Category: Digital Audio
Storytel Sweden hits 400,000 subscribers amid 1 million globally, but confusion surrounds the number of Storytel markets. Is it 18 or 19?
Storytel this week announced it has crossed the 400,000 subscriber mark on its home territory,...
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Findaway adds Bookmate, Bookbeat, Axiell, AudiobooksNow and Bokus Play to its distribution portfolio
Findaway was already the biggest player in the audiobooks aggregator arena in September, but this...
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Poland: a digital book market snapshot to mark the Kraków International Book Fair
The 23rd Kraków International Book Fair is underway. It’s one of the biggest publishing industry...
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Dutch publishing logistics firm CB acquires the country’s leading audiobook firm Luisterhuis
Largely unknown in the wider world, CB is a logistics company that, among other things...
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StreetLib adds podcasts to its armoury. Partners with Voxnest’s N.Y. podcasting platform Spreaker
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a...
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RH Business Relaunch; VAT on Russian ebooks; Amazon’s Kindle for Kids; Brexit fears; Random House Graphic; Ebooks and Libraries; Nobel Prize Controversy
Industry News Round-Up is a selection of some of the most interesting stories emerging from the...
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Storytel juggles finances with a $50 million credit facility to pursue “aggressive investments” and “strategic expansion”
Barely had the ink dried on news of Storytel’s impressive Q3 results than Jonas Tellander is...
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Brazil’s audiotainment streaming service Ubook gets $5 million new funding prior to IPO. Plans new acquisitions spree and Oceania expansion
Describing itself as Latin America’s largest streaming audiotainment platform, Ubook has just...
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Nextory launches in Denmark. Two more markets expected before year’s end
We’ve known since before summer that Denmark would be Nextory’s fourth market launch, and CEO...
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Storytel adds 127k subscribers in Q3. Revenue up 43% in the 4th streaming success story this month. US and UK publishers look the other way
The silence is deafening. While Bookbeat, Nextory, YouScribe and now Storytel and Ubook deliver...
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Findaway adds BajaLibros, Leamos, Bidi and Fuuze as audiobook distribution partners
It wasn’t so long ago that independent authors who wanted to get a piece of the audiobook...
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Nextory reports 130% growth. Bookbeat 127% growth. Kobo launches in Sweden. “Digital books are hotter than ever”
Any thoughts that maybe the Scandinavian love affair with digital books might be drawing to a...
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