Category: Norway
Sweden’s Nextory confirms Norway launch for April/May
Three subscription services competing in a market smaller than London? But perhaps we are looking...
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Storytel Norway denies rumour it plans to pay publishers by the minute rather than a fixed rate per download
The reality is that while the unlimited subscriber will of course consume more, the service...
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Is Sweden’s Nextory being deliberately excluded from the Norway book market?
Is something rotten in the state of Norway? Just as it emerges the third largest Norwegian digital...
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Norway’s authors fight to be on more unlimited subscription platforms
Author Jørn Lier Horst moved to Strawberry publishing house Capitana, and went from having titles...
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Norway’s publishers face $50 million fine for price-fixing, but reject allegations as “completely absurd”
Norway’s competition authorities see abuse in a database used by the country’s publishers to track...
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IPA cancels Lillehammer World Congress in May. BEA says the show will go on as New York closes down
There could hardly be a starker contrast. The International Publishers Association cancels the...
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The TNPS Week In Review: January 5-11
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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Norwegian Writers Association urges authors to examine their contracts to ensure they are not locked out of subscription services
Are publishers guilty of limiting their authors’ reach? With the rise of publisher-owned...
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Digital now accounts for 23% of the Norwegian book market as book sales increase across the board, with print fiction up 42%
One of the elegant beauties of digital is that it drives interest in all books, not just the...
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India’s youngest librarian. Bookboats in Sweden, Norway and, sadly no longer, in Finland
We Start The Day Global today with a look at floating libraries in Scandinavia and a free public...
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With the “attention economy” the latest buzzword excuse for perceived falling book sales, how is it Scandinavia is seeing both video and book streaming rise simultaneously?
The rise and rise of audiobook and ebook subscription streaming across the Scandinavian countries...
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Is the Frankfurt Book Fair responsible for a 40% drop in Norwegian fiction sales in April?
Denmark’s publishing industry journal BogMarketed has an interesting take on plummeting fictions...
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