Category: Ebooks
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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Digital books streaming service YouScribe on target for 300k subscribers by end 2019. Equals Storytel’s non-Nordic reach in first year – in Africa
When we think of digital books subscription services it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture...
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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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NetGalley Advanced arrives in UK, France and Germany nine months after US launch
When it comes to getting new books noticed in the digital age, advance copies sent out to trusted...
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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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Audible UK doubles profit as audiobook sales slow in 2018. But claims the ebook bubble has burst is just wishful thinking from the UK Booksellers Association
After a 47% increase in sales in 2017, Amazon-owned Audible UK saw a rise in sales of only 38% in...
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Scholastic adds its children’s and YA list to the OverDrive digital library catalogue
Scholastic has boosted Rakuten OverDrive’s schools ebook catalogue with Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man and a...
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Digital now delivers 56% of revenue for car manual publisher Haynes
If we’ve ever been bold enough to try some car maintenance we’ve probably has an oil-covered...
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Publish MENA – the digital advantage #4 is hitting inboxes this weekend
The joint StreetLib-TNPS bi-weekly newsletter Publish MENA – the digital...
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Storytel finally launches in Brazil, hard on the heels of the low-key Confama partnership in Colombia
Later than anticipated, Storytel finally launches in Brazil in what it its second full country...
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