Nextory’s continuing shift from growth to profitability
The combined internet user base of the four Nordic countries amounts to 16.2 million. The combined...
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Category: Digital Audio
US Music market share by volume, by genre. Lessons for book publishers
So what happened between 2015-2016 that recalibrated the US music industry and convinced American...
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TV streaming reminds us of the power of the backlist. Yet publishers still look the other way
Because alongside reach and discoverability, data is the big benefit of digital subscription, and...
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Greece – Bookvoice Kids is a new audiobook subscription service for children
Greece – Bookvoice Kids is a new audiobook subscription service for children,...
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1 billion paid subscriptions at Apple
Subscription books remains a no-go area for most book platforms due to publisher resistance as...
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Turkey’s Competition Authority is investigating Storytel
“But each country makes its own laws, and if Turkish law expressly forbids such behaviour,...
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Spotify had 44.4m US subscribers in February, Apple 32.6m, Amazon 23.9m. Lessons for book publishers
Keeping books out of subscription services so the consumer has limited value for money and then...
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HarperCollins India will embrace AI audiobooks – just as soon as the right voice comes along
India is still only at 60% internet penetration, but given that equates to 833 million of...
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Storytel Norway stands accused of favouring own content as Amazon rakes in cash from the books and music of its Prime Video success
Whosoever owns the platform owns the algorithms and can pretty much dictate what succeeds by...
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Paid Music Streaming Adds Half a Billion Users in a Decade
Streaming accounted for 67 percent of global recorded music revenues last year, as the number of...
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UK – Digital publisher Bookouture has “more than trebled in turnover over the past five years”
No matter how much we’re told ebooks are yesterday’s news, the format just keeps on...
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HarperCollins adds “high-demand” titles to OverDrive Max
OverDrive Max is the fastest growing of OverDrive’s six access models due to its increased...
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