Category: Digital Audio
As Spotify audiobooks launches in more à la carte markets, Kobo joins Audible in bucking the industry-imagined all-you-can-eat-is-history trend
Self-fulfilling prophecies are the new black in publishing. You may have heard the one about...
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Do UK 18-24 year-olds have secret access to Spotify’s not-yet-launched audiobooks platform?
“18 to 24-year-olds were found to be more likely to use non-Amazon retailers compared to...
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Amazon adds 98 million music titles to Prime. Publishers should be worried
It’s not rocket science to see where this might be heading. We can safely assume the 98...
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As Storytel, Nextory and BookBeat pursue limited consumption strategies, Audible doubles down on unlimited
1,300 unlimited-access titles is of course a drop in the Audible France ocean, but this is part of...
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BookBeat launches in Spain and Italy. Storytel and Nextory report notional growth amid acquisition speculation
Any acquisition of Storytel is for now just speculation, but there are only two likely contenders...
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Storytel launches in France with tiered access and a headline that mentions neither
No unlimited subscription on offer here, but that’s a reflection of French publishing rather...
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Spotify’s “game-changer” – just the first ripples of the seismic shift in the publishing landscape that began in 2020
TNPS August 2020: “While the ripples won’t be felt for some time, we are witnessing a...
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Recommended reading: Norway – Digital subscription and short children’s books
TNPS readers say they often miss the many short posts I put out on LinkedIn each day, that are...
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USA – The top podcast genre chart for Q2 2022
For book publishers insights like these can be invaluable in helping target audiences as...
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Podcast platform Podimo launches in Finland amid exponential audio growth
With its wider focus on audio rather than just podcasts, Podimo needs now to be counted alongside...
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International expansion back on the agenda at Storytel. Will it now follow the BookBeat model, only bigger and better?
For the first time since February I’m feeling optimistic about Storytel again – MW When...
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As printing costs soar in Bangladesh, few publishers seem aware there are 130 million people online
The tragedy is many publishers will fail this coming year as print prices for consumers spiral out...
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