With two Big 5 publishers now embracing AI for audio, and others ready to follow, a flood of new content will simultaneously offer consumers more choice at better prices while also competing for listening hours. Embracing subscription as an outlet for this new content is just common sense.
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This hybrid approach, combining subscription and ad-supported models, is expected to provide...
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The total sum paid out to self-publishers and small presses so far this year is $205.8 million, putting ebook unlimited subscription service Kindle Unlimited on target to pay out $620m in royalties in 2024.
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All indications so far are that Spotify’s audiobook offering is expanding the market in the...
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The Dutch experience, and the emerging picture from Spotify, shows very clearly there is room for all models, and that publishers and authors that eschew one or the other are simply missing out.
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Those of you desperately wanting to be offended or outraged by my TNPS op-eds will have to simmer...
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There is no “free” involved. You pay money and then get a choice of content and...
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How many Audible subscribers, handing over a fixed sum each month for one single audiobook, also subscribe to Spotify for their music fix?
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Would a 30 second ad inserted every five or ten chapters really be more disruptive than a knock at...
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Per The Bookseller, reporting on Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market report for 2023, the...
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What Spotify and others did was to expand the (music) market beyond the wildest dreams of music artists and publishers.
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Consumers want more content choice, not more platform choice. Among the big digital streaming...
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