BookBeat launches in Spain and Italy. Storytel and Nextory report notional growth amid acquisition speculation
Any acquisition of Storytel is for now just speculation, but there are only two likely contenders...
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Category: Spain
Spain’s Madrid Book Fair takes an 80% visitor hit but only drops 10% in book sales amid the Pandemic
Maybe the event organisers need to look at what they were doing right this year to see such...
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Nextory launches in 9th market, Spain. Re-branded Nubico platform goes head to head with Storytel and Audible
Of more interest is what this launch may mean for Nextory’s wider global ambitions, especially in...
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Nextory could leap Storytel and Audible to be Spain’s #1 subscription service this year after Nubico acquisition
With the Nubico acquisition the rivalry between Sweden’s Storytel and Nextory just moved to a...
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Mark Williams At Large: Perspectives on the Publishing Week
As the pandemic enters its second wave, Big 5 publisher Macmillan starts hiring again, raises its...
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The dam has been breached! Amazon’s Audible launches an unlimited audiobook subscription service in Spain. How long now before Audible rolls out the model in the US?
As and when Amazon decides that Audible shall become an unlimited audiobook subscription service...
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Spain’s eLiburutegia, the digital books arm of the Basque Public Reading Network, triples ebook loans during 2020
It may not be the biggest digital library system in Spain, but it has a dedicated audience of...
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Publishers globally need to understand the new normal now evolving, and to develop post-pandemic “go wide” strategies that may at first glance seem counter-intuitive
It is estimated at least 50,000 readers in Spain have transitioned to digital reading – ebooks and...
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Madrid and Tunis book fairs postponed. New York BISG postponed. Book Expo America looks the other way
Europe’s biggest book fair has been pushed back from summer until October as the coronavirus...
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Denmark’s Saga Egmont becomes Spain’s largest audiobook publisher on Audiomol-catalogue acquisition
Copenhagen-based Saga Egmont famously insists that all publisher’s books must be present in...
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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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The future of 24Symbols in question as parent company BestSharer goes into administration
This is a breaking news story that we’ll try update as details come in, but TNPS has learned...
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