Tag: audiobook subscription royalties

Netherlands – Award-Winning Audiobook, Author Gets 8.5 Cents a Listen: Who’s Really Responsible?

by Mark Williams | Feb 20, 2026 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Netherlands | 0 |

Dutch poet Lieke Marsman earned just €200 from 500,000 streaming minutes. But is the platform to blame — or the publishing contract upstream of it?

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Storytel Norway denies rumour it plans to pay publishers by the minute rather than a fixed rate per download

by Mark Williams | Nov 27, 2020 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Digital subscription, Europe, Global Publishing, Norway, Scandinavia | 0 |

The reality is that while the unlimited subscriber will of course consume more, the service...

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Storytel’s subscription royalties rose 6.4% in Q2. But is $0.20 per hour enough to keep publishers happy? Does the subscription model have a future?

by Mark Williams | Jul 20, 2019 | Audible, Audiobooks, Digital Audio, Global Publishing, Storytel, Sweden, The global book market | 0 |

At the start of this year Storytel changed its remuneration model for publishers, from a fixed...

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Storytel’s royalty model “rigged and manipulated.” Storm brews over Storytel’s privileged agreement with Bonnier

by Mark Williams | Sep 11, 2018 | Audiobooks, Digital Audio, ebook subscription services, Europe, Global Publishing, Publishing Brief, Publishing Controversies, Scandinavia, Storytel, Sweden, The global book market | 0 |

With Storytel under increasing pressure from rival operators in the Swedish audiobook arena two...

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