Nov 27, 2020 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Europe, Global Publishing, Norway, Scandinavia | 0 |
The reality is that while the unlimited subscriber will of course consume more, the service...
Read MoreAs children’s audio booms in China, the OUP says “China is now one of our fastest-growing and most strategically important markets”
by Mark Williams | Nov 27, 2020 | Audiobooks, Book Fairs, China, Digital Audio, Global Publishing | 0 |
The Oxford University Press picked up 400,000 paying subscribers for an audio series offered on...
Read MoreObama’s new book banned as an audiobook in Sweden – by PRH
by Mark Williams | Nov 19, 2020 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Global Publishing, Publishing Controversies, Sweden | 0 |
To be clear, PRH has not banned the audiobook in Swedish outright, but without revenue from the...
Read MoreNielsen survey shows UK audiobooks boom continues with 15.8% unit growth, but no, ebook reading is not on the slide
by Mark Williams | Nov 9, 2020 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Global Publishing, UK | 0 |
It’s worth comparing the £164 million ($215 million) Nielsen forecast for 2020 UK audiobook...
Read MoreBelgium becomes 21st market for Sweden’s Storytel. Thailand still to come this year
by Mark Williams | Oct 28, 2020 | Belgium, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Ebooks, Global Publishing, Netherlands | 0 |
Storytel Belgium launches with 250,000 titles, but only a handful are in Dutch, and even fewer in...
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