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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Category: Europe
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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Paris Book Fair gets new name. Gets new look. Gets rid of Reed Expo and the “tyranny of the square metre”
“We are no longer working on the model of Reed Expo: here, we offer the Champ de Mars and...
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Expect a price war in Norway’s streaming market as BookBeat finally launches, with more countries promised
BookBeat CEO Niclas Sandin, for all his bold ambitions and aspirations, has his hands tied by...
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UK audiobook revenue up 71% on 2019. Ebooks up 10%. Consumer print up 6%. Children’s digital up 26%. Digital consumer non-fiction up 30%
Given both Findaway and Audiobooks.com impact on the UK market; and given Spotify is already a...
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Kobo Plus unlimited subscription launches in 7th market, Italy, days after Australia and New Zealand launches
Kobo Plus claims to be “the first service in Italy to provide a combined reading and listening...
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