Storytel Nordics alone hits 1 million subscribers
Comprising Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland the Nordics is a region of five national...
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Category: Europe
The SAGA Egmont – Roca Editorial audiobook partnership demonstrates the digital advantage for publishers everywhere
The bigger picture here is how a publisher in Denmark, a “minor-language” country with a...
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Gyldendal sees 50% of revenue from digital as Norway’s publishing industry rises 12.6% in H2 2020
Including education, Gyldendal has over 3 million digital users – this, remember, in a country of...
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Digital books subscription fever continues. Nextory subscribers up 60%. Storytel hits 1.6 million
It would be interesting to know how many of the top-level decision-makers in Big Pub who have...
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“The export potential of Ukrainian book publishing is between US$80 million and $100 million”
In mapping the Global New Renaissance we need to chart both the export and import potential of any...
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Nextory launches in 8th market, Norway, with 270,000 ebook and audiobook titles
Nextory is claiming to be the second largest digital books service in Norway and the only...
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Sesamy, Sweden’s antidote to subscription, pulls in $5 million for European expansion to fix a problem that doesn’t exist elsewhere
…Outside the Nordics digital books subscription is at best a sideshow right now, and mostly...
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London Book Fair won’t refund exhibitors this year as it admits defeat and pivots to digital. Will publishers ever trust LBF again?
In other words, we haven’t a clue yet what we’ll be doing, because we are only doing this digital...
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Sweden’s Nextory subscribers grew 61% YoY in Q1. Finland users double
Currently in seven markets (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and...
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Bologna drops in-person event. Strengthens its digital fair. LBF keeps publishers guessing
One has to wonder if the London Book Fair as we know it even has a future, or if, like it’s US...
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Déjà vu as London Book Fair descends into farce for second year running. Time to put 2021 on hold, ditch Reed Exhibitions, and think about the New Normal
LBF21 might just manage to hobble forward this summer, but the right thing to do is to put it out...
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UK: 257 m. print books sold, 95 m. ebooks sold, 23 m. audiobooks sold in 2020, a record year amid bookstore closures
Just maybe deliberately overpriced ebooks will become a thing of the past as publishers examine...
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