Category: Digital Audio
Sweden’s Nextory collects $6 million in new funding for European expansion amid “fantastic growth” in audiobook and ebook subscription
Already in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Nextory CEO Shadi Bitar has...
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Germany’s Bookwire grew sales by 35% in 2019. 140% growth in audio; ebooks up 24%
As a digital publishing company Frankfurt-based Bookwire, with offices in Madrid, Mexico City and...
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OverDrive prepares “digital content options” as the coronavirus crisis deepens in USA
With Mondadori leading the way in Italy, ODILO showing how it’s done in Spain, and the Association...
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UK to cut VAT on ebooks from December. A missed opportunity to help contain the coronavirus
In different circumstances it would be a huge cause for celebration. The same Tory government that...
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Denmark’s Saga Egmont becomes Spain’s largest audiobook publisher on Audiomol-catalogue acquisition
Copenhagen-based Saga Egmont famously insists that all publisher’s books must be present in...
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Sweden’s Norstedts Förlagsgrupp sees digital revenues up 41% in 2019, with 50% from digital and 25% of that from audio
Norstedts, one of Sweden’s largest publishing houses, had its best turnover since 2013 thanks to...
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Storytel raises $96.5 million in new funding. A vote of confidence in the unlimited subscription model, not just the company
In a heavily oversubscribed surprise share issue late Thursday, Storytel raised SEK 948 million...
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While PRH sits on its subscription plans, another Nordic publisher launches its own subscription service
Last month we reported here on a Boktugg news item suggesting the world’s biggest trade...
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RBmedia announces “record-breaking growth.” RBMedia’s Audiobooks.com app exceeds 2 million downloads and 14 million hours of listening
RBmedia, owned by KKR, the hedge-fund management team in the process of acquiring RBMedia’s bigger...
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The latest edition of the StreetLib-TNPS B2B newsletter Publish MENA is live
A major breakdown with the submarine cable connecting West Africa and Europe caused serious...
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The TNPS Week In Review: January 12-18
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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Penguin Random House pulls English-language titles from Storytel, Bookbeat and Nextory. Unhappy with terms? Or is a PRH streaming service launch imminent?
A few days ago it emerged PRH titles were disappearing from the Storytel, Nextory and Bookbeat...
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