Category: Digital Audio
Belgium becomes 21st market for Sweden’s Storytel. Thailand still to come this year
Storytel Belgium launches with 250,000 titles, but only a handful are in Dutch, and even fewer in...
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Germany’s Bookwire acquires readbox in a “value-generating collaboration”
“’Value-generating collaborations’ are the defining keywords of our time”...
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iHeartMedia to acquire Voxnest in seismic shake-up of the podcasting arena, delivering new opportunities for publishers
Despite more than 100 million Americans listening to a podcast every month, podcast creators and...
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Bookwire: ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts do not cannibalise, but act in a “mutually reinforcing manner”
Ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts have become mainstream. Ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts are...
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The dam has been breached! Amazon’s Audible launches an unlimited audiobook subscription service in Spain. How long now before Audible rolls out the model in the US?
As and when Amazon decides that Audible shall become an unlimited audiobook subscription service...
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Storytel acquires Hebrew audiobook outfit iCast. To launch in Israel in Q1 2021
Storytel confirms Israel as its third new target market, along with Indonesia and Thailand, as it...
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Harry Potter premieres as a Bulgarian audiobook series exclusively on Storytel
For many publishers these small one-language countries attract very little interest. Their loss....
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Penguin UK’s audio-study guides for A-Level is a move emerging market publishers might productively improve upon
We are just skimming the surface of what’s possible with digital books, and while the emerging...
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Spotify’s move into audiobooks is a seismic shift in the publishing landscape, but the ripples will take time to be felt
Can Spotify dominate the audiobook scene in the same way it has music? No is the simple answer....
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Storytel KR grows 2.5 times against fierce competition during pandemic as South Korea audiobook market expands
With an estimated value between 200 bn – 300 bn won ($167 m – $250 m) the Korean...
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StreetLib expands its distribution with 4 new partners and adds audiobook distribution to Scribd
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a StreetLib...
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Storytel buys Arabic audiobook subscription service Kitab Sawti. CEO Sebastian Bond to lead a new regional operation, Storytel MENA
Originating in Sweden in 2016, Kitab Sawti has been a leading force in Arabic-language audiobooks,...
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