Category: Global Publishing
Storytel raises $96.5 million in new funding. A vote of confidence in the unlimited subscription model, not just the company
In a heavily oversubscribed surprise share issue late Thursday, Storytel raised SEK 948 million...
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While PRH sits on its subscription plans, another Nordic publisher launches its own subscription service
Last month we reported here on a Boktugg news item suggesting the world’s biggest trade...
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Subscription accounted for 48% of Sweden’s book sales in 2019 as print book sales fell. The tipping point nears
It also seemed so unlikely, even in 2015, ten years after Storytel was founded. Back then Storytel...
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YouScribe launches in Burkina Faso as African expansion continues. You can’t put the digital subscription genie back in the bottle
With over half a billion Africans online it was always just a matter of time before digital...
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Following an “incredible” 2019, Sweden’s Bookbeat preps fifth market with Denmark launch planned
There’s a widespread belief in the US publishing industry that micro-markets – that is...
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WhatsApp hits 2 billion users. Yet many publishers lament social media’s existence instead of embracing its possibilities
It’s an incredible number. Two billion. Two billion people around the world, that is, that...
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Yiddish edition of Harry Potter sells out first run in 48 hours
A 1,000 print run may seem tiny in some publishing communities, but in others it’s a demonstration...
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The biggest book fair in the world is an Arab event in Africa. 3.5 million visitors at Egypt’s Cairo International Book Fair. Publishers look the other way
Not that you’d know it reading the western publishing industry trade journals, but the Cairo...
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Taiwan’s international book fair the first major publishing casualty of the coronavirus
The Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE), Taiwan’s largest annual literary event, which...
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24Symbols is “live and growing” and “cash-flow positive”. The voluntary administration of parent company BestSharer “is not a liquidation process”
Earlier this week TNPS broke the news that BestSharer S.L., the parent company of Madrid-based...
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RBmedia announces “record-breaking growth.” RBMedia’s Audiobooks.com app exceeds 2 million downloads and 14 million hours of listening
RBmedia, owned by KKR, the hedge-fund management team in the process of acquiring RBMedia’s bigger...
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With face masks, the Taiwan Int. Comic Festival to go ahead. But the Taipei Int. Book Exhibition likely to be postponed as coronavirus 2019-nCoV spreads
Kao Shih-chuang, secretary-general of the Chinese Animation & Comic Publishers Association,...
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