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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Category: Norway
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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Norwegian online bookstore wins Finland’s Dragon’s Den variation Polar Bear Pitching with an icy proposition
Most people reading this will know of the TV series Dragon’s Den, or Shark Tank, or any of thirty...
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Storytel wants to reduce visibility on hot romance and erotica because they are too popular
Cupido is a Norwegian site dedicated to all things sensual, and now that includes podcasts. This...
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Storytel partners with airline and ups its reading game with Ztory buy out. Spotify gets into podcasts. Others discuss digital fatigue
It sometimes seems like the US book market and the rest of the world are on different planets....
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In case you missed it – The past week on TNPS
The past seven days on TNPS – here’s what you missed. Dubai Audio Library “the...
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As Norway bucks the Scandinavian trend, preferring print bought offline, TNPS asks: Do the smaller book markets really have anything to fear from Amazon?
A new report, Art in Numbers, from the Norwegian Cultural Council observes 88% of fiction and 75%...
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Evidence mounts for an Amazon Sweden launch this year, but no sign publishers need worry yet
Amazon has been in talks with a number of Swedish logistics companies, including PostNord, as it...
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Shortlist of 5 announced for World’s Best New Library
35 libraries from 19 countries were in the running, but just five have been shortlisted for the...
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Warsaw, Minsk, Bucharest, Bratislava, Lillehammer, St. Petersburg, Dublin, Kiev, Madrid, Lisbon – the European book fair season is under way
Although we have had significant European book fairs already this year, it is in May that things...
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