Category: Digital subscription
Digital books and unlimited subscription up, print down in Sweden – publishers elsewhere will want to look away
The growth of subscription services is slowing down – at least in percentage terms, as the...
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With the acquisition of Youboox, Nextory blazes a trail beyond Storytel’s shadow
The big story here is not catalogue size but rather the seismic shift in Nextory’s expansion...
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Norway’s unlimited subscription market was worth $50 million in 2020 – in a country of just 5.4 million people
With just 5.4 million people Norway is significantly smaller than cities like London or New York,...
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Russia audiobook market grows 4X in 2021. “The next five years will be the most successful in the history of audiobooks” – Boris Makarenkov, Storytel RU
The subscription-retail balance suggests that, when price friction is eliminated, audiobook...
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BookBeat Q3 subscribers up 47% percent. Revenue up 39% Q1-Q3. Targets 600,000 paying users by end 2021
“We saw strong growth before the pandemic, we saw strong growth during the pandemic and now...
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Storytel Q3 sees Non-Nordic subscribers rise 53%, streaming revenue up 42%. Now fields a catalogue of 700,000 titles
But the wider Storytel markets, while not yet delivering at the Nordics level, is where the...
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Nextory subscribers up 68% in Q3, with strong growth in new markets Norway and Spain
Further European expansion in 2020 is a given, but the litmus test for Nextory’s role as pretender...
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Amazon-owned Audible’s unlimited subscription now in five markets. And counting…
But can anyone seriously imagine PRH taking the moral high ground and pulling its titles when (not...
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Storytel and Tocalivros partner to boost the Brazil audiobook market
Sweden’s Storytel and Brazil’s Tocalivros have decided that partnering for market share might be a...
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Romania’s digital publishing steps up a gear with two new audiobook subscription services and new investment in online book retail
As Pandemic Y2 prepares to silently extend to Pandemic Y3 it becomes more and more likely...
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Amazon’s inexorable shift to unlimited subscription is creeping up on complacent publishers looking the other way
The slippery slope has been greased. Audible Plus US and UK are going to outperform the regular...
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Parallel Paths: Kobo Plus Canada subscription service marks first year, confirms imminent Portugal launch as ViacomCBS tops 42 million global subscribers
The bigger picture here is the slow but inexorable spread of the subscription model across the...
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