Storytel launches on schedule in Israel. Third new market of 2021 so far. 25 and counting…
Next in line for Storytel is the Indonesia launch, first projected last year. No timeline for that...
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Category: Digital Audio
Sweden’s Nextory confirms Norway launch for April/May
Three subscription services competing in a market smaller than London? But perhaps we are looking...
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Another nail in Screen Fatigue’s coffin as OverDrive clocks 430 million digital downloads in 2020
Print of course remains king, although bricks & mortar booksellers face existential challenges...
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Storytel India starts its fourth year by adding 9th language, Malayalam, to its India content portfolio
For now at least Storytel would appear to have the upper hand in the India audiobook market, while...
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OverDrive 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
As we all know ebooks are yesterday’s format thanks to screen fatigue and Netflix, and audiobook...
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Sweden’s Nextory launches in 7th market – the Netherlands – with 200,000 titles
The big question is what Shadi Bitar will do next, and if he will be willing to step outside the...
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Storytel Thailand launches on schedule. 22nd market. 4th in APAC. 18 further markets to come by 2023
As we say goodbye to 2020 it seems like the digital audiobook format, so much the darling of the...
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Sweden’s most popular audiobooks on BookBeat, Nextory and Storytel
What’s most interesting here for those of us outside Sweden is to compare the lists of the...
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Storytel Norway denies rumour it plans to pay publishers by the minute rather than a fixed rate per download
The reality is that while the unlimited subscriber will of course consume more, the service...
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As children’s audio booms in China, the OUP says “China is now one of our fastest-growing and most strategically important markets”
The Oxford University Press picked up 400,000 paying subscribers for an audio series offered on...
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Obama’s new book banned as an audiobook in Sweden – by PRH
To be clear, PRH has not banned the audiobook in Swedish outright, but without revenue from the...
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Nielsen survey shows UK audiobooks boom continues with 15.8% unit growth, but no, ebook reading is not on the slide
It’s worth comparing the £164 million ($215 million) Nielsen forecast for 2020 UK audiobook...
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