Category: ebook subscription services
It’s now five years since Amazon last opened a Kindle store. Whatever happened to the Bezos dream “to have every book, ever published, in any language available for Kindle customers”?
November 12 marked the fifth anniversary of the Kindle Netherlands store, and five full years...
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Storytel Q3 results show streaming revenue up 43%, subscribers up 41%. Comfortably on target to pass 1.1 million subscribers by year’s end
The latest Storytel numbers are out and it’s another report of impressive double-figure growth in...
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Publish Global, the StreetLib-TNPS B2B newsletter for self-publishers, is hitting inboxes this weekend
The first issue of the new B2B newsletter for self-publishers, Publish Global – serious...
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Poland: a digital book market snapshot to mark the Kraków International Book Fair
The 23rd Kraków International Book Fair is underway. It’s one of the biggest publishing industry...
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Million-subscriber digital books service Scribd offers enhanced localised presence in Mexico, with 60,000 Spanish titles
Despite being one of the oldest subscription services for digital books, Scribd rarely makes the...
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Storytel juggles finances with a $50 million credit facility to pursue “aggressive investments” and “strategic expansion”
Barely had the ink dried on news of Storytel’s impressive Q3 results than Jonas Tellander is...
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Nextory launches in Denmark. Two more markets expected before year’s end
We’ve known since before summer that Denmark would be Nextory’s fourth market launch, and CEO...
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Storytel adds 127k subscribers in Q3. Revenue up 43% in the 4th streaming success story this month. US and UK publishers look the other way
The silence is deafening. While Bookbeat, Nextory, YouScribe and now Storytel and Ubook deliver...
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Findaway adds BajaLibros, Leamos, Bidi and Fuuze as audiobook distribution partners
It wasn’t so long ago that independent authors who wanted to get a piece of the audiobook...
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Nextory reports 130% growth. Bookbeat 127% growth. Kobo launches in Sweden. “Digital books are hotter than ever”
Any thoughts that maybe the Scandinavian love affair with digital books might be drawing to a...
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Could HarperCollins UK’s experiment with Kindle Unlimited pave the way to a Storytel UK launch in the new decade?
With an unspecified number of “hundreds” of backlist titles being put into Amazon’s Kindle...
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Sweden’s Storytel becomes Finland’s third largest publisher with acquisition of Gummerus Kustannus
Storytel is best known globally for its digital books streaming service, now covering eighteen...
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