Judge rejects Audible’s and publishers’ request to keep Captions settlement secret
Per previous commentary on this topic, the US lawsuit between Amazon-owned Audible and a group of...
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Category: USA
New York Times hits 5 million subscribers and $800 million in digital revenue. Targets 10 million subscribers by 2025. You can’t put the subscription genie back in the bottle
With $800 million in digital revenue last year, the New York Times also topped 5 million...
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Amazon’s Audible “prohibited from creating, generating, reproducing, modifying, distributing, publishing, or displaying” captions without publisher agreement
While this is a US story and not one that would normally be within the remit of TNPS to cover, the...
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Digital Book World bans Macmillan from September DBW conference as US libraries dispute escalates
Here at TNPS I’ve not covered the Macmillan dispute with libraries in any depth, as the...
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The TNPS Week In Review: January 19-25
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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Visiting public libraries in the USA is twice as popular as going to the movies, despite record-breaking digital library downloads
With an average 10.5 trips to the library in 2019, the latest Gallup poll tells us library visits...
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Amazon’s ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited paid out over a quarter billion dollars in royalties to KDP authors for second year running
It’s been a good year for print and a great year for audiobooks. Ebooks, not so much. Or so we...
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Penguin Random House pulls English-language titles from Storytel, Bookbeat and Nextory. Unhappy with terms? Or is a PRH streaming service launch imminent?
A few days ago it emerged PRH titles were disappearing from the Storytel, Nextory and Bookbeat...
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OverDrive’s reading app Sora, in 23,000 schools globally, almost doubled student reading time in 2019
The secret sauce of the Sora children’s reading app from OverDrive is that is doesn’t just...
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Amazon’s Audible and US audiobook publishers reach settlement in captions dispute
Not much detail on this story as yet, but it seems Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook service,...
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OverDrive demolishes the nonsense that readers have abandoned ebooks for audiobooks as 2019 breaks records for both, adding to uncertainty about Kobo's future
We’ve heard it so many times its hard not to start believing it. Screen fatigue is driving...
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The TNPS Festive Season Weeks in Review
For those who didn’t get the chance to open any or all the regular email notifications from TNPS,...
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