Category: Digital subscription
How Crunchyroll Is Beating the Competition in Anime Streaming – Even Netflix
Harris’s in-depth report is well worth setting aside a long coffee break for, and publishers...
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UK – ITV Launching Kids Streamer, CITV to Shutter in Autumn. Publishers, wake up and smell the coffee
Many publishers will of course continue to limit the amount of content available through...
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Peppa Pig Launches on Disney+ in 19 New Markets / 25 Languages. Publishers, wake up and smell the streaming coffee
With PRH’s Markus Dohle moved on, the single biggest and most powerful opponent of book...
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Cornerstone to advertise a book on Netflix as 15% of all global internet traffic goes to the streaming giant. Publisher opportunities abound
We’ll have to wait and see whether publishers will be forward-thinking enough to take this...
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Exclusive – Storytel prepares an all-you-can-eat global roll-out
My August 2022 TNPS headline ran: “International expansion back on the agenda at Storytel....
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Is Storytel forecasting a $30 billion audio market by 2030?
Enter, stage right, Liza Vasileva, Storytel manager for Bulgaria, who...
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Uncounted by the APA, Nielsen et al, Kindle Unlimited paid out over a half billion dollars in 2022 – mostly to self-publishers
That’s up $72 million on 2021, at a time when the preferred mainstream publishing narrative is...
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Storytel returns to New Normal (post-Tellander, not post-Covid) predictability
I’m emboldened to optimism by Larcher and Team’s SVOD background, which by definition...
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Sweden – Nextory adds news and mags to its platform. “A completely natural step”
The venture, Nytell says, “is a completely natural step for us.” Which is of course...
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BookBeat abandons unlimited subscription. Launches in France. Attempts to revive UK presence
“Unlimited listening will not be available anymore.” – Niclas Sandin, BookBeat...
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As Spotify audiobooks launches in more à la carte markets, Kobo joins Audible in bucking the industry-imagined all-you-can-eat-is-history trend
Self-fulfilling prophecies are the new black in publishing. You may have heard the one about...
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Weeks before the busiest trading period of the year, and without waiting for the results, the Amazon axe continues to swing
The prospect of Amazon following its music route becomes all the stronger as Jassy runs out of...
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