Category: Europe
Do UK 18-24 year-olds have secret access to Spotify’s not-yet-launched audiobooks platform?
“18 to 24-year-olds were found to be more likely to use non-Amazon retailers compared to...
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Frankfurt pulls in only 60% of its pre-Covid traffic as economic realities of the New Normal hit home
No question in-person trade events have a future, and will continue to be important for the...
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UK – Publishers ‘on brink of collapse’ as US-owned UK distributor struggles
Publishers have warned some firms are being driven to “the brink of collapse” by ongoing issues...
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Romania – Cărturești bookstore chain invests 450,000 euros in AudioTribe
The Cărturești cash injection will allow AudioTribe to expand its four audio studios with a target...
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Nextory’s 69% subscriber growth in Q1 may not be as impressive as at first appears
Nextory is said to be considering an IPO for the company, although in the light of recent...
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Romania’s streaming start-up Voxa targets EUR 1 million and international expansion in 2022
If Voxa can expand its markets following its current strategies of pursuing both public and...
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Bologna’s digital numbers set new records, but you could be forgiven for not realising
The BCBF website attracted 2 million views. There were 200,000 unique users signed in, of which...
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BookBeat launches in Belgium and Netherlands
Since the Q3 results announcement BookBeat has been uncharacteristically silent about its Q4 and...
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Germany’s Leipzig Book Fair will be in-person just 2 weeks after the expected peak in covid-19 cases
With Germany just having passed 10 million cases, and averaging over 200,000 new cases per day, it...
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“Nextory ex Youboox” – Nextory rebrands its French acquisition, but what does this mean for the global audiobook industry?
One significant difference between Nextory France and the other Nextory and Storytel markets is...
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Romania’s 6-event BookFest 2022 programme announced, subject to the pandemic’s whim
With 14 million of its 19 million population online one might think a digital fall-back plan would...
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Hedge-fund owned RBMedia launches in German-language audiobook markets
One should not be too surprised if KKR sells RBMedia Verlag and its imprints to Storytel in...
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