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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Category: Digital Audio
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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Storytel beats forecast for Q2, taking subscribers to 1.23 million and Q2 revenue up 43% YOY. Announces plans for Thailand and Indonesia
Storytel remains predictable, but gratifyingly so, as it beats Q2 forecasts and announces new...
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Sweden’s BookBeat sees 82% revenue rise in Q2. Launches in Poland. Targets 400,000 subscribers and $50 million revenue in 2020
US and UK publishers will be watching nervously as the Q2 streaming service results emerge, and...
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Sweden’s Nextory grows revenue 95% in Q2. 58% new user growth in June
While many publishers remain wary of the unlimited subscription model for digital books, consumers...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter for serious self-publishers, Publish Global # 5, is now out
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for the serious self-publisher with...
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US audiobook market value up 16% to $1.2bn in 2019. Unit sales also up 16%. But how much does the delivery model hold back the format?
Touting the fact that the US audiobook market had seen double-digit growth for the eighth...
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Arabic audio subscription service Kitab Sawti sees subscribers double during regional lockdown. Partners with Careem in Saudi Arabia
With 31 million people online the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the second largest Arabic digital...
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Sweden: Bookbeat’s new data-sharing tool could be a watershed moment for subscription publishing
We’ve long known the attraction of digital subscription books to consumers. But the benefits for...
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TikTok owner ByteDance moves into the 560 million listener $1.1 bn China audiobook arena with AI narrations
When it comes to AI-narrated audio the publishing industry has a relaxed, even complacent stance....
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Sweden’s digital audio subscription market will shrink 25%, says a Mediavision survey
It’s been so long since we heard anything negative about Sweden’s experiment as the world’s...
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