Tag: audiobooks
Adapt and Thrive: AI Translation is the Game-Changer’s Game-Changer
Imagine for one moment if, somehow, the Bertelsmann buy-out of Simon & Schuster had been successful and the ever-tuxedoed Count Dohle was still emerging from the grave each night to dictate PRH policy. There would have been no Spotify deal and no unprecedented surge in the fortunes of the audiobook industry.
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In 2023 OverDrive’s digital library downloads alone were 86% of total US print sales, while Kindle Unlimited paid out $575 million
Per The Bookseller, reporting on Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market report for 2023, the...
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152 library systems in seven countries surpassed one million digital checkouts – OverDrive
In 2023, a record-setting 152 library systems in seven countries surpassed one million digital checkouts.
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Authors demand Spotify tell them the deal details their publishers are keeping quiet about
What Spotify and others did was to expand the (music) market beyond the wildest dreams of music artists and publishers.
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Revenue up, profits down at Audible UK amid record “sales”
If this worrying imbalance between rising revenues and falling profits is also a feature at...
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TNPS on LinkedIn – Round-Up #2
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it...
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Exclusive – Storytel prepares an all-you-can-eat global roll-out
My August 2022 TNPS headline ran: “International expansion back on the agenda at Storytel....
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BookBeat abandons unlimited subscription. Launches in France. Attempts to revive UK presence
“Unlimited listening will not be available anymore.” – Niclas Sandin, BookBeat...
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FYI – Frankfurt Buchmesse Professional Programme 2022: Masterclasses on TikTok, Audiobooks and Distribution
From the Buchmesse newsletter Using AI to create audiobooks, communicating with the fan community...
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Hedge-fund owned audiobook producer RBMedia’s “record-breaking 2021 performance”
Lately we’ve seen KKR and rival Elliott (the proud owner of both Waterstones and Barnes &...
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Hedge-fund owned RBMedia launches in German-language audiobook markets
One should not be too surprised if KKR sells RBMedia Verlag and its imprints to Storytel in...
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Amazon’s inexorable shift to unlimited subscription is creeping up on complacent publishers looking the other way
The slippery slope has been greased. Audible Plus US and UK are going to outperform the regular...
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