Category: ebook subscription services
Turkey the fastest-growing of Storytel’s 25 markets, up 112% in 2020. But can Storytel global revenue keep up with expectations?
Sweden charges $20 a month. Compare Turkey where charging $4.20 brings only 21% of the Sweden...
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Since Jan 2018 the Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service has paid out over $1 billion in royalties to indie authors
The invisible ebook market redux: the ebook market is bigger than we realise, and subscription...
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USA’s AAP numbers shows print and digital formats all doing well, but the digital numbers only tell a partial story
And then there’s ebooks, where we can safely say the AAP numbers are at best indicative, but miss...
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Nextory confirms Q2 launch in Norway. Partners with Aschehoug
With $26 million in new funding in 2020 we are now seeing the first stages of Nextory’s 2021...
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Draft2Digital drops a distribution outlet as 24Symbols admits to “cash stability issues”, but don’t write off 24Symbols just yet
“We do indeed have some cash stability issues, and for this reason Draft2Digital decided to remove...
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Sweden’s Nextory confirms Norway launch for April/May
Three subscription services competing in a market smaller than London? But perhaps we are looking...
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Sweden’s BookBeat launches ebook app as it sees 75% increase in ebook reading in 2020. Storytel Turkey adds ebooks in Turkish
Both listening and reading are increasing rapidly in all markets where Bookbeat is active, and in...
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Simon & Schuster add 42,000 English-language titles to France-based subscription service Youboox
Penguin Random House, awaiting regulatory approval to acquire Simon & Schuster, earlier this...
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Sweden’s Nextory launches in 7th market – the Netherlands – with 200,000 titles
The big question is what Shadi Bitar will do next, and if he will be willing to step outside the...
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Storytel Thailand launches on schedule. 22nd market. 4th in APAC. 18 further markets to come by 2023
As we say goodbye to 2020 it seems like the digital audiobook format, so much the darling of the...
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Quibi’s failure is not a sign of impending doom for digital books subscription. Just the opposite
If the whole point of Quibi was to offer consumers ten-minute video breaks in their busy lives in...
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Sweden sees book sales rise by 7.4% value and 20% volume this year, led by digital subscription (+32%). Pre-Christmas, 60% of consumption is now digital
Sölve Dahlgren: “Can regular sales channels make up their losses and thereby increase book sales...
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