Category: Digital Audio
Kobo Plus unlimited subscription launches in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ireland and South Africa
by Mark Williams | Mar 5, 2024 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Hong Kong, Ireland, South Africa, Taiwan | 0 |
Those of you desperately wanting to be offended or outraged by my TNPS op-eds will have to simmer...
Read MoreSeismic shift: Spotify bumps Apple. Rattles Audible. But no, Spotify audiobooks are not free
by Mark Williams | Feb 13, 2024 | Audible, Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Uncategorized | 0 |
There is no “free” involved. You pay money and then get a choice of content and...
Read MoreIs Spotify’s audiobook service already hurting Audible?
by Mark Williams | Jan 29, 2024 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Publishing Controversies | 0 |
How many Audible subscribers, handing over a fixed sum each month for one single audiobook, also subscribe to Spotify for their music fix?
Read MoreIn 2023 OverDrive’s digital library downloads alone were 86% of total US print sales, while Kindle Unlimited paid out $575 million
by Mark Williams | Jan 13, 2024 | Digital Audio, Digital Libraries, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services | 0 |
Per The Bookseller, reporting on Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market report for 2023, the...
Read MoreAuthors demand Spotify tell them the deal details their publishers are keeping quiet about
by Mark Williams | Jan 6, 2024 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription | 0 |
What Spotify and others did was to expand the (music) market beyond the wildest dreams of music artists and publishers.
Read MoreStorytel Italy subscribers up 20% in 2023
by Mark Williams | Dec 22, 2023 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Italy | 0 |
No subscriber numbers, but confirmation that Storytel Italy, which launched in 2018, still has its...
Read MoreTurkey’s Competition Authority concludes investigation into Storytel Turkey activities
by Mark Williams | Dec 14, 2023 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Storytel, Turkey | 0 |
Storytel TR was given the option to propose and implement revised practices while the...
Read MoreBowker partners with StreetLib to offer global ebook and audiobook distribution
by Mark Williams | Oct 21, 2023 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Ebooks, Self-Publishing | 0 |
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a StreetLib...
Read MoreBookBeat Finland hits 300,000 subscribers as new opportunities open up for BookBeat UK
by Mark Williams | Oct 15, 2023 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Finland, UK | 0 |
Good luck with that, Niclas, given that the UK Society of Authors has already launched an attack...
Read MoreNextory’s continuing shift from growth to profitability
by Mark Williams | Sep 17, 2023 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription | 0 |
The combined internet user base of the four Nordic countries amounts to 16.2 million. The combined...
Read MoreUS Music market share by volume, by genre. Lessons for book publishers
by Mark Williams | Aug 29, 2023 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, Ebooks, Global Publishing, USA | 1 |
So what happened between 2015-2016 that recalibrated the US music industry and convinced American...
Read MoreTV streaming reminds us of the power of the backlist. Yet publishers still look the other way
by Mark Williams | Aug 20, 2023 | Digital Audio, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, USA | 0 |
Because alongside reach and discoverability, data is the big benefit of digital subscription, and...
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