Category: ebook subscription services
Kindle Unlimited Has Paid Out $2.58 Billion To Self-Publishers Since 2020. Meanwhile We Panic About Four Million New Books
KU has paid $2.58 billion to self-publishers since 2020 — a 107% increase. Now four million books in 2025 has the industry panicking. TNPS runs the numbers and asks who, exactly, the problem is for.
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Storytel. Spotify. Now Audible. Audio, Text, and the Physical Book Slowly Converge
Audible, Spotify, and Storytel are collapsing the boundaries between audio and text. What it means for rights, royalties, AI — and the reader who never reads.
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OverDrive Libraries Clock 820 Million Downloads. 379 Million Were Ebooks. Kindle Unlimited Paid Out $689.9 Million To Self-Publishers
OverDrive 379 m ebook loans + $700 m KU payouts expose the “ebook plateau” myth—self-publishers quietly dominate digital reading.
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Estonia Launch Imminent. Storytel is Back in the Global Subscription Game!
Now it’s back. Estonia next month and 6-8 further new markets in the next few years.
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Legacy TV Consumption Falls. Streaming TV Rises. Lessons For Book Publishers From Streaming’s Success
Put simply, publishing needs to move with the times. And of course it will, eventually. The history of publishing is the history of active resistance, passive acceptance and eventual embrace.
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A decade of unlimited ebook subscription. $3.5 billion paid to self-publishers
Markus, that deadline is almost up. If you wish, I can get the kids at school to make you a The End Is Nigh sandwich board so you can walk the streets of Manhattan outside PRH like Bruce Willis in Die Hard Whatever-Number-It-Was, and remind everyone just how dumb you were.
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TNPS forecasts annual Kindle Unlimited payout to self-publishers to hit $635 million this year
This year the July payout sets a new record (probably only until next month) with $55.5 million being shared.
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2024 on target to clock $1.2 billion in invisible ebook revenues as AAP reports decline
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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Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription paid out $49 million to self-pub authors and small presses in February
History suggests the payout will hover around the $49 million per month mark during H1 and climb a...
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Kobo Plus unlimited subscription launches in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ireland and South Africa
Those of you desperately wanting to be offended or outraged by my TNPS op-eds will have to simmer...
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23 million subscribed to ad-supported Netflix. Book-streaming platforms should explore the option
Would a 30 second ad inserted every five or ten chapters really be more disruptive than a knock at...
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In 2023 OverDrive’s digital library downloads alone were 86% of total US print sales, while Kindle Unlimited paid out $575 million
Per The Bookseller, reporting on Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market report for 2023, the...
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