One tenth of Sweden’s population now has an audiobook subscription
In the mature English-language markets, where unlimited subscription is still a dirty word,...
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Facebook abandons podcasts, but no the podcasting sky is not falling
One might think, in a world of real doom and gloom, death and destruction, that there was no need...
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Japan’s biggest audiobook service now offers a tandem unlimited and credit model to appeal to more consumers
At the consumer level the unlimited consumption model for a fixed monthly fee has enormous appeal,...
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Nextory’s 69% subscriber growth in Q1 may not be as impressive as at first appears
Nextory is said to be considering an IPO for the company, although in the light of recent...
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Romania’s streaming start-up Voxa targets EUR 1 million and international expansion in 2022
If Voxa can expand its markets following its current strategies of pursuing both public and...
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YouTube plans “tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts”
For book publishers the message should be clear – audiobooks are a major asset but podcasts...
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Substack poaches Patreon podcasts as it joins the race for a place in the paid podcasting arena
The one thing we can say with certainty is that paid-podcasting is here to stay, and is going to...
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Storytel launches in Indonesia with 150,000 titles – but is Storytel expansion now on hold?
Indriani Widyasari faces a challenge she could never have anticipated in January 2021 when she...
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Shakedown at Storytel: Tellander out as TNPS-predicted headwinds hit. A critical moment for global audiobook streaming as a subscription icon takes a back seat
In the publishing industry there are a handful of people who stand head and shoulders above the...
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Storytel’s Q4 royalties revealed, and yes, they were lower than a regular sale royalty. Here’s why that’s not such a big deal
The idea that there is, or could ever be, one set royalty for all formats is a fantasy perpetuated...
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Singapore, population 5.9 million, saw 8 million downloads from OverDrive in2021, equalling Los Angeles, and beaten only by Toronto as 121 libraries exceeded 1 million digital downloads
All told OverDrive saw 506 million downloads in 2021, mostly in North America, and of course none...
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Audiobook sales soared 93% on Taiwan’s Reedmoo in 2021
While audiobook demand increased 93%, per headline, this was actually beaten by both novels and...
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