Category: Digital subscription
Turkey the fastest-growing of Storytel’s 25 markets, up 112% in 2020. But can Storytel global revenue keep up with expectations?
Sweden charges $20 a month. Compare Turkey where charging $4.20 brings only 21% of the Sweden...
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Since Jan 2018 the Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service has paid out over $1 billion in royalties to indie authors
The invisible ebook market redux: the ebook market is bigger than we realise, and subscription...
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Nextory launches in 8th market, Norway, with 270,000 ebook and audiobook titles
Nextory is claiming to be the second largest digital books service in Norway and the only...
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Sesamy, Sweden’s antidote to subscription, pulls in $5 million for European expansion to fix a problem that doesn’t exist elsewhere
…Outside the Nordics digital books subscription is at best a sideshow right now, and mostly...
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Storytel Indonesia likely to launch in Q3 with little or no local-language content but a target audience of 196 million internet users
In other Storytel target markets (Bulgaria, Turkey, Israel) Storytel has been able to buy out...
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Spotify hits 158 million subscribers in Q1. MAU’s reach 356 million. Publishers continue to struggle with the idea consumers want subscription
Just how many music, film and other subscription services are authors and publishers using daily...
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Apple’s podcast subscription service will pay creators 70% rising to 85% of creator-set subscription price
With each passing day the digital subscription model engrains itself more and more in the world’s...
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BookBeat Q1 revenue up 45% YOY. Subscribers up 66%. The runaway digital subscription train shows no sign of slowing
“We have never experienced such a high influx of new users at the beginning of a year as in 2021”...
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Be afraid. Be just a tiny bit afraid. TikTok owner ByteDance targets 3-fold growth in 2021
One thing we all need to understand is that AI-produced content doesn’t have to be perfect to be...
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Sweden’s Nextory subscribers grew 61% YoY in Q1. Finland users double
Currently in seven markets (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and...
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Storytel Q1 streaming revenue and subscriber growth “in line with” forecast, but are the headwinds beginning to be felt?
But it is (just one) example of the sort of headwinds Storytel will increasingly face in the...
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Why Scribd could match Storytel’s international growth were it to get serious
The issue is not if, but when publishers embrace subscription wholesale, and which players they...
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